Clay won the 1960 Olympic gold medal in Rome as a light heavyweight, turned professional immediately, and tore through the heavyweight division. By February 1964, he had a 19-0 record and a title shot ...

Sugar Ramos, a Cuban featherweight boxing champion whose fists led to two ring deaths — one inspiring a Bob Dylan song — died Sept. 3 in Mexico City. He was 75. He had cancer, the World Boxing Council ...

Wilbert McClure's boxing gold medal at the Rome 1960 Olympics will be among items up for sale at the auction ©RRAuction The medal, set in its original cast bronze olive leaf chain, features Nike, the ...

Saturday night was a chance to go back to the good ol' days with championship boxing on network television. In the 1950s and 1960s, boxing on prime-time network television regularly drew a 20-25 ...