Ali and Paterson first met on November 22, 1965, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Winchester, Nevada. It was a fight that “The Greatest” bossed, winning by twelfth-round TKO. It was a virtuoso ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. “He boxed, he clowned, he lectured and he performed magic,” Gazette Sports Editor Mike Chapman wrote ...

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 ...

Somewhere within the dreadful fog that comes with Alzheimer’s, I hope that Floyd Patterson considered that he had finally beaten his toughest opponent. Not Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali or Ingemar ...

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Floyd Patterson, an undersized champion who avenged an embarrassing loss to Ingemar Johansson by beating him a year later to become the first boxer to regain the heavyweight title, died Thursday. He ...