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 ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) Former heavyweight champion Ken Norton, who beat Muhammad Ali and later lost a controversial decision to him in Yankee Stadium, died Wednesday at a local care facility. He was 70. Ken ...

Ken Norton, the 70s heavyweight powerhouse best known for handing Muhammad Ali one of his few losses, died Wednesday at a veterans medical facility where he had been recovering from a stroke. He was ...

In the mid 1960s, there was a lot of talk about a great fighter out of the amateur ranks named Ken Norton. Some of the guys on the 1968 Olympic team knew him from the armed forces team, and they spoke ...

* Sept. 5, 1960 - Wins the Olympic light-heavyweight gold medal in Rome in a unanimous decision over Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland. * Oct. 29, 1960 - Makes his professional debut in his hometown of ...

REUTERS - Important bouts in the career of former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali: * Sept. 5, 1960 - Wins the Olympic light-heavyweight gold medal in Rome in a unanimous decision over Zbigniew ...