When Oleksandr Usyk faces off against Rico Verhoeven in front of the great Pyramids in Giza, he will do something no heavyweight champion has done in fifty years.

Muhammad Ali is considered to be the greatest boxer in history. He was fierce both on and off the boxing ring, as his activism was a defining force in the 20th century. On the ring, Ali became the ...

Ali competed for the final time in 1981, hanging up the gloves with a record of 56 wins from 61 fights. He became world heavyweight champion for the first time in 1964, but it was a man who last ...

CARDIFF, Wales — Joe Bugner, a heavyweight who took boxing greats Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier the distance in fights in the 1970s, has died. He was 75. The death of the Hungary-born Bugner, who was ...

This fan vote to decide boxing’s greatest heavyweight was not even close. Boxing is not short on legendary figures from throughout its history, and a whole host of them came from the sport’s longtime ...

Muhammad Ali(then Cassius Clay) knocked out Sonny Liston, who nagged by a shoulder injury, threw in the towel before the ...

Joe Bugner, a former heavyweight boxer who fought Muhammad Ali twice in his career, has died. Bugner was 75 years old. "It is with great sadness that the Former British, European Commonwealth ...

A lineal champion in boxing is the fighter who beat the previous reigning champion, or top fighter, in a division. There is no set criteria for when a lineal champion is first named, but it is a title ...

CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — Joe Bugner, a heavyweight who took boxing greats Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier the distance in fights in the 1970s, has died. He was 75. The death of the Hungary-born Bugner, who ...