The old boxer answers the door of his south suburban home with a smile and a firm handshake and he moves across his living room and sits in a chair and tells stories about when he was young and strong ...

Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston face off in a WBA/WBC World Heavyweight fight in this Miami Herald archive photo By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Fifty years ago, an upstart American ...

When a young boxer named Cassius Clay walked into the ring on Miami Beach; few gave him much of a chance against the heavyweight champion of the world. By the time he left the ring, Cassius Clay was ...

Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay on Jan. 17, 1942, is regarded as one of the top professional boxers of all time. He was an activist who spent his life fighting for and enacting change. Ali went by his ...

Cassius Clay was known as the greatest because of how he dominated in the boxing ring, but it was his personal and spiritual transformation that led him to become the icon known as Muhammad Ali. A new ...

In one of the most bizarre triumphs since P.T. Barnum had two of his midgets ceremonially married at Greenwich Village’s Grace Episcopal Church, in the middle of the nineteenth century, the fight game ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, Sept. 12, 1966. It is republished unedited in its original form. FRANKFURT, Germany — Cassius Clay, surprised and stung in the ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 25, 1964, a 22-year-old Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, became world heavyweight boxing champion for the first ...

The premier New Jersey production of And in This Corner … Cassius Clay, Idris Goodwin's drama about the rise of the boxer who became Muhammad Ali, will mark the final round of The Theater Project's ...

American boxing promoter Don King remembers boxing legend Muhammad Ali. CBS News correspondent David Begnaud spoke with King before the memorial service in Louisville about the life of Ali. King also ...