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He won the World Boxing Association title in 1983, became a symbol of racial comity and showed a surprising gentleness in public. Gerrie Coetzee, a South African heavyweight boxing champion [...]

He defended Donald Trump, Sean Combs, Bono, the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels and mob figures with wit and verve. Jay Goldberg, a former boxer from Brooklyn who nimbly transmuted [...]

He won 68 bouts by knockout and fought some of the biggest names in boxing. He lasted 15 rounds against Muhammad Ali. But he never won a championship. Earnie Shavers, [...]

He was a North End hero ''not because he's the greatest prizefighter in the world, which he isn't,'' a sportswriter wrote, ''but because he's so damned courageous.'' Tony De Marco, [...]

One of the most formidable boxers of his era, Hagler defended his title 12 times before losing to Sugar Ray Leonard in a 1987 split decision. Marvelous Marvin Hagler, who [...]

He was an Olympic champion with few pro fights under his belt when he surprised the world by beating the champ in 1978. Things did not go smoothly after that. [...]

After winning gold, Rademacher concocted a scheme to take on Floyd Patterson, the world heavyweight champion. When Pete Rademacher won the gold medal in heavyweight boxing at the 1956 Summer [...]

A five-time Italian heavyweight champion, he was a well-known figure in his northern Italian town. He died of the novel coronavirus. This obituary is part of a series about people [...]

A fighter, trainer, cutman and manager, he once owned both a bar and a gym. Only the bar survives. He died of coronavirus complications. This obituary is part of a [...]

Arriving from Mexico, he found his calling outside the ring and attracted a following of clients with different backgrounds and goals. This obituary is part of a series about people [...]

Pernell Whitaker, a left-handed defensive master in the boxing ring who won a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics and became a champion in four weight classes as a [...]

Bert Cooper, a powerful ring brawler who was the first professional boxer to knock down Evander Holyfield -- although he went on to lose their heavyweight championship bout -- died [...]

Eusebio Pedroza, a Panamanian boxer with a sharp jab and a reputation for dirty tactics who successfully defended the World Boxing Association featherweight title 19 times over seven years, died [...]

Karl Mildenberger, a top German boxer whose most notable fight was a bloody 12th-round loss in 1966 to Muhammad Ali for the world heavyweight title, died on Oct. 5 in [...]

Karl Mildenberger, a top German boxer whose most notable fight was a bloody 12th-round loss in 1966 to Muhammad Ali for the world heavyweight title, died on Oct. 5 in [...]

Karl Mildenberger, a top German boxer whose most notable fight was a bloody 12th-round loss in 1966 to Muhammad Ali for the world heavyweight title, died on Oct. 5 in [...]

Terry Downes, a quick-witted middleweight boxing champion from Britain, nicknamed the Paddington Express, who became wealthy outside the ring by investing in legal betting shops and later did a bit [...]

Terry Downes, a quick-witted middleweight boxing champion from Britain, nicknamed the Paddington Express, who became wealthy outside the ring by investing in legal betting shops and later did a bit [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDJake LaMotta, boxing's ''Raging Bull,'' who brawled his way to the middleweight boxing championship in a life of unbridled fury -- within the ring and outside it -- that [...]

Sugar Ramos, a Cuban featherweight boxing champion who was best known for winning a title fight that led to the death of his opponent, Davey Moore, and that prompted calls [...]

Alex Stewart, a heavyweight contender who fought Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield and nearly beat George Foreman, died on Nov. 16 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. He was 52. His death [...]

Aaron Pryor, whose erratic swings and stances won him the world junior welterweight boxing championship but also mirrored a career-ending struggle with cocaine addiction, died on Sunday at his home [...]

Bobby Chacon, a scrappy two-time world boxing champion who was haunted by tragedy outside the arena and memorialized in song by Warren Zevon, died on Wednesday at a hospice in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMuhammad Ali, the three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who helped define his turbulent times as the most charismatic and controversial sports figure of the 20th century, died on Friday [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMuhammad Ali, the three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who helped define his turbulent times as the most charismatic and controversial sports figure of the 20th century, died on Friday [...]

Muhammad Ali, the three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who helped define his turbulent times as the most charismatic and controversial sports figure of the 20th century, died on Friday in [...]

Howard Davis Jr., a boxer from Long Island who in 1976 won an Olympic gold medal and also received the Val Barker Trophy, awarded to the most outstanding Olympic fighter, [...]

Bob Foster, a devastating puncher who was one of boxing's most dominant light-heavyweight champions but failed in his quest to capture a heavyweight title when he was knocked out by [...]

Tony Ayala Jr., a fierce, gifted and troubled fighter who was a rising middleweight contender before a rape conviction sent him to prison, was found dead on Tuesday at his [...]

Gene Fullmer, the middleweight boxing champion known for a brawling style and an ability to shake off punches and remembered for his title fights with Sugar Ray Robinson and Carmen [...]

Oscar Diaz, a former welterweight boxing champion whose career ended when he sustained a debilitating brain injury in a fight nearly seven years ago, died on Thursday in San Antonio. [...]

Harold Johnson, a boxer who spent a year as the undisputed world light-heavyweight champion but who more often fought in the shadow of hard luck, getting the short end of [...]

Ernie Terrell, who briefly shared the heavyweight championship with the fighter then widely known as Cassius Clay and who later, after refusing to acknowledge that Clay had taken the Muslim [...]

Here Joe Louis poses at age 62, in 1977, in the casino of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Although one of the greatest prizefighters in American history, Louis was, by [...]

Matthew Saad Muhammad, a former boxing champion known for his bruising style whose rags-to-riches-to-rags life story began in abandonment and nearly ended in homelessness, died on Sunday in Philadelphia, where [...]

Jimmy Ellis, the onetime sparring partner for Muhammad Ali who captured the heavyweight boxing championship after it had been stripped from Ali for his refusing induction into the armed forces, [...]

Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, a star prizefighter whose career was cut short by a murder conviction in New Jersey and who became an international cause clbre while imprisoned for 19 years [...]

Tommy Morrison, who displayed his hard-hitting boxing style as a protg of Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa in the 1990 movie ''Rocky V'' and defeated George Foreman to capture a heavyweight [...]

It was the night of March 24, 1962, a nationally televised welterweight title fight at Madison Square Garden between Emile Griffith and Benny Paret, known as Kid. Griffith was seeking [...]

Carl Williams, a former heavyweight champion who built a reputation for climbing into the ring with the best boxers of his era, including Larry Holmes and Mike Tyson, died on [...]

Carl Williams, a former heavyweight champion who built a reputation for climbing into the ring with the best fighters of his era, including Larry Holmes and Mike Tyson, died on [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHector Camacho, a boxer known for his lightning-quick hands and flamboyant personality who emerged from a delinquent childhood in New York's Spanish Harlem to become a world champion in [...]

Carmen Basilio, the welterweight and middleweight boxing champion of the 1950s who fought two brutal bouts with Sugar Ray Robinson, winning his middleweight title and then losing it to him, [...]

Michael Dokes, who used his swift, punishing fists to become the world heavyweight boxing champion in 1982 and, 15 years later, to beat his live-in girlfriend so savagely that he [...]

Michael Dokes, who used his swift, punishing fists to become the world heavyweight boxing champion in 1982 and, 15 years later, to beat his live-in girlfriend so savagely that he [...]

Jimmy Bivins, a heavyweight boxer who in the 1940s and '50s beat eight future world champions but, to his lasting regret, never got a shot at the title himself, died [...]

Teofilo Stevenson, one of the greatest amateurs in boxing history, the winner of three Olympic gold medals for Cuba and a national hero who shunned the prospect of turning pro, [...]

Johnny Tapia, a prizefighter who won world titles in three weight classes in a chaotic life that included jail, struggles with mental illness, suicide attempts and five times being declared [...]

Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion whose furious and intensely personal fights with a taunting Muhammad Ali endure as an epic rivalry in boxing history, died Monday night. He was [...]