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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 [...]

Byline: Matt Schudel Bobby Chacon, a California boxer whose brawling style in the ring helped him win two world titles in the 1970s and 1980s, but whose personal life was [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Phil Elderkin The image of heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali always liked best was the one that appeared regularly in his bedroom mirror. Sportscaster Howard Cosell always claimed that Ali [...]

Byline: Matt Schudel and Bart Barnes Muhammad Ali, the charismatic three-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world and Olympic gold medalist who transcended the world of sports to become a [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer Muhammad Ali, the legend of all sports legends, is gone. His quiet, excruciating, decades-long descent into Parkinson's disease is over. If there is a championship ring in [...]

Byline: Dave Sheinin Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, the most important, complex and polarizing athlete of our time, died Friday night at an Arizona hospital. He was 74. He [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Tim Dahlberg Sugar Ramos, a Cuban featherweight boxing champion whose fists led to two ring deaths -- one inspiring a Bob Dylan song -- died Sept. 3 in Mexico [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Matt Schudel Gene Fullmer, a tough, durable boxer who twice won the world middleweight championship in the 1950s and whose Hall of Fame career included four title fights with [...]

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 [...]