Click to open image viewer. An image of Muhammad Ali fighting Floyd Patterson in 1965 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The image shows Ali landing a left handed punch, while Patterson has both arms up to block ...

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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. “He boxed, he clowned, he lectured and he performed magic,” Gazette Sports Editor Mike Chapman wrote ...

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 ...