Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali tries to avoid a left hand thrown by challenger Ken Norton in a middle round of their title fight in Yankee Stadium, Sept. 28, 1976. Credit: AP/ Anonymous Challenger ...

They were young once, and perhaps it's best to remember them that way. Magnificent men on stages equally as magnificent, they were part of the golden age of heavyweight boxing. With Muhammad Ali as ...

Tom Cushman figured he was bound to be disappointed. When he arrived in San Diego in March 1973 to cover Muhammad Ali’s fight against Ken Norton, Cushman justifiably believed that it had little chance ...

LAS VEGAS -- Former heavyweight champion Ken Norton, who beat Muhammad Ali and later lost a controversial decision to him in Yankee Stadium, died Wednesday at a local care facility. He was 70. Ken ...

The last time Harold Lederman watched a fight in anything called “Yankee Stadium,” he wound up ducking plenty of punches thrown his way. There were repeated phone calls to his house, reporters on his ...

Muhammad Ali's cornerman, Wali Muhammad, didn't see the punch that broke the former champion's jaw during his March 1, 1973, fight with Ken Norton. Nobody did. Watching tape of the fight, there is no ...

(CNN) — Forty years after rising to the top of the boxing world and outdueling Muhammad Ali, Ken Norton lost his final fight — a battle following a stroke — at a Nevada medical facility, a friend said ...

Ken Norton and Muhammad Ali fought three times, with Ali winning twice. All were extremely close (AP photo) ALAMEDA _ When Muhammad Ali passed away Friday, the memories came to Raiders defensive ...

Ken Norton Sr., the former hard-bodied heavyweight with the distinctive cross-armed defense who once defeated a prime Muhammad Ali while breaking his jaw, died Wednesday at a hospital in Arizona.

Raiders defensive coordinator Ken Norton Jr. A full transcript of an interview with Raiders defensive coordinator Ken Norton Jr. on the relationship and the three fights between his late father Ken ...

Sixty years ago this week, U.S. boxer Cassius Clay won a gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Rome. Clay would go on to change his name to Muhammad Ali, win the world heavyweight boxing title three ...

They were young once, and perhaps it’s best to remember them that way. Magnificent men on stages equally as magnificent, they were part of the golden age of heavyweight boxing. With Muhammad Ali as ...