Fighter’s Heaven in West Brunswick Township recently welcomed the author of “Ali: A Life” to tour the former training camp of professional boxer and heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. Author Jonathan ...

Muhammad Ali proclaimed himself “The Greatest,” which, when it comes to his boxing, is debatable, but not when it comes to his legacy as an athlete who spoke out on social issues. Jonathan Eig’s new ...

For much of his career, boxing great Muhammad Ali was convinced that his brain wouldn’t be affected by the thousands of powerful, crippling blows he received from his opponents, says the author of a ...

Cassius Clay exploded onto the scene in 1960 as the audacious boxer known as "The Louisville Lip." Clay would go on to change his name and the course of American history -- first as an Olympic and ...

Muhammad Ali was showing signs of brain damage when he was just 29, says author Jonathan Eig. While researching “Ali: A Life,” his meticulous and massive Ali bio, Eig discovered that one of the ...

Several years ago I had the wonderful opportunity to travel through Israel and the West Bank to talk to Palestinian and Israeli poets. Among the remarkable writers I met there and the one who made the ...

On Feb. 6, 1967, Muhammad Ali stepped into a boxing ring in the Houston Astrodome to take on then-heavyweight champion Ernie Terrell. Ali was nursing a serious grudge against Terrell, who kept ...

Arguably no one knew Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) better than his brother, as Rahaman Ali proves in this astute account of the world boxing champion’s life. From their childhood in Jim Crow–era Louisville ...

HE OFTEN claimed to be the greatest of all time, and he was right. Only a handful of athletes reach the pinnacle of their discipline. A couple of those have done so with a swagger that made them their ...

Rahaman Ali, the younger brother of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, has died, his family confirmed. Ali passed away on Friday, Aug. 1, just two weeks after his 82nd birthday, according to the Muhammad ...

The Muhammad Ali Center announced Rahaman's death on Saturday, Aug. 2 Rahaman Ali, Muhammad Ali's younger brother, died on Friday, Aug. 1, at the age of 82 Rahaman, who was a professional boxer in his ...