Ken Norton, the 70s heavyweight powerhouse best known for handing Muhammad Ali one of his few losses, died Wednesday at a veterans medical facility where he had been recovering from a stroke. He was ...

In the mid 1960s, there was a lot of talk about a great fighter out of the amateur ranks named Ken Norton. Some of the guys on the 1968 Olympic team knew him from the armed forces team, and they spoke ...

The most important prizefight in boxing’s history would take place on Boxing’s biggest stage - Madison Square Garden. It was Ali-Frazier I and in Frazier’s corner was a diminutive man, whose strategy ...

You might say it’s preposterous to compare Ken Norton and Andrew Golota, but the two boxers shared a similar trait; they both broke down against punchers. Even though Golota’s propensity to break down ...

* Sept. 5, 1960 - Wins the Olympic light-heavyweight gold medal in Rome in a unanimous decision over Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland. * Oct. 29, 1960 - Makes his professional debut in his hometown of ...

Throughout his iconic boxing career that featured wins over Muhammad Ali, Ken Norton, Leon Spinks and many more, Larry Holmes always took his hometown with him. “The Easton Assassin” represented ...