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The Time Muhammad Ali's Hero Turned Him Into A Dish Washer In the video above, you will see a young Muhammad Ali, still Cassius Clay then, beating the brakes off Archie Moore in 1962. Moore was 48 years old at the time, and was once the fighter Ali admired above all others. That changed the year before this bout, though, when Ali finally got a chance to t...

How Archie Moore Fought Forever And Became Boxing's Folk HeroThis piece was originally published in the New Yorker on Nov. 11, 1961. It is reprinted here with permission....

Blackmail, Sexual Obsession, Fight Fixing: Behind The Weird Scenes On The Night Floyd Patterson Conquered BoxingExcerpted from W.K. Stratton's Floyd Patterson: The Fighting Life of Boxing's Invisible Champion, available today from fine booksellers everywhere....