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George Foreman, Boxing Champion Turned Businessman, Dies at 76

George Foreman, the two-time heavyweight boxing champion who lost to Muhammad Ali in the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” and later became a successful entrepreneur, has died. He was 76. Foreman died on ...
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Saudi Cash Is Reviving Boxing’s Don King Era, WBC Executive Says

Saudi Arabia’s huge investments are restoring boxing to the glamor and profile it had under legendary promoter Don King, according to a senior administrator at one of the main organizations for the ...
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Katie Taylor questions if women's boxing has 'strength and depth' for 3-minute rounds

Undisputed world lightweight champion Katie Taylor has questioned whether women's boxing has the “strength and depth” to move to three-minute rounds. The Irish fighter will try to avenge the only loss ...
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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko Calls Putin’s Nuclear Threat a Bluff

Vitali Klitschko, the former world heavyweight boxing champion who’s now mayor of Kyiv, said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear arms in Ukraine were only a “big bluff. “If Putin ...