Boxing
Ed Brown’s co-manager Mike Cericola said the boxing ring is often “the scariest place” for people, but it was the “safest” for Brown.
His daughter Kayla was a key reason Brown, 25, an undefeated, national junior welterweight boxer clearly headed to the big time didn’t leave Chicago.
If you were watching undefeated light heavyweight Mike Lee fight for the first time, it would be fair to wonder what all the fuss is about.
RICK MORRISSEY: Have you seen this guy’s head?
RICK MORRISSEY: Crazy money for what, in essence, is a bar fight.
<p>Andrzej Fonfara called his fight against Nathan Cleverly the “next step” in his ascent up boxing’s ladder. Then he hesitated, saying,
TELANDER: Back when I was a teenager and a young man, I fully expected Muhammad Ali to be killed. Not in a plane crash and certainly not in the ring.
Chicago-area men brar Quader and Habeeb Quadri went to Louisville to attend funeral services for global icon Muhammad Ali in his hometown.
Pallbearers included former boxers Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis and actor Will Smith.
RICK MORRISSEY: He didn’t use his fame to preach.
RICK MORRISSEY: Too often, money gets in the way of a social conscience.
Cassius Clay was born in Kentucky, but Muhammad Ali was born on the South Side of Chicago. Ali lived in Chicago for about a dozen years.
Muhammad Ali, a brash, bragging, rhyming boxing champion who, despite riches, still cared deeply about social issues, died Friday in Arizona at 74.
In a funeral he planned years ago, Muhammad Ali will be coming home as a “citizen of the world” when he is buried Friday in Louisville.
RICK MORRISSEY: He was a fighter who went in search of peace.
Muhammad Ali, the magnificent heavyweight champion whose fast fists and irrepressible personality transcended sports, has died. He was 74
The 74-year-old boxing great is fighting respiratory issues that are complicated by the Parkinson’s that he was diagnosed with in the 1980s.
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