Cassius Clay looks ahead. Not to his next $1,000,000, of course: that is already assured if Sonny Liston can only learn how to drive a Cadillac in a straight line. But after Liston, what?

It’s never belonged completely to its shores. It wasn’t birthed there. However, from the late nineteenth century to now, the United States has been largely the center of the boxing universe. For those ...

Philadelphia’s Joe Frazier, 24, will never float like a butterfly or sting like a bee. He does not even practice poetastry or Islam. Though he is no Muhammad Ali, Joltin’ Joe is still the second-best ...

Introduction : Tiger or pussycat? -- Black prizefighters as slaves and free men -- Jack Johnson, white hopes, and battle royals -- Becoming the Georgia Deacon -- The whitest Black man in the ring -- ...