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From Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali to Bernard Hopkins and Floyd Mayweather Jr., boxing has enjoyed some of the best trash-talkers in sports. And you can add current heavyweight contender Tyson Fury to the list.

Two sets of gloves worn by Muhammad Ali each sold for $385,848 in bidding that concluded Saturday.

Gloves from two of Muhammad Ali's biggest fights are among items being auctioned off by the estate of his former trainer, Angelo Dundee.

Oct. 29, 1960: Fifty-two summers ago, a young boxer named Cassius Clay claimed the light heavyweight Olympic gold medal in Rome. Not long after, Ali turned pro -- and on this day that same year, the man who would be Muhammad Ali fought for the fir...

Editor's note: Welcome to the second installment of the "Playbook Q," in which we query the rooting interests of celebrities. Liam Neeson has played Zeus, Oskar Schindler, a Jedi knight, Ra's al Ghul and a talking lion. But today he reprises the r...

Oct. 1, 1975: To borrow a quote used in an ESPN Classic SportsCentury account of this third and final fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier: "Of all the men I fought, Sonny Liston was the scariest, George Foreman was the most powerful, Floyd Pat...

Conventional wisdom suggests that Stephan Bonnar, who last fought in November 2011 and spent the past few months contemplating retirement, has nothing to lose against middleweight champion Anderson Silva at UFC 153. There's no title on the line, t...

Chris: Rem, when it comes to watching tennis, Brooklyn Decker is the greatest. She's Alexander. She's Sonny Liston. She's Jack Dempsey. There's no one like her. Her style is impetuous, her defense is impregnable, she's ferocious. She has our heart. I...

What should college football players be paid? Will Tiger ever win again? Was the 1985 NBA draft lottery rigged? The Mag puts to rest some of the greatest debates in sports.

If Anderson Silva doesn't win his fifteenth straight UFC fight, that means hell will have descended on Rio. That means the man in a foreign land, Chael Sonnen, went into Brazil and wrested the most elusive belt from the company's most dominant champi...

Colin Cowherd remembers Muhammad Ali on his 70th birthday. Ali was the last athlete to have the cultural significance that Tim Tebow is approaching now. Colin talks about Ali's process in beating Sonny Liston. Big men aren't afraid of big men. Tough ...

Muhammad Ali soaked in familiar cheers and chants along with a rendition of "Happy Birthday" on Saturday night as friends and admirers celebrated the boxing champ's coming 70th birthday at a party in his Kentucky hometown.

It's a mistake to define Joe Frazier through the prism of Muhammad Ali. He was his own man.

The "Bayonne Bleeder" fought Muhammad Ali, inspired underdogs everywhere and launched the most famous sports film franchise ever. Meet Chuck Wepner, "The Real Rocky."

Howl all you want about Hopkins-Dawson, Mayweather-Ortiz and other stinkers of recent vintage, but boxing has a long-standing and storied tradition of fights ending in skeevy and unsatisfactory fashion.

Sept. 25, 1962: Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in the first round....