John Willett was a natural born boxer at heart which earned him many accolades during his time at Santa Clara. During Willett’s Junior year, he won a bronze medal in the 1960 boxing finals, and came ...

In the wake of Muhammad Ali's death, Memphis insurance agent Henry Hooper II remembered the moment he let down his guard against an up and coming boxer named Cassius Clay. It was May 19, 1960 at the ...

Saturday night was a chance to go back to the good ol' days with championship boxing on network television. In the 1950s and 1960s, boxing on prime-time network television regularly drew a 20-25 ...

It was in Washington in the late 1960s, where Muhammad Ali first crossed paths with F. Mac Buckley, the “boxing lawyer” from Hartford. Ali had used his fists and his mouth to muscle his way onto the ...