Six ways Katie Taylor’s camp can avoid the problems that befell Muhammad Ali’s Croke Park fight
The meeting of Ali and Al “Blue” Lewis on a hot July night in 1972 proved a financial and logistical disaster
Muhammad Ali
Croke Park stadium director expects sell-out Katie Taylor fight
Peter McKenna says ‘expertise’ behind marketing campaign will help fill 82,300 capacity
I rewatched the Thrilla in Manila with Muhammad Ali. He still winced at the blows years later
This week marks the 50th anniversary of one of boxing’s greatest fights
Dave Hannigan: For Rahaman Ali, brotherly love was a double-edged sword
Younger sibling to the self-styled ‘Greatest’ was seen as a full-time hanger on
In a Word...Ancestry
Ireland has proved adept at forging friendships with influential people based on family heritage
The Big Fight by Dave Hannigan: Account of Muhammad Ali in Croke Park a strange time capsule of 1970s Ireland
This book will certainly appeal to Ali fans but also holds value for readers who see the Ireland of 50 years ago as a foreign country
When Muhammad Ali came to Ireland: how a ‘splendid spoofer’ from Kerry planned to lure the boxer to Dublin
Kerryman Michael ‘Butty’ Sugrue was known as ‘the splendid spoofer’, so few believed he’d convince the most famous athlete in the world to fight in Croke Park
George Foreman: A life in pictures
George Foreman, an Olympic gold medallist and heavy weight champion, was one of the great second acts in sports
George Foreman: Heavyweight boxing champion dies aged 76
Foreman, a two-time world heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medallist, retired in 1997
From Ali v Inoki to Mayweather v McGregor: five bizarre boxing bouts
Ahead of Mike Tyson’s controversial fight with the YouTuber Jake Paul, here are five other memorable oddities
Inside the Rumble in the Jungle: Ali’s extramarital affair, Foreman’s ‘drugged water’ claim
As the boxers retreated to their corners to hear the first bell, a billion people around the globe were watching
Dave Hannigan: A spin down memory lane and where it started for Muhammad Ali
‘Don’t bother your head about that stupid house … One of these days they’re liable to make it a national shrine’
A life’s cycle – Frank McNally on the death of Olympian Willie Dunne
The passing of Willie coincided with the passing of former Irish Times picture editor, Peter Thursfield
‘Baldy Paulie will go down in two’ - when Rocky Balboa’s cornerman fought Muhammad Ali
Burt Young dined out on the anecdote from boxing folklore until his death last week aged 83
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