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Anthony Joshua celebrates after defeating Charles Martin to take the IBF Heavyweight title on April 9, 2016. (Getty Images)

Anthony Joshua: Being a Boxer you Have to Be a Man of the People

by Alex Clark | Apr 24, 2017 | Sports

London – Anthony Joshua has never lost a professional fight and he’s won every bout with a knock-out. But in two weeks he faces the fearsome Wladimir Klitschko, aka Dr. Steelhammer. Should he be nervous? Alex Clark meets the bricklayer turned boxer. Anthony...

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Wladimir Klitschko: ‘One thing I believe is I don’t feel my age. It’s not empty words. I am getting in the best shape of my life.’ Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images

Wladimir Klitschko: ‘This May Sound Arrogant, But I Am Like Mount Everest’

by Sachin Nakrani | Apr 20, 2017 | Sports

Stanglwirt is a sprawling bio-hotel located in the Austrian Alps and which at first glance looks like the setting for a slow-burning, creepy horror movie. With its mountainous background and somewhat kitsch interior – heavy wood paneling, stripy sofas – it brings...

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Muhammad Ali, right, attacks Alex Mitoff in the sixth round in which Ali clobbered the Argentinean to the canvas, on Oct. 7, 1961 in Louisville, A.P.

Public Louisville Funeral Service Honoring Late Boxing Legend

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 6, 2016 | Sports

Louisville (U.S.)-London- The whole world has its eyes fixed at Louisville, the hometown of the late legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, awaiting the Friday funeral service which would lay the ever loved icon to rest. Muhammad Ali was more than just a typical sports legend,...