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When Muhammad Ali was a child, Sugar Ray Robinson turned him down for an autograph. Ali swore that he would never do that to anybody, and so he never turned anybody down for autograph requests.
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In 1912 boxing was excluded from the Summer Olympics in Stockholm because boxing was illegal in Sweden.
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George Foreman made more money selling his grills than he ever did during his boxing career.
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John L. Sullivan is the fighter in the manly man meme. He was a bareknuckle boxer who once went for 75 rounds before winning.
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Boxing, along with things like marathon running, is one of the oldest sports known to man. Sumerian reliefs from 3,000 BC show some of the first competitions.
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