After her first fight though, her father told her he was wrong — and cried. BOXING HALL OF FAME, CANASTOTA — Muhammad Ali once told his fifth daughter Laila Ali not to fight because boxing's ...

Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano will fight in the first-ever female main boxing event at Madison Square Garden later this week Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano will make history on April 30 when ...

And she hates backing down from a fight. So, they clashed. The first big fight happened when Laila Ali was 7 years old. "I remember pretty much waking up early in the morning because we had to ...

Laila Ali didn’t have amateur fights. Three years before her first fight, Ali spontaneously decided she wanted to box after watching one of Christy Martin’s fights. Her father was against it.

Ali has been retired for over a decade, but she tells First Take she has maintained her health and fitness and could get the job done. Shields said she is ready and willing to fight Muhammad Ali ...

Pro wrestling legend Antonio Inoki once very famously fought Muhammad Ali in one of the first matches that ... a (perhaps quasi-worked) fight between Chyna and Laila Ali, possibly the greatest ...

Former boxer Laila Ali says she could beat UFC champion Ronda Rousey in a fight. Ali was stopped by TMZ cameras at a Los Angeles International Airport parking garage and was first asked about the ...

Laila Ali believes she could beat any woman ... But if it’s an MMA fight, Rousey wins that one in the first round. MMA fighters are much more skill in all-around fighting rather than boxers ...

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart and it perfectly fits with the professional boxer Laila Ali. In an exclusive ... s boxing on television for the first time when I was about 19 years ...

Ronda Rousey has responded to Laila Ali's comments, telling The Daily Beast's Marlow Stern that she's "around" if the boxer ever wants to fight ... s legacy as her first-round armbar victories.

Claressa Shields told ESPN's Myron Medcalf in a radio interview that she is willing to fight Laila Ali and ... to comments made by Ali on Friday in an appearance on ESPN's First Take.