In the 1960s, Wilt Chamberlain emerged as the most dominant basketball player the world had ever seen around the same time Muhammad Ali started to cement himself as one of the most fearsome boxers in history. At the start of the following decade, the two men agreed to meet each other in the ring,

The old saying goes ‘never meet your heroes’ because that meeting can go wrong in so many ways. They can be disappointing, you can embarrass yourself, they might not be nice or live up to expectations, and an infinite number of other unpleasant scenarios could play out, or they could live up to the

Getty Image Muhammad Ali’s WBC belt won in 1974 sold for a record $6.18 million on Saturday. The belt was the prize of Ali’s win over George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle,” which took place in Kinshasa, Zaire. The fight marked the legendary fighter’s return to the ring after previously

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3e6pDf7tmo Joel Platt almost died at the age of 4. “In 1943, I put a lit match into a car’s gas tank,” Platt, now 82, told The New York Post. During his recovery, Platt dreamed of being visited by Babe Ruth thanks to baseball cards his parents bought him when he

Tiger Woods has experienced plenty of memorable moments with some of the most famous people on the planet. Whether it be superstar athletes, celebrities, or world leaders, the man has shaken a lot of important and powerful hands. Having said that, it’s probably safe to say a certain encounter with