After winning gold, Rademacher concocted a scheme to take on Floyd Patterson, the world heavyweight champion. By Richard Sandomir When Pete Rademacher won the gold medal in heavyweight boxing at the ...

Dick McTaggart, the Olympic boxing champion who has died aged 89, was the first British fighter to compete at three successive Games; the tall Dundee southpaw, with his trademark crew cut and white ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CLEVELAND (AP) — Pete Rademacher, who won a ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Pete Rademacher, who won a boxing gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and fought Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight title in his first professional bout, has died. He was 91. A ...