Known for his slick defense and precision strikes, Ezzard Charles defeated numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three different weight classes. He has been touted by some boxing critics as the greatest light heavyweight boxer of all time.

Superman vs. Muhammad Ali was an oversize comic book published by DC Comics in 1978. The 72-page book featured Superman teaming up with heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali to defeat an alien invasion of Earth.

After losing his next fifty fights, Deakin finally won again in 2015--nearly a decade after his debut. After the fight, he tweeted: "I'm back."

In 1971, Los Angeles Laker Wilt Chamberlain challenged Ali to a fight, and a bout was scheduled for July 26. Although the seven-foot-two-inch Chamberlain had formidable physical advantages over Ali--weighing 60 pounds more and able to reach 14 inches further--he was unsettled by Ali's taunts of "Timber!" and "The tree will fall" during a shared interview. When Lakers owner Jack Kent Cooke offered him a record-setting contract, conditional on Chamberlain agreeing to abandon what Cooke termed "this boxing foolishness", he did exactly that.

Punch-Out!! featured a boxer known as Little Mac, fighting his way up through the ranks of the World Video Boxing Association. After facing a series of colorful fictional opponents in three circuits, the goal was to win a final "Dream Fight" against a highly skilled boxer. In the original version, this was real-life World Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson.