PHILADELPHIA (AP) Former light heavyweight champion Matthew Saad Muhammad, who was abandoned as a child and rose to become ''one of the most exciting boxers of all time'' and later an advocate for ...

Matthew Saad Muhammad, a former light heavyweight boxing champion who was abandoned as a child and went on to become one of the most exciting boxers of the 1970s and 1980s, died May 25 at a ...

PHILADELPHIA – He stands outside the Ridge Center, the largest homeless shelter in the city, and Matthew Saad Muhammad talks about what it is like inside, about how some of the residents ...

And he was hurt a lot.” MATTHEW SAAD MUHAMMAD knows hurt. He’s been throttled by life’s cruel turns and by troubles of his own making, a devastating one-two combo. As I write this—a ...

Saad Muhammad was born in 1954 in Philadelphia and lived with an aunt but was abandoned on the street at age 5 when the family could no longer take care of him, he had said. A different relative “took ...

Matthew Saad Muhammad, one of the greatest light heavyweight fighters in boxing history, died on Sunday, May 25, 2014. He will certainly be missed by many boxing fans who followed his career.

Former light-heavyweight champion Matthew Saad Muhammad, who was abandoned as a child and rose to become “one of the most exciting boxers of all time” and later an advocate for the homeless ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Former light heavyweight champion Matthew Saad Muhammad, who was abandoned as a child and rose to become "one of the most exciting boxers of all time" and later an advocate ...

Matthew Saad Muhammad, who was involved in some of boxing's most exciting fights during his Hall of Fame career, died Sunday morning at Chestnut Hill Hospital in his hometown of Philadelphia.

Hall of Fame former light heavyweight champion Matthew Saad Muhammad died Sunday at Chestnut Hill Hospital in his hometown of Philadelphia. He was 59. The cause of death was not announced.