Australian sports and political figures on Monday paid tribute to boxing great Lionel Rose, the first Aboriginal boxer to win a world title, who died over the weekend at age 62. Thousands of mourners ...

MELBOURNE, Australia-- Lionel Rose, the first Australian Aborigine to win a world boxing title, has died. He was 62. His family said he died Sunday after being ill for several months. He had a stroke ...

The ceremony will be held at Festival Hall - the venue where he won his first big fights in 1963. Five years later he became the first Aboriginal world champion when he beat Japan's Fighting Harada in ...

It was one of those tragic quirks of fate this week that on the same day Daniel Geale became only the fourth Australian-born fighter to win a world title on foreign soil, one of those legends he ...

It would be hard to find a tougher or more tenacious people than Australia’s Aborigines. They have to be. Virtually Stone Age nomads, the Aborigine tribes roam naked through the desolate Australian ...