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 ...

Lionel Rose, the first Australian aboriginal boxer to win a world title, died Sunday at the age of 62, his family said. Rose, who beat Japan's Fighting Harada in Tokyo in 1968 to win the world ...

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 ...