George Chuvalo, boxer who fought Ali, dies at 89 after battling family tragedy

George Chuvalo, the Canadian heavyweight who absorbed punishment from Muhammad Ali and refused to fall, died at 89 having faced losses no boxing record could measure — his wife and three sons taken by suicide and heroin. Where most men might have retreated into private grief, Chuvalo stepped forward, spending his final decades traveling and speaking about addiction and despair with the same stubborn resolve that had defined him in the ring. His life stands as a quiet testament to the idea that endurance, at its deepest, is not about surviving blows but about choosing what to do with the wounds