On the evening of March 8, 1971, inside a celebrity-packed Madison Square Garden, Muhammad Ali entered the ring wrapped in a red robe with white trim for his “Fight of the Century” with Joe Frazier.

The world of sports never stops jumping and running, shooting and hitting, winning and losing. Occasionally, this chaos of constant action brings a moment that lingers forever, like the taste of ...

Frank Sinatra was working ringside, moonlighting as a photographer for Life magazine. Burt Lancaster, the Oscar-winning actor, was recast in the role of a color commentator. “I looked down from the ...

Fifty years ago Monday, on March 8, 1971, some 20,000 extraordinarily lucky people convened in Madison Square Garden for the Fight of the Century by which all other Fights of the Century before or ...

Boxers live out the marshal creeds of their truths and lies, under the blinding limelight, at the knife edge of death’s tragic enfolding, without recourse martyrdom or public restitutions for the ...

Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali's "Fight of the Century" is now forever preserved in bronze. The two athletes' likenesses were unveiled Monday in a statue commemorating the 50th anniversary of their ...

Speaking in a resurfaced interview, Frazier made no mistake in naming Joe Louis as the greatest heavyweight of all time in his opinion, overlooking former rival Ali who many actually consider to be ...

On March 8, 1971, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met in the one of the most anticipated boxing matches in history, the “Fight of the Century” at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Fifty years later, ...

On March 8, 1971, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier faced off for the world heavyweight championship in New York. John Allbert, then 11 years old and a future Charlotte doctor, persuaded his father to take ...