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 ...

In the 50 years since Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought the Thrilla in Manila, may as well add another 50 years in the future, too. There has never been another event like it. And there never will ...

Muhammad Ali was there, his body frail and trembling in the throes of Parkinson’s disease. Fellow boxers Bernard Hopkins, Larry Holmes and Michael Spinks were there, too, among others, including ...

George Foreman fought many legendary heavyweights in his career, but once revealed the man with the toughest chin of them all ...

As he taunted Joe Frazier, former heavyweight champion of the world, Muhammad Ali, current champ, pointed at the custom black T-shirts he and his entourage sported as they crashed the Aug. 26, 1975, ...

Joe Frazier was famous enough and sick enough before he died that obituaries for him today will be thorough reads, with a few details up high buffed in the final minutes before some old scribe clicked ...

The “Thrilla in Manila” is not just about Muhammad Ali’s victory in his third and final fight with Joe Frazier, 50 years ago. In the months before the fight, Ali set a cruel agenda and, on the night, ...

Frazier had not been down but was wobbling on unsteady legs in the 14th. The halt was called by trainer Eddie Futch at the end of the round. Frazier’s face bore the marks of Ali’s solid hitting, but ...