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, ...

Madame Butterfly stung just hard enough. Laila Ali scored a majority decision over Jacqui Frazier-Lyde on Friday night as the daughters of two of boxing's greats slugged it out for eight rounds at ...

Get set for Ali-Frazier IV. Three decades after Joe Frazier won a brutal 15-round decision over Muhammad Ali in the first of their three memorable bouts, their sparring daughters said they will ...

In the ring, they even looked like the Taijitu, the symbol for yin and yang—Muhammad Ali erect, left jab extended, head held high (too high, an old-timer would tell you), Joe Frazier crouching, hands ...

There was a time when Muhammad Ali taunted Joe Frazier relentlessly, called him ugly and challenged his manhood. After his old rival died Monday night, Ali had nothing but kind words for Smokin’ Joe. ...

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, ...

PHILADELPHIA – Joe Frazier had to throw his greatest punch to knock down “The Greatest.” A vicious left hook from Frazier put Muhammad Ali on the canvas in the 15th round in March 1971 when he became ...

For those who remember, it's all a little hard to take. For those who may have ventured just down the road from here yesterday afternoon to Canastota, the home of the modest and charming International ...

The money was huge — a cool $2.5 million apiece — and so was the stage for Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Their first fight at Madison Square Garden was so epic it was billed as the Fight of the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Fifty years ago, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought the “Thrilla in Manila,” still considered the greatest and ...

Fifty years on from the Thrilla in Manila, this is the first landmark anniversary of the consensus greatest heavyweight title fight of all time where neither of the combatants remain with us. Joe ...