When Muhammad Ali fought Joe Frazier for the first time, on March 8, 1971, it was about as big a deal as 20th century sports produced. The match was unprecedented in its scale and its significance.

Muhammad Ali was a former world champion coming into this fight who was in the process of finding his footing again in the world of boxing after a three-year ban stripped him of his belt after he ...

With spring of 1971 in the offing, Joe Frazier, undefeated world heavyweight champion, would finally get his change to fight the legend of Muhammad Ali. And the man himself – who promised to be ...

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 ...

For boxing that moment came at Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971 when unbeaten heavyweights Ali and Frazier fought in what remains, just as it was advertised that night 50 years ago, the ...

Gore will have to be at the top of his game to compete with the entertainment value of this film, which documents the greater meaning and "cultural divide" surrounding the March 8, 1971 fight ...

Muhammad Ali trains on the heavy bag at the 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach on Feb. 24, 1971. (Larry Spitzer/The Courier-Journal-USA TODAY Sports) Frazier won the bout via unanimous decision.

On March 8, 1971, Joe Frazier scored a unanimous, 15-round decision over Muhammad Ali in what many believe to be the most eagerly anticipated boxing event of the 20th century. Certainly, it was ...

It was the third fight of the famed trilogy, with Frazier having won The Fight of the Century in New York in 1971 before Ali evened things up winning the rematch in 1974, so everything hinged on ...

Their first bout in 1971, billed as the "Fight of the Century," had been a brutal affair, with Frazier emerging victorious after 15 grueling rounds. After Ali was banned from the sport for 3 years due ...

Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion who handed Muhammad Ali his first defeat yet had to live forever in his shadow, has died after a brief final fight with liver cancer. He was 67.

Frazier is considered to be Ali’s biggest rival. The two split their first two fights — Frazier winning the first bout in 1971 and Ali winning the second in 1974.