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 ...

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 ...

Both were already legendary professional champions after each having won gold medals in the Olympics, Ali in Rome in 1960 and Frazier in Tokyo in 1964. On March 8, 1971, Ali was 29 years old, 31-0 ...

Called “The Fight of the Century,” the first of three fights between Ali and Joe Frazier took place in Madison Square Garden in 1971. After 15 rounds, the judges gave the fight to Frasier by ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’re talking about three fights that took place between 1971 and 1975 culminating in the Thrilla in Manila. The film was told, though, from Frazier’s point of view. And it was the first time gotten ...

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.

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA -- 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 ...

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 ...