Here's an interesting post-Manila nugget. Lewis, is Butch Lewis, one of Frazier's old friends: Back in the States, Ali called Lewis and asked him for Frazier's private number. Ali told Lewis that ...

Advertisement The flurry opened that final round, Ali’s feet shuffling as he landed hard blows on Frazier’s head from both fists. “Fool, fool, you’ve got to fall,” Ali recalled saying to ...

If the two men’s names go hand in glove, it is simply because Frazier goes down in history as the first boxer ever to defeat Ali in what was dubbed the “Fight of the Century” in March 1971. And after ...

VERONA, N.Y. – Before the punches came the war of words between the daughters of Smokin’ Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. “I’m just going to break her off, beat her up and put her to rest.

It was the battle of the champs, and not just according to LIFE Magazine’s headline: Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, two undefeated boxers, would meet head to head on March 8, 1971. Each would ...

The “Thrilla in Manila” - the famed final bout between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, held on Oct. 1, 1975 - did more than just change the world of boxing; it altered the landscape of ...

A rare gold boxing glove made to commemorate Muhammad Ali's "Fight of the Century" against Joe Frazier in Madison Square Garden nearly 50 years ago failed to find a buyer in an auction in Turin on ...