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 ...

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, ...

Heavyweight great "Smokin' Joe” Frazier would have been 81 today. And Frazier, who was and is everything that represents ...

LAS VEGAS — It has been 26 years since Joe Frazier sat on a stool in his corner of the ring in the sweltering heat of Manila and tried futilely to see through badly swollen eyes. When Frazier failed ...

Late in life, Muhammad Ali spoke more openly about the fighters who shaped him. Some earned his admiration. Others genuinely ...