Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier was billed as the ‘Fight of the Century,’ held on March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The match lasted 15 rounds with the judges ...
Yahoo Sports' Kevin Iole remembers when Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met in the ring for the undisputed world heavyweight championship on March 8, 1971 in the Fight of the Century at Madison ...
Nas takes you ringside and back in time to a fight that changed the world forever.
Foreman left an incredible legacy in the boxing ring that includes some of the most historic fights in history ...
He would one day be Richard Pryor’s tour manager, work Joe Frazier’s corner for the Fight of the Century, and sit in the passenger seat of Wilt Chamberlain’s purple Cadillac convertible. But in the ...
In his classic work, Loser and Still Champion, Budd Schulberg opens the chapter concerning the first Ali–Frazier bout at ...
THE first time we met was in the stairwell at The Sun’s former HQ in Wapping, where the smokers would congregate. Colin Hart ...
The photo was shot just before The Fight of the Century in 1971, Ali and Frazier’s first meeting, the only one that Joe won, famously knocking Ali down for an exclamation point. Both men are ...
Ali also locked horns with another two icons of the heavyweight division in George Foreman and Joe Frazier, defeating both ...
Smokin' Joe' had become the face of the sport after his legacy-sealing victory over Ali in their 1971 'Fight of the Century'. Frazier made short work of Terry Daniels and Ron Stander in his first ...
Ali twice beat Frazier and Ken Norton. Meanwhile, the biggest and richest fight of that period was a one-act play. The Sporting News takes a deep dive into the reasons why a sequel to The Rumble ...