Frank Sinatra was working ringside, moonlighting as a photographer for Life magazine. Burt Lancaster, the Oscar-winning actor, was recast in the role of a color commentator. “I looked down from 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, ...

The “Thrilla in Manila” is not just about Muhammad Ali’s victory in his third and final fight with Joe Frazier, 50 years ago. In the months before the fight, Ali set a cruel agenda and, on the night, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Fifty years ago, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought the “Thrilla in Manila,” still considered the greatest and ...

It was oven-hot inside the arena, and that was before the fight began. The building’s air-conditioning had already lost the undercard against the tropical sun, and the air was thick with humidity.

“We’re just two colored boys from the ghetto and we have the whole world watching us in the greatest event of all time!” Thus did Muhammad Ali describe himself and Joe Frazier hours before they faced ...

Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought in the third and final installment of their storied rivalry 50 years ago in the Philippines. The fight was nicknamed the "Thrilla in Manila." In 2005, the Muhammad ...

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 take ...

The most important prizefight in boxing’s history would take place on Boxing’s biggest stage - Madison Square Garden. It was Ali-Frazier I and in Frazier’s corner was a diminutive man, whose strategy ...

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, ...