Thus did Muhammad Ali describe himself and Joe Frazier hours before they faced off at Madison Square Garden 50 years ago this week in a highly-anticipated rematch, the second in a trilogy of ...

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 ...

A "sledgehammer left hook" that put Muhammad Ali on the canvas in 1971 pretty much tells the story of Joe Frazier's career, NPR's Tom Goldman says. "It was as crushing and symbolic" as any of ...

Ali-Frazier IV was much different from I, II and III. This wasn’t the Thrilla in Manila, but the most public detente between these two former world champion boxers and longtime arch-enemies.

Joe Frazier, the relentless slugger who became the heavyweight champion of the world and earned boxing immortality with three epic battles against Muhammad Ali, died on Monday at age 67 ...

Twenty-nine years ago, the first of three fierce battles between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier was billed as such an event--and it lived up to the hype. It does still. "The Fight," as it was simply ...

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 ...

Smacking one for the Silent Majority: The Frazier-Ali fight was freighted with cultural significance beyond an ordinary heavyweight title. AP ‘The hour of truth has uh- rahhhvvvd!” said ...

Ali and Frazier meet again -- only this time, it's Laila and Jacqui. Some years the message was unintelligible, but that didn't mean us kids didn't know what it said. I can hear the mantra in my ...

But the upcoming "Ali-Frazier I: One Nation ... Divisible," which debuts Thursday, is on a whole new level. With all due respect to the much-honored documentary about the Ali-Foreman fight ...

For the rest of us, what we most remember about Joe Frazier is Muhammad Ali. We remember Ali calling Frazier “ugly,” an “Uncle Tom” and, especially, a “gorilla.” And even those of us ...