Speaking in a resurfaced interview, Frazier made no mistake in naming Joe Louis as the greatest heavyweight of all time in his opinion, overlooking former rival Ali who many actually consider to be ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The city of Philadelphia honored boxing legend Smokin' Joe Frazier by naming a street after him. Frazier's family and legendary boxer Larry Holmes. who hails from Easton ...

George Foreman fought many legendary heavyweights in his career, but once revealed the man with the toughest chin of them all ...

In the 50 years since Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought the Thrilla in Manila, may as well add another 50 years in the future, too. There has never been another event like it. And there never will ...

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, ...

Joe Frazier was famous enough and sick enough before he died that obituaries for him today will be thorough reads, with a few details up high buffed in the final minutes before some old scribe clicked ...

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, ...

Muhammad Ali was there, his body frail and trembling in the throes of Parkinson’s disease. Fellow boxers Bernard Hopkins, Larry Holmes and Michael Spinks were there, too, among others, including ...

It’s been 46 years since Philadelphia boxer 'Smokin’ Joe' Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden during the “Fight of the Century.” The city honored its favorite non-fictional boxing ...

Joe Bugner, the former British heavyweight boxer who stood toe to toe with Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in the 1970s, has died at the age of 75. His death was confirmed on Sunday, August 31, 2025, at ...

CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — Joe Bugner, a heavyweight who took boxing greats Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier the distance in fights in the 1970s, has died. He was 75. The death of the Hungary-born Bugner, who ...