“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 ...

Shearer stuck with Frazier, capturing images of the winner celebrating while looking, as the photographer puts it, “beaten pillar to post” but happy. Though Ali would come back, and swinging ...

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 ...

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.

(AP) - It was 40 years ago Tuesday that Ali and Frazier met at Madison Square Garden ... where Frank Sinatra shot pictures at ringside, celebrities jockeyed for prime seats, and almost as many ...

Muhammad Ali, 31-0, would fight Joe Frazier, 26-0. It was a time when boxing mattered, when it often shoved aside the likes of pro football and pro basketball for prime space on newspaper sports ...