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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his hotel room the morning after, Muhammad Ali nursed a swollen jaw as the room service waiter arrived with breakfast and good wishes for the man he called champ. "I'm not the champ," Ali corrected ...

Muhammad Ali produced arguably the most compelling performance of his illustrious career to dethrone murderous puncher George Foreman back in 1974. ‘The Greatest’ entered his legendary contest in ...

Fifty years on from the Thrilla in Manila, this is the first landmark anniversary of the consensus greatest heavyweight title fight of all time where neither of the combatants remain with us. Joe ...

Such was Muhammad Ali’s position in our culture on March 31, 1973 that when Ken Norton broke Ali’s jaw in the first round in San Diego and went on to capture a split decision, the New York Times made ...

Ken Norton, the 70s heavyweight powerhouse best known for handing Muhammad Ali one of his few losses, died Wednesday at a veterans medical facility where he had been recovering from a stroke. He was ...

It has been 50 years since the “Rumble in the Jungle,” and we’re still talking about it. There have been books written about it (Norman Mailer’s “The Fight”), films made about it (“When We Were Kings” ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Muhammad Ali was among the nearly 4,000 people who packed the ...

Ali still had the skills to beat almost every other fighter, but he couldn’t overcome Frazier’s sheer determination. “If Joe Frazier would have fought King Kong he would have knocked him out that ...