Boxing was a major hit in the 1960s and 1970s. Identically like the UFC in the 2000s and present day, boxing had a litany of big names. From Muhammad Ali to Sonny Liston to George Foreman, there ...

SMOKIN’ JOE Frazier was one of the toughest Pennsylvanians who ever lived. Though born in South Carolina, the former heavyweight boxing champion of the world spent most of his career and years of ...

“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 ...

Joe Frazier was a famous world champion in that era of boxing, which is still called golden today. Joe Frazier instilled fear in everyone, including Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, and his left hook ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Smokin’ Joe will headline one more boxing card. The family of Joe Frazier is set to honor the former heavyweight champion with a slate of bouts in Atlantic City, New Jersey — site ...

If you consider the self proclaimed greatest, Muhammad Ali #1 among all Heavyweight Champions, then where do you place Joe Frazier? I’m talking about the man who left hooked that ‘0’ off his record ...

For years, a statue of Philadelphia’s most famous fictional boxer – Rocky Balboa – has drawn crowds to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Soon, one of the city’s most accomplished real-life fighters – ...

Philadelphia’s Fifth District Councilmember Jeffery Young introduced a resolution Thursday calling for the city to save the former training ground of boxing heavyweight champion Joe Frazier. The ...

CARDIFF, Wales — 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 was ...

CARDIFF, Wales — 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 was ...

The family of Joe Frazier is set to honor the former heavyweight champion with a slate of bouts in Atlantic City, New Jersey — site of his parents’ first date, his son noted — to celebrate what would ...