Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Oct. 1, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Oct. 1, 1975, Muhammad Ali took on Joe Frazier in ...

Joe Bugner locked horns with some ferocious punchers during a golden era for heavyweight boxing. While he was unsuccessful in ...

Relatives of Philadelphia boxing legend ”Smokin’ Joe” Frazier headed to Kentucky to return the favor that Muhammad Ali did upon their father’s death. Jacquelyn Frazier-Lyde, the eldest daughter of the ...

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, ...

Boxers live out the marshal creeds of their truths and lies, under the blinding limelight, at the knife edge of death’s tragic enfolding, without recourse martyrdom or public restitutions for the ...

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, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Fifty years ago, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought the “Thrilla in Manila,” still considered the greatest and ...

LAS VEGAS – Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson and Anthony Joshua-Wladimir Klitschko are commonly considered boxing’s two biggest heavyweight events of this century. Tyson Fury feels his rematch against Deontay ...

The Goldin Touch episode 5 sees Ken Goldin uncover rare Ali and Frazier robes from the legendary Thrilla in Manila fight.

Fox Sports is reporting that boxing legend Muhammad Ali will be in attendance at the funeral of heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier, who died earlier this week of liver cancer. Ali and Larry ...

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 ...