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An artist has been chosen to create a Philadelphia statue in honor of late hometown boxing great Joe Frazier.

It's a Mumford World So, Joe Frazier beat Muhammad Ali. The Grammys did their job. Order has been maintained. What happens next? Here are my predictions: Babel will return to the top of the albums chart next week. Jay Pharoah's inevitable yellow sui...

"The Rumble in the Jungle" and "Thrilla in Manila" may be more acclaimed, but "The Sunshine Showdown" -- Joe Frazier's 1973 heavyweight defense against George Foreman in Kingston, Jamaica -- led the way.

When South Carolina and LSU play each other this weekend, it will be a rare opportunity to see two defenses of this caliber on the field at the same time. Rod Gilmore breaks down both units and decides which one is (slightly) better.

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Oct. 1, 1975: To borrow a quote used in an ESPN Classic SportsCentury account of this third and final fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier: "Of all the men I fought, Sonny Liston was the scariest, George Foreman was the most powerful, Floyd Pat...

The WWE champion found another way to reference wrestling lore at Night of Champions.

Move over, Rocky. Make way for Smokin' Joe.

U.S. middleweight Claressa Shields dominated Kazakhstan's Marina Volnova in the semifinals of the first Olympic women's boxing tournament Wednesday, earning a spot in the gold-medal bout against Russia's Nadezda Torlopova.

The press in Cuba doesn't enjoy the same freedom ours does, so when word emerged that boxing star Teofilo Stevenson had died on June 11, I wondered how much of what would emerge would be truth and how much would be propaganda. I turned to Bobby Ca...

Joe Frazier's gym in Philadelphia has been named to the 2012 list of America's 11 Most Endangered HIstoric Places, the National Trust for Historice Preservation announced today.

Glenn Hoddle likens Chelsea's chances of beating Barcelona in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final to Joe Frazier knocking out Muhammad Ali in his prime.

Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. Knicks and Rangers playoff runs. The Concert for New York City. Political conventions. The Garden has hosted them all. And the building will play homage to them all after the second phase of Garden reconstruction...

He is 80 years old, and if I get to that place, and I told this to his face when he was in Brooklyn watching the ring action at the Aviator Complex on March 24, I do hope I am close to as vibrant, as with it, as in the game, as Don King still is. ...

If Anderson Silva doesn't win his fifteenth straight UFC fight, that means hell will have descended on Rio. That means the man in a foreign land, Chael Sonnen, went into Brazil and wrested the most elusive belt from the company's most dominant champi...

CALABASAS -- They play for him. His unwavering spirit is motivation. His passion for the game carries on. His recovery remains a possibility. The Calabasas High School boys' basketball team dedicated its season to fallen assistant coach J...

Muhammad Ali soaked in familiar cheers and chants along with a rendition of "Happy Birthday" on Saturday night as friends and admirers celebrated the boxing champ's coming 70th birthday at a party in his Kentucky hometown.