To Burt Watson, Joe Frazier was more than just one of the greatest boxers who ever lived. Frazier, the former heavyweight champion who died Monday of liver cancer at 67, won perhaps the most ...

Family, friends, and dignitaries gathered to honor the legacy of the late boxing icon Joe Frazier on what would have been his 81st birthday on Sunday. The Frazier family placed a Philadelphia Eagles ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The city of Philadelphia honored boxing legend Smokin' Joe Frazier by naming a street after him. Frazier's family and legendary boxer Larry Holmes. who hails from Easton ...

PHILADELPHIA — There had to be a better way to make money, Tom Hoover thought as he loaded boxes of toilet paper onto boxcars in the middle of the night. He would one day be Richard Pryor’s tour ...

Joe Frazier’s grandson is a classmate of my 10-year-old daughter’s. And yesterday she came home and wanted to talk about the boy’s sadness. The way he looked, the way he felt, the way he told her to ...

- (Reuters) - Reaction from the world of boxing to the death of former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier: Muhammad Ali, whose first defeat came against Frazier: "The world has lost a great champion. I ...

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, ...

If you are a true old-school boxing fan, you know where you watched the third Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight, a.k.a. “The Thrilla in Manila.” One of the greatest memories of my childhood came on ...

Fifty years ago, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier competed in what turned out to be one of the most brutal fights in the history of boxing. The pair met in the ring for “Thrilla in Manilla,” the third ...