Manny Pacquiao is organizing “Thrilla in Manila 2” as a 50th anniversary event paying tribute to the iconic Ali-Frazier rubber match, but it looks like it will not live up to the original. Fifty years ...

A bright morning sun typically symbolizes the birth of a new day, the start of something potentially magnificent. In October 1975, after Muhammad Ali closed his historic trilogy with Joe Frazier in a ...

Fifty years ago, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier delivered one of the greatest fights boxing has ever seen. They went 14 rounds, trading bludgeonings for nearly 45 minutes before Ali emerged victorious.

Reflecting on what many consider the greatest heavyweight bout ever, Muhammad Ali knew he had been pushed closer to the brink of his physical and mental limits than any other fight in his career. Not ...

“Thrilla in Manila,” the latest look at the 1975 boxing match between heavyweights Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, manages the near-impossible feat of finding a fresh angle on one of the most documented ...

If you are not a boxing fan (I am not a boxing fan), the HBO documentary “Thrilla in Manila”-- the story of the Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali rivalry, as it played across three fights from 1971 to 1975 -- ...

MANILA, PhilippinesMANILA, Philippines — The epic 1975 Thrilla in Manila focused the world’s attention on boxing greats Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. But for the host, Philippine strongman Ferdinand ...

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, ...

After weeks of anticipating tonight's HBO night devoted to my favorite sport in the world I must say overall I was rather content. Just like any boxing fan, we are more than appreciative whenever HBO ...

It was 40 years ago—on Oct. 1, 1975—that Muhammad Ali took on Joe Frazier in a boxing match that would go down as one of the sport’s greatest. As should surprise nobody familiar with his talent for ...

Fifty years ago, the world watched as two heavyweight legends engaged in what may be the greatest boxing match ever. On Oct. 1, 1975, at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Philippines, Muhammad Ali ...

If the riveting boxing documentary Thrilla In Manila were fiction, it’d be derided as hopelessly melodramatic and wildly implausible. The details seem too good and too colorful to be true: a ...