Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

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.

Once all the papers were signed and the fight was officially on, Muhammad Ali knew exactly what to do. The master quipster, fight-promoting wizard and most famous and outrageous boxer in the world — ...

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 ...

It was the perfect bookend to the first one, which was the greatest sporting event in world history. And, for pure tenacity, this one was even better. Oct. 1, 1975 — 50 years since Joe Frazier met ...

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, ...

UNDATED (CBS Newspath/WKRC) - The boxing trunks that Muhammad Ali wore in the 1975 fight with Joe Frazier are officially up for auction. "Thrilla in Manilla" was the third and final time that the two ...

One could argue that Ali-Frazier III was the contest that both defined the 1970s heavyweight era and what marked the beginning of its end, simply because the two greatest big men of that decade ...

Promotional advertisement for the Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier heavyweight fight on October 1, 1975, printed in green and red ink with small portraits of Ali and Frazier, both in red. On the left side ...

Speaking in a resurfaced interview, Frazier made no mistake in naming Joe Louis as the greatest heavyweight of all time in his opinion, overlooking former rival Ali who many actually consider to be ...

As the great and good of boxing past and present lined up to pay tribute to the heavyweight icon George Foreman, it was inevitable that Turki Alashikh would have a few words. Former two-time world ...