Joseph William "Joe" Frazier, known as "Smokin" Joe, is a former Olympic and World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a brief comeback in 1981.

Boxing was a major hit in the 1960s and 1970s. Identically like the UFC in the 2000s and present day, boxing had a litany of big names. From Muhammad Ali to Sonny Liston to George Foreman, there ...

Frank Sinatra was working ringside, moonlighting as a photographer for Life magazine. Burt Lancaster, the Oscar-winning actor, was recast in the role of a color commentator. “I looked down from the ...

Professional prizefighters come in all shapes and sizes and from all manner of backgrounds and locales, from the inner city of Brooklyn to the countryside of Uzbekistan, from broken homes and loving ...

I Am Joe Frazier premieres on the CW Saturday, Feb. 22 at 9/8c. The special will help celebrate the rise of Joe Frazier, one of the most influential heavyweight boxers of all time. Viewers will see ...

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, ...

Joe Frazier’s death on Monday from liver cancer was overshadowed by the Penn State sex abuse scandal. Wasn’t that always the way with Joe? Something or somebody always seemed to steal his thunder. He ...

Fifty years later, Weatta Frazier Collins still remembered. Joe Frazier’s daughter was brought over with her mother to see her father at the hotel in Kingston, Jamaica, later that Monday night, Jan.

George Foreman, the former two-time world heavyweight champion, passed away on March 21, 2025, at the age of 76. The following article was originally published on January 21, 2023, to mark the 50th ...

Joe Bugner, a boxer who went the distance with Joe Frazier once and Muhammad Ali twice — once for the heavyweight title — and later became an actor and pro wrestler, died Monday in Brisbane, Australia ...

Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight boxing champ who died of liver cancer Nov. 7 at 67, won’t go down as the greatest fighter of all time. Muhammad Ali, the man with whom Frazier sparred so epically, ...