For a city whose history runs deep with 19th century bareknuckle fighters like Jimmy Weeden and Billy Walker and boxing Hall of Famers like Jack Dempsey— Joe Frazier is as important to that ...

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 ...

Several years ago when I was commuting around Philadelphia — I drove past the iconic gym where the legendary Joe Frazier trained on North Broad Street. A colleague who traveled with me knew ...

Let’s take a look at the two former Olympic Gold Medalists and world heavyweight champions Muhammad ‘The Greatest’ Ali and ‘Smokin’ Joe Frazier. Both were born in the south. Ali in ...

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 ...

The former boxer proved that it’s never too late to transform into something greater — a message of hope in these difficult times.

The title of "The Baddest Man on the Planet" has been bestowed on many a heavyweight champion in boxing history. At his peak, it was hard to argue that George Foreman did anything but live up to ...

‘The Greatest’ had many performances that you could debate were his best. From Muhammad Ali knocking out George Foreman to his epic trilogy with Joe Frazier, picking a favorite fight of the former ...

Larry Holmes once predicted what he believes would have happened in a fantasy fight between Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier. Also known as ‘The Easton Assassin’, Holmes wrote his name into boxing folklore ...

Joe Bugner was very much a gifted heavyweight who was so often on the receiving end of a bad wrap: “Too negative.” “Safety first.” “Uncommitted,” and so on and so forth. In a nutshell ...

If, for example, you happened to watch Andre Ward interview Joe Calzaghe for over an hour on his YouTube show The Art of Ward (All the Smoke Fight), you will have been reminded of how it feels to ...

Former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman died Friday, his family announced through his Instagram account. He was 76 years old. No cause of death was provided. He was described as having ...