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50 years ago today, Ali and Frazier stepped into the ring and delivered a divided nation its greatest sporting spectacleProfessional boxing had come a long way in the half-century that preceded March 8, 1971, the night Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali stepped into the Madison Square Garden ring for what remains history’s greatest heavyweight championship fight....

How The Crooks, The Cons, And The Legends Built America's Largest Stadium For The Beating Of The CenturyToledo was a place where you could fight a man for money....

Young Gun: Dempsey Pounds WillardSlide on over to Deadline Artists for this look into the past—Grantland Rice's 1919 column on the Jack Dempsey Jess Willard fight:...

Knock 'Em Out The Box: Sport For Art's Sake

From the Sports Curator comes this 1921 Heywoood Broun column for the New York World:...