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50 years ago a boxing match stopped the world, now the sport could barely stop traffic — could baseball be next?

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of “The Fight Of The Century,” the first of three Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali fights. Even though it took place a decade before I was born, anyone can glean the importance of it by listening to just about anyone who was alive at the time talk about it or even read […]

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50 years ago today, Ali and Frazier stepped into the ring and delivered a divided nation its greatest sporting spectacle

Professional 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. Read more…

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