Ten iconic fights in five years. Remembering boxing's golden age through the lens of four heavyweight kings: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Ken Norton and Joe Frazier.

Norton, on the other hand, had been given a chance by numerous scribes prior to his championship go with Foreman in Caracas. He had beaten Ali and possessed the physical attributes, punching power ...

In 1988, for the taping of a film called Champions Forever, five former heavyweight title holders--Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Larry Holmes and Ken Norton--gathered in Las Vegas.

Ali in particular didn’t mind meeting a familiar foe, with three fights each against Norton and Frazier. For Norton, who died this week at the age of 70, fighting Ali didn’t just put him in ...

Ali avenged both his losses to Norton and Frazier in a three-fight stretch to earn the right to challenge Foreman and regain the world titles that were controversially stripped from him for ...

In an interview with RetroBoxingLive, legendary trainer Emanuel Steward, who coached the likes to Thomas Hearns, Lennox Lewis ...

Ali regained the heavyweight title in his next fight with Foreman, and four fights later, he met Frazier on Oct. 1, 1975, in their third bout known as the “Thrilla in Manila.” By then, Ali ...

Again, Norton pummeled Ali; no wonder the unanimous decision in Ali’s favour is controversial. In summary, Ali fought Norton twice. Foreman stopped Frazier twice in title shots.

And if Foreman’s knockout of Frazier wasn’t the biggest upset of 1973, then that designation had to go to Norton’s jaw-busting split-decision win over Muhammad Ali that March.

Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier 3. Date: Oct. 1, 1975 Location: Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Philippines; Following his merciless destruction at the hands of Foreman, and the points defeat to Ali ...

''On any given night all of us could beat the other,'' George Foreman said. ''I had Ken Norton's number and Joe Frazier's number. Ali had my number, and Norton had Ali's number.