Ron Frazier

Tonight marked the first world title fight in Omaha, Nebraska since 1972 when Jose Frazier fought Ron Stander for Frazier's World Heavyweight Title. The Century Link Center was the host cite for tonight's card. Crawford_Gamboa_140628_001a. Photo: Chris …

Conversation swiftly pivoted to the heavyweight era in which Frazier plied his trade, one that was as much a golden age for boxing's marquee division as the '80s were for the welters and middleweights. It was the misfortune of many heavyweights of the…

Denver's Ron Lyle, the son of a preacher father and missionary mother who brawled with the best during a golden age of boxing heavyweights, died Saturday morning. He was 70. With Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier and others,…

I long for the 1970s again, the golden age of heavyweight boxing, when fights featuring Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ken Norton, Ron Lyle and Ernie Shavers were must-see events. Larry Holmes managed to keep the 1980s afloat until a force…