The Upset Files

The Fighter Who Died Twice: How a Literal Dead Man Conquered Boxing

Episode Summary

In 1970, a washed-up heavyweight was pronounced clinically dead on an operating table. Eighteen months later, he knocked out Muhammad Ali. This is the impossible story of how Joe Frazier's near-death experience forged the most relentless fighter who ever lived—and the brutal psychological warfare that defined boxing's greatest rivalry.