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Thrilla: An exhausting, excruciating epic

By Tim Graham
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Editor's note: Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of "The Thrilla In Manila," the final installment in the legendary Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier trilogy. In honor of this fight and in anticipation of Antonio Tarver-Roy Jones III on Saturday, ESPN.com explores boxing's -- and other sports' -- great trilogies this week. They were stripped bare, painfully vulnerable to each other's brutality. The torrent of a thousand punches in the sweltering heat, preceded by the erosion from too many remorseles ...

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