Sonny Padilla shares limelight with Ali and Frazier in ‘Thrilla’

Sonny Padilla (center)CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

The second meeting between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in their historic and brutal trilogy came on January 28, 1974, three years after the first on March 8, 1971 when the then defending world heavyweight titleholder ‘Smokin’ Joe dealt the newly-reinstated draft-dodger his first loss in his career.