Smokin’ Joe Frazier is the featured boxer in this edition of the Top 5 Notable Wins series, and with Frazier, picking 5 is a really tricky business – much trickier than with the previous installments involving fellow heavyweight champions and Hall of Famers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. » Read Full Article
Mark Kram Jr. New Biography On The Great Joe Frazier Coming Soon
- Leave a CommentMark Kram Jr, the son of the late Sports Illustrated writer who also penned the quite superb, and somewhat controversial, ‘Ghosts of Manila’ book in 2001, has a new book coming out, on heavyweight great Joe Frazier. » Read Full Article
The Fight Of The Century and the two giants who provided it
- Leave a CommentAs surely any boxing fan knows, it was on this day – 47 long years ago – when Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, the two greatest heavyweights of their era, met in the fabled “Fight of The Century.” This battle, an incredible 15 round war, actually lived up to the hype, to its billing. » Read Full Article
Champions (not quite) Forever: Ali, Frazier, Norton and the sadness of their final fights
- Leave a CommentIt’s proven so, so hard for a number of great fighters to exit the sport on a win. » Read Full Article
45 years ago today: “Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!”
- Leave a CommentA long 45 years ago today, a young and undefeated fighter from Texas named George Foreman met a near 3-1 betting favourite in the form of the likewise unbeaten “Smokin’” Joe Frazier, as the Philadelphia warrior attempted to defend his world title for a fifth time.The two punchers met in Kingston, Jamaica in a bout dubbed “The Sunshine Showdown,” and those fans who witnessed the fight saw a shockingly violent affair, where the 24-year-old challenger with the 37-0 record utterly annihilated the 29-0 world ruler. » Read Full Article
“Smokin’” Joe Frazier’s daughter launches petition for Philly street to be named after him
- Leave a CommentMuhammad Ali has a street named after him, so too does the flamboyant promoter who earned millions from the epic battles Ali and his fiercest rival, “Smokin’” Joe Frazier thrilled the entire world with. » Read Full Article
When the action was so great they did it three times: Boxing’s finest trilogies
- Leave a CommentSometimes a fight is so great, we simply have to see it again. » Read Full Article
“Smokin’” Joe as Clubber Lang! It almost happened says Sly Stallone
- Leave a CommentJoe Frazier’s loss became Laurence Tureaud’s gain. According to Sylvester Stallone, the legendary former heavyweight king was all set to take the part of Clubber Lang in the third installment of the fantastic “Rocky” series, only for “Smokin’” Joe to suffer a flashback in pre-movie sparring with Sly, hitting him with a shot that opened up a nasty cut, requiring six stitches. » Read Full Article
Joe Frazier still not getting enough respect – TV news channel wishes him happy 73rd birthday?!?
-Heavyweight legend Joe Frazier would have been 73 years old today, January 12. » Read Full Article
Five years ago today…… boxing lost a true heavyweight great
-Imagine how highly heavyweight warrior Joe Frazier would be rated today if he had retired after he had, as he himself put it, “closed the butterfly’s lips” in March of 1971. » Read Full Article