PHILADELPHIAPHILADELPHIA — Smokin’ Joe will headline one more boxing card. The family of Joe Frazier is set to honor the former heavyweight champion with a slate of bouts in Atlantic City, New Jersey ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The city of Philadelphia honored boxing legend Smokin' Joe Frazier by naming a street after him. Frazier's family and legendary boxer Larry Holmes. who hails from Easton ...
It’s been 46 years since Philadelphia boxer 'Smokin’ Joe' Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden during the “Fight of the Century.” The city honored its favorite non-fictional boxing ...
Talking to my brother late last week, I learned he was every bit as devastated by Joe Frazier’s death as I was. That was odd, considering that a little over 36 years before Frazier died, we were both ...
Boxing was a major hit in the 1960s and 1970s. Identically like the UFC in the 2000s and present day, boxing had a litany of big names. From Muhammad Ali to Sonny Liston to George Foreman, there ...
NEW YORK Muhammad Ali described his third and final fight with Joe Frazier as "death, closest thing to dyin' that I know of." Frazier recalls their brutal matchup outside Manila as something much less ...
The family of Joe Frazier is set to honor the former heavyweight champion with a slate of bouts in Atlantic City, New Jersey — site of his parents’ first date, his son noted — to celebrate what would ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Smokin’ Joe will headline one more boxing card. The family of Joe Frazier is set to honor the former heavyweight champion with a slate of bouts in Atlantic City, New Jersey — site ...