Comments Thread For: Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier Feud Was Vicious, Lasted For Decades

[jri9d0]

The piece was called "White Man's Champ?"

Yeah, I think that's it. Have you read it?

[LacedUp]

Yeah, I think that's it. Have you read it?

I just saw the Ali & Frazier clip on Dick Cavett before their 2nd fight and also the Ali's "this is your life".

Man, Frazier was a fine man. And you could see how Ali respected him more than maybe any other opponent he had.

And Frazier talked back.

[LacedUp]

I remember seeing somewhere that then sport's journalist Bryant Gumble wrote a piece on Joe Frazier during the Ali/Frazier 1 fight pretty much siding with Ali in calling Frazier an Uncle Tom.

And although Gumble acknowledge on air it was wrong and a harsh piece I don't think he ever officially apologized to Joe or the Frazier family.

I think Gumble was extremely pro Ali by all accounts.

But it actually all boils down to the fact that Frazier was a lot of things Ali really respected. As we came to know later on.