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One of my favourite boxers of all time; a true warrior deserving of respect. Hope you beat this cancer.Comment
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RIP great champComment
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Just wanted to stop in give the man a shout out smoken Joe was a beast one of the greatest!!!Comment
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hes my favorite heavyweight of all time. he inspired me in life to overcome adversity. my favorite fight to watch of his is the first jerry quarry fight. brilliant.Comment
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Legends never die..Comment
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Honestly, I wouldn't be watching boxing if it weren't for Joe Frazier. Growing up in Philadelphia, the man's name was legendary. As a small child I remember overhearing random sports conversations between my elders, and Joe's name always came up somehow. He was truly bigger than life around the City, and ascended to a level of respect and appreciation that still carries on today.
Perhaps even more than his accomplishments in the ring, I recall a few odd stories of people who had run into Joe somewhere within the City. There seemed to be no limit to the amount of stories like that : Whether they were broken down on the side of the road somewhere, and Joe stopped to help, or they bumped into him at a grocery store, or they just bumped into him walking down the street randomly.
To a small child like myself at the time, I found most adults to be fairly interesting, but I remember thinking to myself that this Frazier guy was different....He was something special, he HAD to be, to have all these adults speaking so fondly of him all the time.
Not that long after that, I began watching boxing. The sport has provided me with so many amazing memories of equally amazing fights, and where I was at the time, and who I was with, and what I was doing. Joe's career did the same for me as a young kid watching it all on VHS long after the fact, the fights may have been over for many, many years by the time I was born, but they were just as exciting to me as I'm sure they were to the people who watched them live.
Thanks for all the memories, Joe.Comment
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