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Fight of the Century: Smokin' Joe Frazier's Smashing Success

PHILADELPHIA -- Richard Nixon was rooting for Joe Frazier. That fact can be interpreted a number of ways, even by those who weren't born when Frazier took on Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden in the "Fight of the Century'' on March 8, 1971. So much more was on the line that night than the undisputed heavyweight...

Fight of the Century: Muhammad Ali's Legacy Grows in Defeat

Just outside of Madison Square Garden's 7th Avenue doors are soaring, decorated, celebratory columns of Garden historical splendor. A center one is plastered with a photograph and these words of a transcending boxing event that soon reaches 40 years old: ``THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY _ MARCH 8, 1971.'' Muhammad Ali vs. Joe...

Marco Antonio Barrera on Manny Pacquiao, Erik Morales, And More

LAS VEGAS -- On February 12, less than a month after his 37th birthday, five-time titlist Marco Antonio Barrera of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, scored a knockdown in each round on the way to a second-round stoppage of 43-year-old journeyman Jorge Arias of Providence, R.I. The win represented the 44th knockout, and the...

'Prophet, Towering Social, Political Figure' Muhammad Ali Turns 69

Former world heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali, turns 69 this Monday, two days after what would have been the 81st birthday of famous civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A national holiday honoring King Jr. is also being observed Monday. Nicknamed, "The Greatest," Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay in 1942,...

Promotional Rivals Bob Arum, Don King Unite

The differences between the two boxing sages are seemingly as endless as are their similarities. Top Rank Promotions CEO, Bob Arum, graduated from Harvard with a degree in law, while rival promoter, Don King, a once-jailed, former criminal, will tell you that "I graduated from the University of The Ghetto." King...

Joe Frazier News From the Web

05/25/12 Bluffs Butcher still same fun-loving guy who fought... Source: The Daily Nonpareil - Council Bluffs IA On this sunny afternoon, Bayliss Park is nearly silent.
05/23/12 Interviews: Mark Kozelek Source: Pitchfork Media "I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album."
05/20/12 Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame nod caps Joe Hand's... Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia PA On Sunday, standing among some of the state's boxing blue bloods at his induction into the Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame, Hand, 75, will again ask himself that question.
05/17/12 Clarke hopes to follow in footsteps of Frazier Source: Burton Mail - Burton upon Trent - Staffordshire - UK WHEN your boxing-mad father names you after the legendary Joe Frazier you must know there is a good chance you will be lacing up the gloves at some stage of your life.
05/16/12 UC to honor Dennis Janson Source: The Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati OH You can always count on Dennis Janson for a good story.

Background on Joe Frazier

Joseph William "Joe" Frazier (January 12, 1944 – November 7, 2011), also known as Smokin' Joe, was an American professional boxer and Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a one-fight comeback in 1981.

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