November 8, 2011
life: We are very sad to announce former heavyweight champ Joe Frazier died Monday night from liver cancer. Frazier fought three legendary bouts against Muhammad Ali. Unpublished, Joe Frazier in his dressing room after the fight | His face swollen and bruised, heavyweight champion Joe Frazier — stoic even in victory over his nemesis — makes himself presentable. “Frazier didn’t fight by going for the head, which a lot of other boxers did,” Shearer says. “He went after Ali’s body the whole fight, pounding away, taking terrible blows to the head. You know, you keep whacking at the base of the tree, and the three is going to come down. And that’s the story of their first fight.” (see more — NEVER-SEEN: Ali vs. Frazier, 1971)

life:

We are very sad to announce former heavyweight champ Joe Frazier died Monday night from liver cancer. Frazier fought three legendary bouts against Muhammad Ali.

Unpublished, Joe Frazier in his dressing room after the fight | His face swollen and bruised, heavyweight champion Joe Frazier — stoic even in victory over his nemesis — makes himself presentable.

“Frazier didn’t fight by going for the head, which a lot of other boxers did,” Shearer says. “He went after Ali’s body the whole fight, pounding away, taking terrible blows to the head. You know, you keep whacking at the base of the tree, and the three is going to come down. And that’s the story of their first fight.”

(see more — NEVER-SEEN: Ali vs. Frazier, 1971)

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