I hope you guys don't mind but I have a funny story that involves Joe Frazier. In 1989 I boxed in Atlantic City on a USA Network card. We also had a heavyweight from Louisville that fought on the card. Joe Frazier had a couple of fighters from his gym on the card. Later that night we went down to the casino because we had been told that our heavyweight was about to get in a fight with someone there. We saw him in the corner with a bunch of security around him and when we asked our guy what was going on he said: "Joe Frazier don't like nobody talking to his daughter!"

Yep our heavyweight was about to get his azz whipped by an old Joe Frazier.

Joe has had a lot of health issues, the three fights with Ali took a huge physical toll on both of them. Joe held a grudge against Ali for years. He didn't like the way Ali called him the gorilla and things of that nature. Lot of people don't know this, but when Ali was banned from boxing for not going to Vietnam, Frazier, who was heavyweight champion at the time, used to give Ali money to help him out.

Joe was on lots of medication and he liked his bottle as well. His boxing gym in Philly has produced some dynamite fighters.

If you want a couple of good books about the two, read Frazier's autobiography "Smokin Joe" and also a book by Mark Kram titled "Ghosts of Manilla" abiout the Ali-Frazier trilogy.

Btw I think Frazier was the victim of a bad decision in their second bout and the third fight in Manilla he might have been winning as well before his trainer Eddie Futch stopped the fight before the start of the 15th round.