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Birth of Joe Frazier
Joseph William Frazier was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States -
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Smokin' Joe Frazier
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Golden gloves heavyweight championship
Joe won these championship during 1962-64 -
Frazier wins gold at Olympics
Joe Frazier Went to Olympics because Buster Mathis was injured, he went onto win the gold even though he had a broken thumb. -
Joe turns Pro
Joe turned professional with help from famous sportswriter Larry Merchant. -
Frazier vs Bob Foster
Joe Beats Bob Foster for the Light Heavyweight Championship -
Frazier Vs Ali- ‘Fight of the century’
Many famous faces in the audience of that famous fight including Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross, Woody Allan and Dustin Hoffman were among them. This was the first of three fights against Ali, Frazier won this time. -
Frazier vs George Foreman
Joe Lost his title to George Forman in Kingston, Jamaica. -
Second fight with Ali
Non tile fight against Muhammad Ali in new york city Frazier lost. -
Trilla in Manila Frazier vs Ali
Trilla in Manila, Last fight against Ali, after 14 grueling round Frazier lost. this took place in Philippines. -
Second fight with George Foreman
Frazier asked to fight Forman again, he lost that fight and retired from professional boxing, he also made a cameo appearance in the film Rocky. -
Joe frazier and the Knockouts
Joe created the funk soul group ‘Joe Frazier and the knockouts’. -
Frazier attemps comback
Frazier attempted a comeback against Floyd “jumbo” Cummings, after their draw Joe retied from boxing indefinitely. -
Smokin' Joe in The Simpsons
Joe made an appearance in the popular animated cartoon the Simpsons -
The Autobiography released
The release of, Smokin’ Joe: The Autobiography of a Heavyweight Champion of the World. Also he was famously quoted saying after watching Ali lite the Olympic flame that he would have thrown him into to the fire. -
Frazier sells famous boxing gym
Joe sold his famous boxing gym in Philadelphia -
Joe revives music interest
Joe Revived his music interests, most notably his cover of the famous jazz song ‘Mustang Sally’ -
Joe Frazier death
Joe Frazier was diagnosed with liver cancer within a few weeks the cancer metastasized, Joe Frazier died on the 7th of November 2011.
