Coordinates | 55°45′06″N37°37′04″N |
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Name | Smokin Joe Frazier |
Realname | Joseph William Frazier |
Caption | Frazier (center) presented with the Daily News Front Page Award in 2011 |
Nationality | American |
Nickname | "Smokin" Joe" |
Height | |
Reach | |
Weight | Heavyweight |
Birth date | January 12, 1944 |
Birth place | Beaufort, South Carolina, USA |
Home | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Style | Orthodox |
Total | 37 |
Wins | 32 |
Ko | 27 |
Losses | 4 |
Draws | 1 |
No contests | 0 |
Medaltemplates |
Joseph William "Joe" Frazier, (; born January 12, 1944), known as Smokin' Joe, is a former Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose notable professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a brief comeback in 1981.
Frazier emerged as the top contender in the late-1960s, defeating Jerry Quarry, Oscar Bonavena, Buster Mathis, Eddie Machen, Doug Jones and Jimmy Ellis en route to becoming undisputed heavyweight champion in 1970, and followed up by defeating Bob Foster and Muhammad Ali on points in the highly-anticipated "Fight of the Century" in 1971. Two years later Frazier lost his title when he was knocked out by George Foreman. He fought on beating Joe Bugner, losing a rematch to Ali, and beating Quarry and Ellis again.
Frazier's last world title challenge came in 1975, but he was beaten by Ali in their brutal rubbermatch. He retired in 1976 following a second loss to Foreman. He made a comeback in 1981, fighting just once, before retiring for good. The International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO) rates Frazier among the ten greatest heavyweights of all time. He is an inductee of both the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame.
Frazier's style was often compared to that of the legendary Henry Armstrong and also at times Rocky Marciarno. He was dependent on bobbing, weaving and wearing down his opponents with relentless pressure. His best known punch was a powerful left hook, which accounted for most of his knockouts. Compared to Ali's style, he was close enough to the ideal bruiser that some in the press and media characterized the bouts as the answer to the classic question: "What happens when a boxer meets with a brawler?"
Since retiring Frazier has made cameo appearances in several Hollywood movies, and two episodes of The Simpsons. His son Marvis became a boxer - trained by Frazier himself - although was unable to emulate his father's success. Frazier continues to train fighters in his gym in Philadelphia. His later years have seen the continuation of his bitter rivalry with Ali, in which the two periodically exchange insults, interspersed with brief reconciliations.
Rubin had his left hand and part of his forearm amputated a year before Joe was born. While Rubin and Dolly were in the car a friend named Arthur Smith, who was drunk at the time and was fond of meeting women, passed by and made a move for Dolly. He was refused. When Frazier's parents drove away Smith fired several bullets, hitting Dolly once in the foot and Rubin several times in the arm, which was hanging outside the car. Arthur Smith went to jail for the shooting, but didn't stay long. As Joe's Mother put it, "If you were a good workman, the white man took you out of jail and kept you busy on the farm." His parents owned a farm "which had 10 acres, and two mules, Buck and Jenny, to work them." Frazier had said the land was what country folk called "white dirt, which is another way of saying it isn't worth a damn." The Frazier family couldn't grow peas or corn on it, they were only able to grow cotton and watermelon.
In the early '50s, Joe's Father got a black and white television. His father, his mother and her brothers and other people from the neighborhood would come to watch boxing matches on it. Frazier's mother sold drinks for a quarter as they watched fighters like Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, Willie Pep, Rocky Graziano. One night Joe walked into the porch of his house when his Uncle Israel and noticed Joe's stocky build. "That boy there...that boy is gonna be another Joe Louis" he remarked. The words made an impression on Joe. At school, his classmates would give him a sandwich or a quarter to walk with them at final bell so that bullies would not mess with them. Joe remarked any "scamboogah" (a disrespectful, low-down and foul person) who got in my face would soon regret it: Billy Boy could kick anybody's ass." The next day after Joe was labelled the next Joe Louis, he got an old burlap sack and filled it with rags, corncobs, a brick in the middle and Spanish moss that grew on trees all over Beaufort County. He then tied a rope to it an hung the makeshift heavybag from an oak tree in the backyard where the mules were kept. "For the next 6, 7 years damn near every day I'd hit that heavybag for an hour at a time. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my Daddy's, or a stocking of my Momma's or sister's, and get to it" Joe remarked.
It was not long after Joe started working out that his left arm was seriously damaged because of the Frazier's ornery 300 pound hog. The hog was very nasty from time to time, but sometimes Joe could not resist teasing it. One day Joe poked the hog with a stick and ran away, but someone had left the gate to the pigpen open and the hog ran through the gate, chasing Joe. In his hurry, Joe fell and hit his left arm on a brick. The arm was torn badly, but as the Frazier family was unable to pay for a Doctor, the arm had to heal on its own. The arm eventually did heal, but Joe was never able to keep it fully straight again. It was crooked and lacking a full range of motion. But as it existed, it was though it was cocked for the left hook – permanently cocked.
By the time Joe was 15 years old, he had been working on a farm for a family called the Bellamy's. They where both white men, Mac who was the younger of the two and more easy going, and Jim who was a little rougher and somewhat backward. One day a little black boy of about 12 years old, screwed up one of the Bellamy's tractors without meaning too. Jim Bellamy became so enraged he took off his belt and whipped the boy with his belt right there in the field. Joe saw the event and went back to the packing house on the farm and told his black friends what he had seen. It wasn't long before Jim Bellamy saw Joe and asked him why did he tell people what he had witnessed. Joe then told Bellamy he didn't know what he was talking about, but Bellamy didn't believe Joe and threatened Joe to get off the farm before he took off his belt again. Joe told him he better keep his pants up because he wasn't going to use his belt on him. Jim then analyzed Joe for a bit and eventually said "Go on, get the hell outta here." Joe knew from that moment it was time for him to leave Beaufort, he could only see hard times and low-rent for himself. Even his Momma could see it. She told Joe "Son, if you can't get along with the white folks, then leave home because I don't want anything to happen to you."
The train fare from Beaufort to the cities up North was pretty steep, and the closet bus-stop was in Charleston, 96 miles away. Luckily by 1958, the bus (The Dog, as called by locals in Beaufort) had finally made Beaufort a stop on its South Carolina route. Joe had a brother, Tommy, in New York. He was told he could stay with Tommy and his family. Joe had to save up a bit before he could make the bus trip to New York and still have some money in his pocket, and he went to work for the local Coca-Cola plant. Joe remarked the white guy would drive the truck and he would do the real work, stacking and unloading the crates. Joe stayed with Coca-Cola until the government began building houses for the marines stationed over at Parris Island, when he was hired on a work crew. 9 months had eventually passed from when he got the boot from the Bellamy farm. One day, with no fanfare, no tearful goodbyes, Joe packed quickly and got the first bus heading northward. "I climbed on the Dog's back and rode through the night" Joe remarked. "It was 1959, I was 15 years old and I was on my own."
Mathis had worn his trunks very high, ("darm near up to his titties") so that when Joe hit Mathis with legitimate body shots the referee took a dim view of them. In the 2nd round, the referee had gone so far as to penalize Joe 2 points for hitting below the belt. "In a 3 round bout a man can't afford a pounds deduction like that." Joe would say. Joe then returned to Philadelphia as lowdown as he'd ever been, and was even thinking about giving up boxing. But Duke Nugent and his trainer Yank Durham were able to talk Joe out of his doldrums and even suggested Joe make the trip to Tokyo as an alternate for Mathis. Joe went to Tokyo in the end, in case something happened to Mathis. While there, Joe was a workhorse, sparring with any of the Olympic boxers who wanted some action. "Middleweight, light heavyweight, it didn't matter to me, I got in there and boxed all comers" Joe would say. In contrast, Mathis was screwing off. In the morning, when the Olympic team would do their roadwork, Mathis would run a mile, then start walking saying "Go ahead, big Joe. I'll catch up."
Towards the end of the training camp, arrangements were made to put on an exhibition for the military brass at Fort Hamilton. That night, Mathis hit Joe with a shot on the head and felt pain in his hand. The next day he said he'd busted a knuckle, which meant he was out and Joe was going to take his place. Joe later expressed doubt over whether really busted his knuckle. Mathis was out, and it hardly seemed to faze him. He saw Joe the next morning and was as chipper as could be. At the boxing event, Joe knocked out George Oywello of Uganda out in the 1st round, then Athol McQueen of Australia out 40 seconds into the 3rd round. He was then into the semi-final, as the only American boxer left, facing the 6 foot 4, 230 lb Russian Vadim Yemelyanov.
"My left hook was a heat seeking missile, careening off his face and body time and again. Twice in the 2nd round I knocked him to the canvas. But as I pounded away, I felt a jolt of pain shoot through my left arm. Oh damn, the thumb." Joe would say. Joe knew immediately the thumb of his left hand was damaged, though he wasn't sure as to the extent. "In the midst of the fight, with your adrenaline pumping, it's hard to gauge such things. My mind was on more important matters. Like how I was going to deal with Yemelyanov for the rest of the fight." Fortunately, there was no rest of the fight. The Russian's handlers decided their man had no chance, and threw in the towel. At 1:49 if the 2nd round, the referee raised Joe's injured hand in victory.
Now Joe was into the final, he didn't mentioned his broken thumb to anyone. He went back to his room and soaked his thumb in hot water and Epson salts. "Pain or not, Joe Frazier of Beaufort, South Carolina, was going for gold." Joe proclaimed. Joe would fight a 30 year old German mechanic named Hans Huber, who failed to make it on the German Olympic wrestling team. By now Joe was used to fighting bigger guys, but he was not used to doing it with a damaged left hand. When the opening bell sounded on fight night, Joe came out and started winging punches, he threw his right hand more than usual that night. Every so often he'd used his left hook, but nothing landed with the kind of impact he managed in previous bouts. Under Olympic rules, 5 judges judge a bout, and that night 3 voted for Joe.
Frazier turned professional in 1965, defeating Woody Goss by a technical knockout in the first round. He won three more fights that year, all by knockout, none going past the third round.
Joe's second contest was of interest in that he was decked in the first round. Mike Bruce in only his 5th contest himself had won 3 of his previous 4 - Ring Encyclopedia informs. He'd go on a long career. For information, by the close of 1970 Bruce had won only 7 of his 37 fights and 1 draw but he kept going. Bruce fought Jack O'halloran twice. Perhaps surprisingly, several other name fighters would later still battle with Bruce in the middle of their careers. Just shows that not everyone can be a world champion. But Mike Bruce at least decked a future world champ to be. Frazier here got a 3rd round stoppage.
In 1966, as Frazier's career was taking off, Durham contacted Los Angeles trainer Eddie Futch. The two men had never met, but Durham had heard of Futch through the latter's reputation as one of the most respected trainers in boxing. Frazier was sent to Los Angeles to train, before Futch agreed to join Durham as an assistant trainer. With Futch's assistance, Durham arranged three fights in Los Angeles against Al Jones, veteran contender Eddie Machen, and George "Scrapiron" Johnson. Frazier knocked out Jones and Machen, but surprisingly went 10 rounds with journeyman Johnson to win a unanimous decision. Johnson had apparently bet all his purse that he'd survive to the final bell, noted Ring magazine, and somehow he achieved it.
After the Johnson match, Futch became a full-fledged member of the Frazier camp as an assistant trainer and strategist, who advised Durham on matchmaking. It was Futch who suggested that Frazier boycott the 1967 WBA heavyweight elimination tournament to find a successor to Muhammad Ali, after the heavyweight champion was stripped of his title for refusing to be inducted into the military, although Frazier was the top-ranked contender at the time.
Futch proved invaluable to Frazier as an assistant trainer, helping modify his style. Under his tutelage, Frazier adopted the bob-and-weave defensive style, making him more difficult for taller opponents to punch, while giving Frazier more power with his own punches. While Futch remained based in Los Angeles, where he worked as a supervisor with the U.S. Postal Service, he was flown to Philadelphia to work with Frazier during the final preparations for all of his fights.
When Durham died in 1973, Futch was asked to succeed him as Frazier's head trainer and manager. In fact, Futch was training heavyweight contender Ken Norton at the time. He was in Norton's corner in March 1973, when Norton broke Ali's jaw and won a split decision. After Norton lost the rematch to Ali in September 1973, Norton's managers, Robert Biron and Aaron Rivkind, demanded that Futch choose between training Frazier and Norton. Futch chose Frazier, but not without regret at being forced to make the choice.
But then in 1967 Frazier stormed ahead winning all six of his fights, including a sixth-round knockout of Doug Jones and a fourth-round brutal technical knockout (TKO) of Canadian George Chuvalo. Nobody had ever stopped Chuvalo before.
By February 1967 Joe had scored 14 wins, all by KO. His name was starting to appear a lot more often in boxing, with Frazier appearing on the cover of Ring Magazine highlighting this. In this month he met Ali, who hadn't yet been stripped of his title. Ali said Joe would never stand a chance of whopping him, not even in his wildest dreams. Later that year, Muhammad Ali was stripped of his world heavyweight title due to his refusal to be inducted into the military during the Vietnam War.
To fill the vacancy, the New York State Athletic Commission held a bout between Frazier and Buster Mathis, with the winner to be recognized as "World Champion" by the state of New York. Although the fight was not recognized as a World Championship bout by some, Frazier won by a knockout in the 11th round and staked a claim to the heavyweight championship. He then his title by beating hard hitting then prospect Manuel Ramos of Mexico in two rounds.
He closed 1968 by again beating Oscar Bonavena via a 15-round decision in a hard-fought rematch. Oscar had gone somewhat defensive being often bulled to the ropes. It let Frazier build a wide points margin but Oscar again left with head held high and fans respect.Ring magazine showed Bonavena afterwards with gruesomely bruised face. It had been a punishing match.
1969 saw Frazier defend his New York title in Texas, beating Dave Zyglewicz, who'd only lost once in 29 fights, by a first-round knockout. Then he beat Jerry Quarry in a 7th round stoppage. The competitive, exciting match with Quarry was named 1969 Ring Magazine fight of the year. Frazier showed he could do a lot more than just slug. He'd avoided many of Quarry's best determined shots and then countered in his 'smoking' mode.
In his first title defense, Frazier traveled to Detroit to fight legendary world light-heavyweight champion Bob Foster, who had set a record for the number of defenses in the light-heavyweight division. Frazier (26-0) retained his title by thunderous knock-out in two rounds. Then came what was quickly dubbed the "Fight Of The Century", his first fight with Ali. This would be the first meeting of two undefeated heavyweight champions, since Ali (31-0) had not lost his title in the ring, but rather been stripped because of his refusal to be inducted in the Armed Forces.
Several factors came together for Frazier in this fight. He was 27 years old and at his lifetime peak boxing wise, physically and mentally, while Ali, 29, was coming back from a three-year absence but had kept in training, taking on Frazier soon after a bruising battle with Oscar Bonavena, whom Ali had defeated by a TKO in 15. In fact the win inspired Ali that he was ready for Frazier. Joe himself had trained with famed coach Eddie Futch, who had developed a strategy based on Ali's tendency to throw the right-hand uppercut from a straight standing position after dropping the hand in preparation to throw it with force. Futch instructed Frazier to watch Ali's right hand and, at the moment Ali dropped it, to throw a left hook at the spot where they knew Ali's face would be a second later. Frazier's major staggering of Ali in the 11th round and his knock-down of Ali in the 15th were both executed precisely in this way.
In a brutally competitive contest, Frazier lost a number of early rounds but took Ali's combinations without backing down. As Ali started to slow in the middle rounds, Frazier came on strong, landing hard shots to the body as well as the powerful left hooks to the head.
Consequently, Frazier won a clear, 15-round, unanimous decision. Ali was taken to the hospital immediately after the fight to have his badly swollen jaw x-rayed, and Frazier spent time in the hospital during the ensuing month, the exertions of the fight having been exacerbated by his existing health problems, such as hypertension and a kidney infection. Some while later he did a 3round exhibition against Cleveland Williams.
In 1972, Frazier successfully defended the title twice, beating Terry Daniels and Ron Stander, both by knockout, in the fourth and fifth rounds respectively. It's worth noting Daniels had drawn with Jerry Quarry and Stander had KO'd Earnie Shavers.
Frazier won his next fight, a 12-round tough decision over Joe Bugner in London to begin his quest to regain the title. Many felt it Bugner's best career effort.
Frazier finished 1974 with a much awaited rematch against top Jerry Quarry. A wicked left hook to the ribs giving a five round stoppage although Quarry had tried to go on he clearly couldn't. An impressive win.
In 1975 Frazier rematched Jimmy Ellis, the man from whom he had originally taken the WBA title, in Melbourne, Australia, knocking him out again. This time in nine rounds. The win made him once again the number one challenger for the world crown, now held by Ali, after an eighth-round knockout of George Foreman in the famous "Rumble in the Jungle".
The fight was far more action-filled than the previous encounter (there was no belt at stake in the second fight), and was a punishing display that ended when Eddie Futch stopped the fight before the 15th and final round with Frazier. Ali always maintained it was his toughest ever contest. The extreme heat alone made it an amazing effort from both.
Frazier made a cameo appearance in the movie Rocky later in 1976 and dedicated himself to training local boxers in Philadelphia, where he grew up, including some of his own children. He helped train Duane Bobick a while.
Since then, Frazier has involved himself in various endeavors. Among his sons who turned to boxing as a career, he helped train Marvis Frazier, a challenger for Larry Holmes's world heavyweight title, and trains his daughter, Jackie Frazier-Lyde, whose most notable fight to date was a close points loss against Laila Ali, the daughter of his rival.
Frazier's overall record is 32 wins, 4 losses and 1 draw, with 27 wins by knockout. He won 73 percent of his fights by knockout, compared to 60 percent for Ali and 84 percent for Foreman. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame.
In 1986, Frazier appeared as the "corner man" for Mr. T against Roddy Piper at WrestleMania 2 at Madison Square Garden. In 1989, Frazier joined Ali, Foreman, Norton and Holmes for the tribute special Champions Forever.
Frazier appeared as himself in an episode of The Simpsons ("Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?") in 1992, in which he would beat up Barney Gumble. Frazier's son objected and was instead shown beating up Gumble and putting him in a trash can. He appeared in another episode of The Simpsons ("Homer's Paternity Coot") in 2006. Since the debut of the Fight Night series of games, Frazier appeared in Fight Night 2004, Fight Night Round 2, Fight Night Round 3, Fight Night Round 4, and Fight Night Champion, games made by EA Sports.
Frazier's autobiography is titled Smokin' Joe and he was widely criticized by Ali fans for relating many of Ali's actions that he considered offensive. Some feel that Frazier has hurt himself with his unrelenting bitterness toward Ali. In 1996, when Ali lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta, Frazier told a reporter that he would like to throw Ali into the fire. Frazier made millions of dollars in the 70's, but the article cited mismanagement of real-estate holdings as a partial explanation for his economic woes. Frazier has repeated that he no longer has any bitter feelings towards Ali.
Frazier is still training young fighters, although he needed multiple operations for back injuries sustained in a car accident. It has been reported that he and Ali recently attempted a reconciliation, but as of October 2006 Frazier still claimed to have won all three bouts between the two. He declared to a Times reporter, when questioned about his bitterness toward Ali, "I am what I am."
Asked about his situation, Frazier became playfully defensive, but would not reveal his financial status.
“Are you asking me how much money I have?” he said. “I got plenty of money. I got a stack of $100 bills rolled up over there in the back of the room.”
Frazier blamed himself, partly, for not effectively promoting his own image.
Frazier-Lyde is a lawyer and has worked on her father’s behalf in pursuit of money they claim he was owed in a Pennsylvania land deal. In 1973, Frazier purchased 140 acres in Bucks County, Pa., for $843,000. Five years later, a developer agreed to buy the farmland for $1.8 million. Frazier received annual payments from a trust that bought the land with money he had earned in the ring. When the trust went out of business, the payments stopped.
Frazier sued his business partners, claiming that his signature was forged on documents and that he had no knowledge of the sale. In the ensuing years, the land was subdivided and turned into a residential community. The property is now worth an estimated $100 million.
Joe Frazier petitioned President Nixon to have Ali's right to box reinstated setting up the whole series of matches. Frazier boycotted the 1967 WBA heavyweight elimination tournament to find a successor to Muhammad Ali, when the champion was stripped of the title.
After years of remaining bitter, Frazier told Sports Illustrated in May 2009 that he no longer held hard feelings for Ali.
"But he never paid me for none of my past. I only got paid for a walk-on part. Rocky is a sad story for me."Joe had his Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven separate pieces to divide it between his eleven children. In March, 2007, a Joe Frazier action figure was released as part of a range of toys based on the Rocky film franchise, developed by the American toy manufacturer, Jakks Pacific.
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