Joe Frazier obituary

- (guardian.co.uk/sport/boxing) - 6 months, 2 weeks ago...

Former world heavyweight boxing champion with a much-feared left hookFor all Joe Frazier achieved, the former world heavyweight boxing champion, who has died of liver cancer aged 67, was destined to remain in the shadow of his nemesis, Muhammad Ali, who twice beat him in the most famous trilogy of fights the sport has ever produced. The third of those 1970s encounters ? memorably dubbed the "Thrilla in Manila" ? is generally remembered as the greatest fight of all time.A crowd-pleasing heavyweig...

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