Funeral set for Smokin Joe Frazier.

[powderman]

Funeral set for boxing legend Smokin' Joe Frazier  Funeral set for boxing legend Smokin' Joe Frazier   by AP WHAS11.com Posted on November 14, 2011 at 8:06 AM       PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Boxing greats are set to pay their respects to former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier at a private funeral.
The 67-year-old Frazier died last week after a short battle with liver cancer. A two-day public viewing was held at the Wells Fargo Center at the sports complex in South Philadelphia.
Fellow former champions Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes and Mike Tyson are expected to attend. Frazier and Ali squared off in a trio of legendary fights, including the Thrilla in Manila in 1975.
Ali won that epic contest, calling it the "closest thing to dying that I know of."
Four years earlier at Madison Square Garden, "Smokin' Joe" successfully defended his title and became the first man to defeat Ali.
Frazier was elected to the Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.


He was one of the greats. POWDERMAN. 

[spikehorn]

He was deffinately one of the greats, but remember foreman knocked him down six times in the first two rounds in 1973.

[powderman]

SPIKEHORN. Yes he did. Joe was a son of a sharecropper and grew up hard. I'm a big boxing fan and it saddend me to see the old greats fade away. I thought there were more boxing fans here. POWDERMAN.