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Joe Frazier: A champion, not a celebrity

  November 10, 2011

Joe Frazier was not Muhammad Ali. He was not a cultural icon and he did not make political statements. He just hit people for a living, often with his famed left hook. Frazier, who died on Monday at age 67, was a sharecropper’s son from South Carolina who moved up north to Philadelphia and became one of the greatest heavyweight boxers in history. Ali may have been more glamorous, but Joe Frazier was just as much of a champion.

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