joe frazier

We all know him as "Smokin Joe". The former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier has passed away after his battle with liver cancer. His personal trainer / manager said on Saturday that doctors did not know how long Frazier had left to live.

1970 - Joe Frazier knocked out Jimmy Ellis in the second round of their New York fight and became the world heavyweight boxing champion.   Joseph William "Joe" Frazier, known as Smokin' Joe, born January 12, 1944, is a former Olympic and World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a brief comeback in 1981...