Joe Frazier is dead

Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion whose furious and intensely personal fights with a taunting Muhammad Ali endure as an epic rivalry in boxing history, died recently. He was 67.
His business representative told The Associated Press in early November that he had liver cancer and that he had entered hospice care.
Known as Smokin' Joe, he stalked his opponents around the ring with a crouching, relentless attack, his head low and bobbing, his broad, powerful shoulders hunched, as he bore down on them with an onslaught of withering jabs and crushing body blows, setting them up for his devastating left hook.