I actually met Joe Frazier one time while in high school, quite accidentally. What you say is true. He is a decent and nice man. I had a one-on-one converastion with him for about 15 minutes.
My younger brother played Jr. High Football against Joe’s Frazier’s son, Marvis. Joe would be on the sidelines watching the game. Marvis was a heckuva athlete, but chose to give up football & wrestling for boxing. The shame of it was he really couldn’t take a punch like his Dad.