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Ex-heavyweight champ Joe Frazier has died
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| Nov.7, 2011
Posted on 11/07/2011 8:20:02 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
PHILADELPHIA - November 7, 2011 (WPVI) -- Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier has lost his battle with liver cancer, his family tells Action News.
Late Monday night, the family of Smokin' Joe Frazier issued this statement:
"We The Family of the 1964 Olympic Boxing Heavyweight Gold Medalist, Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion and International Boxing Hall of Fame Member Smokin' Joe Frazier, regrets to inform you of his passing. He transitioned from this life as "One of God's Men," on the eve of November 7, 2011at his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We thank you for your prayers for our Father and vast outpouring of love and support.
Respectfully, we request time to grieve privately as a family. Our father's home going celebration will be announced as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding."
Recently, the 67-year-old boxer has been in hospice care.
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To: Free ThinkerNY
God Bless and Keep you, Joe. R.I.P.
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:20:45 PM PST
by
chris37
(Heartless.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:20:51 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
That's too bad. RIP Smok’in Joe
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:22:14 PM PST
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:22:32 PM PST
by
mware
(By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Rocky was just on AMC and I caught the scene where he greeted them both in the ring before the final bout.
RIP Champ.
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:23:13 PM PST
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Sad. Loss of a great. Wonder what Mohammed Ali is saying?
RIP, Joe.
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11/07/2011 8:23:31 PM PST
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Beowulf9
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:23:36 PM PST
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EEGator
To: Free ThinkerNY
R.I.P. Smokin’ Joe. One of the all-time greats.
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:23:42 PM PST
by
sklar
To: Free ThinkerNY
How sad — what a permanent legacy he left for the “sweet science.”
One time George Foreman was describing what it was like to fight Frazier. Foreman said (paraphrasing) “you hit him with your BEST shot — straight in the face. Frazier shook his head — THEN GRINNED.” Foreman said that grin is the scariest thing he ever saw in his life!
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:23:54 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Herman Cain 2012 -- the man we need at the time we need him)
To: Free ThinkerNY
God speed Joe Frazier, you are a man many look up to and admire. May God’s Grace fill your soul with love and peace and may you enjoy the fruits of heaven for eternity.
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11/07/2011 8:24:58 PM PST
by
Wpin
("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
To: Free ThinkerNY
I’m sorry to hear this but he is with God now.
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:25:02 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: Free ThinkerNY
To: Beowulf9
Probably mumbling some crap about the will of Allah.
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:25:40 PM PST
by
Salamander
(And I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies, who never conceived of us billion dollar babies.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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11/07/2011 8:25:46 PM PST
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tioga
To: Free ThinkerNY
5’11” and he beat lots of the best big men of that era including Cassius Clay in his prime.
He was a great champ and a man’s man.
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:26:07 PM PST
by
Monterrosa-24
(...even more American that a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: Beowulf9
Wonder what Mohammed Ali is saying? Ali can hardly speak at all these days, but I'm sure he's greatly saddened by this news.
RIP Smokin' Joe.
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:26:45 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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11/07/2011 8:26:46 PM PST
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I_be_tc
To: Free ThinkerNY
RIP, but 67 is way too young to leave us.......
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11/07/2011 8:27:22 PM PST
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basil
(It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: Free ThinkerNY
down goes Frasier, for the last time.
RIP
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posted on
11/07/2011 8:29:39 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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