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Joe Frazier Everlast Boxing Robe
A Green Everlast Boxing Robe synonymous with
Smokin Joe, signed by Joe Frazier. This wonderful item comes
complete with our Certificate of Authenticity and a photograph
of Frazier signing, plus all attached security holograms
so you can be rest assured you are buying a genuine autograph.
Joe Frazier
£199.00
Frazier dropped out of school at the age of thirteen to become
a mule driver, went to New York to work in the garment district
at sixteen, and then became a butcher's apprentice in Philadelphia,
where he began boxing.
Buster Mathis beat Frazier in the finals of the 1964 Olympic
trials, but hurt his thumb in the fight and Frazier was
his replacement. He won a gold medal with three knockouts
and a unanimous decision in four Olympic fights.
The following year, Frazier turned professional. He won
19 consecutive fights, 17 by knockout, before meeting Mathis
for the New York heavyweight championship on March 4, 1968.
Frazier knocked Mathis out in the 11th round.
He won the vacant world heavyweight title by knocking out
Jimmy Ellis in the 5th round on February 16, 1970. However,
many fight fans still considered Muhammad Ali the champion.
Ali had been stripped of his title for refusing induction
into the U. S. Army in 1967.
Frazier and Ali, both undefeated as professionals, met
in one of the most ballyhooed matches in boxing history
on March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden. Frazier knocked
Ali down with a left hook in the 15th round and won a unanimous
decision that made him undisputed champion.
After two defenses, Frazier suffered a stunning 2nd-round
knockout against George Foreman on January 22, 1973, at
Kingston, Jamaica. The lightly regarded Foreman knocked
Frazier down five times before the knockout.
Ali beat Frazier twice in the next two years, first on
a 12-round decision and then on a 14th-round knockout. After
being knocked out by Foreman in 1976, Frazier retired. He
toured and recorded for a time with a singing group called
the Knockouts, returned to the ring for one lackluster fight
in 1981, and then retired again to manage his son, Marvis,
who lost a heavyweight title fight to Larry Holmes in 1983.
Known as "Smokin' Joe" because of his style of
constantly boring in and throwing punches, Frazier didn't
have a great knockout punch, but he wore opponents down
with his relentless attack. He won 32 professional fights,
27 by knockout; lost 4, 3 by knockout; and fought 1 draw.
