Smokin' Joe: The Autobiography of a Heavyweight Champion of the World, Smokin' Joe Frazier - Hardcover

Frazier, Joe; Berger, Phil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 002860847X ISBN 13: 9780028608471

Publisher: Macmillan General Reference, 1996

Synopsis

Examines the personal and professional life of the famous boxer

About this title

About the Author:

JOE FRAZIER (1944-2011), also known as 'Smokin' Joe', was a professional boxer. During his twenty-one year career, he earned an Olympic gold medal in 1964 and was named World Heavyweight Champion in 1970. He only lost to two fighters: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. An inductee of both the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame, he is considered one of the ten greatest heavyweights of all time.

PHIL BERGER (1943-2001) was a sportswriter, author, and screenwriter. A former boxing reporter for The New York Times, he wrote more than a dozen books about basketball and boxing, including Forever Showtime: The Checkered Life of Pistol Pete Maravich, Miracle on 33rd Street: The New York Knickerbockers' Championship Season, and Punch Lines: Berger on Boxing.

From Publishers Weekly:

Frazier was born in 1944 in rural South Carolina, one of 13 children of a father who also boasted of 13 other kids born out of wedlock. Unable to adjust to life in the South, Frazier went to New York City at age 15 and then to Philadelphia, where eventually a syndicate of businessmen backed him in the ring. He won an Olympic gold medal in 1964 and, after Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title as heavyweight champion for refusing military induction during the Vietnam War, Frazier was named champion in 1970. The following year, he defeated the reinstated Ali and reigned until 1973, when he lost his title to George Foreman. Once a friend of Ali, he became an enemy after a steady barrage of insults from "The Louisville Lip," and it's noteworthy that he always refers to Ali in these pages as Cassius Clay (his pre-Muslim name). Frazier has never ceased to work, nor has he lost faith in the American dream, so his autobiography, written with prize-winning boxing journalist Berger, may prove inspirational to young people. Photos not seen by PW. Author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan General Reference
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 002860847X
• ISBN 13: 9780028608471
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 213