{"id":410670,"date":"2026-01-13T19:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/410670\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:45:20","slug":"remembering-joe-frazier-fondly-world-boxing-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/410670\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Joe Frazier fondly &#8211; World Boxing Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering Joe Frazier fondly<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-two years ago, Joe Frazier, one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, was born in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>As reigning heavyweight champion, Joe became even more famous, after inflicting Muhammad Ali\u2019s first defeat in what was dubbed: Fight of the Century.<\/p>\n<p>Short, compact, bobbing and weaving plus bursting with power, imbued wth fighting spirit, \u201dSmokin Joe\u201d knocked down many opponents, especially with his devastating left hook, which often brought the show to a close, mighty early.<br \/>It was precisely the left hook that knocked Ali down in the fifteenth round at Madison Square Garden in New York in 1971 and sealed the victory in the so-called Fight of the Century.<\/p>\n<p>Although he defeated Ali in that fight, Frazier lost the next two fights they had. He retired from boxing in December 1981 with a record of 32 wins with 27 knockouts, 4 losses and a draw.<br \/>Joe passed away in November 2011, a victim of cancer, but he will always be remembered, admired and beloved, as one of the best heavyweights in history. Courage, power, willpower and forever linked to Muhammad Ali. What a trilogy they fought!<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_173784\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"173784\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764343693_289_ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remembering Joe Frazier fondly Eighty-two years ago, Joe Frazier, one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-410670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}