This is exactly how I feel. Never been close to tears for anyone who I didn't personally know before Joe passed yesterday. RIP Joe.Quote:
Originally Posted by chinchekked
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This is exactly how I feel. Never been close to tears for anyone who I didn't personally know before Joe passed yesterday. RIP Joe.Quote:
Originally Posted by chinchekked
Goodbye Joe... thanks for the memories!
God bless Joe Frazier. He always conducted himself with dignity and honor, always gave all he had to give.
That is what a fighter should be about, despite being involved in a sport that is desparately trying to be pro wrestling.
There were emotional scenes at Joe Frazier's funeral yesterday as famous faces from the world of boxing gathered to pay their respects.
Everyone that is, except the WBO, who didn't recognise the event and will hold an interim funeral on Friday.
I don't know if anyone mentioned this but Joe's background in poverty is the ultimate rags to riches to survival story. He always gave three hundred percent in training and in the ring and he as a person was always the same as I remember a caring person. In a sport marked by some as brutal, no other sport has ever produced as many gentlemen. When they are not in the spotlight they are kind generous pople most of the time as was Joe in and out of that circle. Although he was short of some greatness he performed with much more than greatness and the effort was supreme as many people will tell you about that night in Manila. Who else would have the courage to face George Foreman a second time at his meanest in his first career? Joe will be missed by me and many others. Rest in peace Joe!!!