Joe Frazier interview after losing his title to George Foreman

thanks for posting, champ.

 

great stuff. frazier calling ali CLAY all the time. no wonder there was so much hate between the two. look what happened to patterson and terrell in the 60s when they kept calling him clay. one thing that definitely wound ali up but he deserved it after what he called joe.

 

Very good interviews, Frazier seems a good guy.

 

I actually think that Joe started calling him Clay after Ali started disrespecting him.

 

http://www.secondsout.com/columns/thomas-hauser/rediscovering-joe-frazier-through-dave-wolfs-eyes

 

man that was decent nice find!

 

Man... I understand all the petty rivalries and stuff that goes among fighters, but Frazier's attitude towards Ali is kinda sick sometimes, and somehow diminishes him as an ATG :think

Just check this out:
http://myespn.go.com/s/conversations/show/story/3065738

"Frazier's pain, anger remains years after trilogy

Joe Frazier hasn't fought Muhammad Ali in 32 years but he spars with him every day.

They are both old men now, broken by difficult lives and too many years spent fighting for their paychecks. They have paid dearly for the prizes they won with the biggest price extracted from each by the other.

Although both would be diminished as fighters if they had never crossed paths, for Frazier neither time nor shared infirmities have softened his heart. He always has been a hard man and there is no harder place inside him than the spot still occupied by Ali. It's a large spot where the bruises remain even after all these years
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He'd made that clear in 1996 at the Olympics in Atlanta when he was beside himself after learning Ali would be lighting the Olympic flame. Once it was done he told a small gaggle of reporters,

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That same week, Frazier was signing autographs along with a group of other top American Olympians selected by the United States Olympic Committee as among the best the country had ever produced. A woman and her young son approached and asked Frazier what medal he'd won. When he told her "boxing," she asked if he'd ever fought Ali. That's when the dark clouds began to brew.

He said he had and she asked if he'd beaten him. He said he did but such is the depth of his feelings on the subject of Ali that he could not stop there.

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Kram also tells of Frazier claiming he'd made Ali what he is today. When the old writer asked the old fighter if he was referring to his old opponent's long battle with Parkinson's, Frazier snapped,

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"I hated Ali," Frazier told writer Thomas Hauser for his seminal biography, "Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times." "God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart. I hated that man … How would you feel if your kids came home from school crying because everyone was calling their daddy a gorilla? …

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"I don't like him but I got to say, in the ring he was a man … He shook me in Manila; he won.

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WHAT THE FUDGE IS THIS NONSENSE!!!!!

I am a big Frazier fan in the ring, but his attitude bothers me.

You would think that after 30 years, people should just chill out and get over things, and nope, I am not saying that Frazier should get all Kumbayha with Ali, but at least he should be able to see things with calm and some perspective.... but Frazier seems like a 50 something still crying because the elementary school bully took his lunch money

 

just a quick question, who was screaming "stop it!"
in the first clip?

 

Ferdie Pacheco and/or Angelo Dundee (I think)