Joe Frazier Biography Family And Facts About The Professional Boxer
Joe Frazier – Biography Joe Frazier was born Joseph William Frazier, the 12th child of Dolly Alston-Frazier and Rubin Frazier, on January 12, 1944, in Beaufort, South Carolina. As a young boy, the future heavyweight champion worked with his family on their farm. By the time he was in school, he had grown a stocky build that propelled his uncle to label him another Joe Louis. Frazier took his uncle’s words to heart and soon after went to make a makeshift punching bag which he hung at an oak tree in the backyard and punched every day for the next 7 years at about an hour at a time....