Former heavyweight champ Frazier remembered in SC

Posted on November 20, 2011 in Ecco shoes

Long before he became Smokin' Joe, the future heavyweight champion was known in his South Carolina hometown as "Billy Boy" -- a stocky farmer's son who honed his devastating left hook on a punching bag made from a flour sack stuffed with corn cobs, rags and Spanish moss. Joe Frazier would make Philadelphia his adopted home, but his roots ran deep in the sandy soil of the South...

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Friends, family remember former heavyweight champion Frazier in his hometown

Posted on November 17, 2011 in Mens shoes

BEAUFORT, S.C. - Long before he became Smokin' Joe, the future heavyweight champion was known in his South Carolina hometown as "Billy Boy" — a stocky farmer's son who honed his devastating left hook on a punching bag made from a flour sack stuffed with corn cobs, rags and Spanish moss.

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