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Joe Frazier – American boxer, who spoke in the heavyweight category. The Olympic champion in 1964. World Champion Heavy (version WBC, 1970-1973; version WBA, 1970-1973) weight category. Thirty years later an arrogant cynic – apres moi le deluge, answered questions from the browser Men . style . com of its legendary past.

you ever thought about what your children will also be a boxer? Your son, Marvis, already struggling with Holmes and Tyson, and his daughter struggled with her daughter, Ali …

This purely their decision. Do what you gotta do. I just told them: “This is not pleasant. Just keep your pants, you all – continue to hold your pants!”

Where would you be now if not in 1967, Ali lost his title?

Life with Joe Frazier, Ali did not start. I was a champion of the Golden Gloves. In 1964 I won the gold medal in Tokyo. I was world champion in the heavyweight division before the fight with Ali. I went to DC to help Ali get him back the license. President Nixon had invited me for tea: “Joe, if I do this, you can take it?” I said, “You are to return to the ring, and I beat him there.” Nixon kept his word. And I too.

“In the freezer I keep her warm southern blood”

So why is he calling you to a fight in the park?

He

– only brings the noise, it is – an empty cart, rolling down the road, “Bam-drum-bum … Joe got my title. Joe is Tom. Joe fighter white guys. It is – pretty boy from Louisville. I – son sharecropper from Beaufort, South Carolina. Barabba Bam-boom … “

When you start working on the field?

In three years, I think. It was my father, I opted for cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, and watermelons. In fact, it was not a field, but rather a garden of 5, 10 acres, for a family of 11 children.

How old were you when you leave home?

Fifteen, or what? In New York City. I “helped older cars on the road landfill.” It seems now they call it theft auto …

you keep in shape by adding the carcasses in freezers, and managed the Philadelphia Museum of Art. You angry that Sylvester Stallone has used it in the movie “Rocky,” but you only offered a role in the crowd?

Ha. Stallone did not steal my life. He only showed his curiosity, and then it all wrong. I did not stay in shape, mainly due to the folding of the meat. In the freezer I keep her warm southern blood. Returning home, I usually stuffed my bag with rags and corn cobs.

“What keeps this dude on his feet? What medicine helps him?”

Ali also something of you took. You respect him?

Hell, yes. Now I feel sorry for him, but I did what he told me to do then God. To him, marching over all: “I – the greatest of all, I – the most beautiful. I – Butterfly.” Okay, but you can not be God. But Ali even said to me in the ring: “You can not beat me. I – thy God.” I just told him: “God, tonight you're in the wrong place”.

And when you look at him now suffering from the disease Parkisona …

Parkison? He received a left hook – that's what he got. I do not know how the man got up at all. I hit it in 44 round or later? I asked myself: “What keeps this dude on his feet? What medicine helps him?”

later thirty years old, whose hits you still remember? Ali? George Foreman?

George. I feel it every day.

You seem to feel the bitterness of something?

Bitterness? Why? I am blessed. I'm doing my job, and I was paid. Stallone got his, Ali got his. Same thing, George. Bless them all.

“Look, this thing that nobody knew, and if I had not heard, it would not have received had the license, and would be a little nicer in my left eye” < / b>