America, Joe Frazier included, should honor Muhammad Ali despite controversial past.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)(Column)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: August 12, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Two dozen years is a long time to hold a grudge, but Joe Frazier has managed to do it. He was a great fighter with a wrecking-ball style in the ring.

Frazier bled for a living and his pleasure was the pain he endured and dished out to inferior fighters. But as good as he was, he was no match for Muhammad Ali, in or out of the ring. And years later, that still rankles, as his outburst against Ali during the Olympics demonstrates.

``If I had been up there with Ali (during the torch-lighting ceremony), I would have pushed him in the fire,'' Frazier fumed.

Even that was not ...

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