‘Smokin’ Joe Frazier

Joseph William Frazier was born on January 12, 1944 in Beaufort, South Carolina. After working as a sharecropper as a youth, a 15 year-old Frazier moved to Philadelphia in 1959. He began an amateur boxing career not long after, and won Golden Gloves heavyweight championships for three consecutive years, in 1962, 1963, and 1964. Joe

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Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay, on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. He began boxing at age 12, when a kid stole his bicycle, and he wanted to learn how to fight to get it back. After a tremendous amateur career as a light-heavyweight, Cassius made the 1960 U.S. Olympic team that traveled

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Rocky Marciano

Rocky Marciano was born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, on September 1, 1923 in Brockton, Massachusetts. He played both baseball and football in high school, then dropped out after tenth grade. He worked at various jobs, as a ditchdigger, railroad layer and a shoemaker to help his parents. Rocky enlisted in the US Army in March of

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