Boxing heavyweight Frazier dies

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8 November 2011 Last updated at 08:24 GMT The legendary fighter will be best remembered for being the first man to beat Muhammad Ali in New York in 1971

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier has died after a brief battle with liver cancer, his family said.

Frazier - also known as Smokin' Joe - had been receiving hospice care in Philadelphia after being diagnosed with cancer several weeks ago.

The 67-year-old was the first man to beat Muhammad Ali in 1971, but lost his next two bouts with Ali.

He held the world title between 1970 and 1973.

Frazier won an Olympic gold medal in 1964 after going to the Games as a replacement for Buster Mathis, who had beaten him in the trials but could not attend the Games due to an injury.

Continue reading the main story Born 12 January 1944, Beaufort, South CarolinaTotal fights 37 - 32 wins (27KOs), 4 losses, 1 drawWon gold for USA at 1964 Tokyo OlympicsWon NYSAC version of world title with victory over Buster Mathis in 1968Won WBA and WBC versions of world title with victory over Jimmy Ellis in 1970Last world title fight in 1975 against Muhammad AliRetired in 1976 and made a comeback in 1981, fighting just once, before retiring for goodDies 7 November 2011 after suffering from liver cancerHe won the heavyweight title in 1970, after Ali had been stripped of the championship in 1967 for refusing to fight in the Vietnam War, by defeating Jimmy Ellis in New York.

Three years later he lost his crown to George Foreman.

But the boxer is perhaps most widely-known for three great fights with Ali, including the epic "Thrilla in Manila" in 1975.

The pair had a fraught relationship dating back to taunts Ali directed at his rival in the build-up to their famous bouts.

But in recent years, they were reported to be on better terms.

"The world has lost a great champion. I will always remember Joe with respect and admiration," said Ali, 69.

"My sympathy goes out to his family and loved ones."

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Truth is, however much Frazier might have protested, Muhammad Ali illuminated Frazier's own greatness while also managing to be the bane of his life”

End Quote Frazier retired in 1976 after again being beaten by Foreman. He then made an unsuccessful comeback in 1981, fighting only once before ending his career for good.

"Goodnight Joe Frazier. I love you dear friend," said Foreman on Twitter.

British former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis told BBC Radio 5 live: "Without him, other boxing heroes wouldn't be great because they tested their talent against him.

"He definitely was legendary and he made a great contribution to boxing.

"I'm so sad for his family. Nobody likes to hear about great heroes passing on. It's a very sad day for boxing."

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Boxing is a genuine knock - Grandma

29 September 2011 stand 01: 08 GMT declared by Pumza Fihlani BBC News, Johannesburg Gladys Tsenene, boxes their CommunityGladys Tsenene, 70 can change why she thinks, is the oldest and only female boxing promoter in the province of Eastern Cape, which hopes the sport again to revive.

They can not longer with train the Boxer, but she speaks like more young people from rural areas passionate about the sport, and how they participate in.

"Boxing is my life." No more joy than development of young people from the city and make them professionals gives me, ", she says."

Tsenene has been a boxing fan for decades, learn the secrets of sports of the previous from her brother, a professional Boxer. A number of other relatives were involved in the sport.

Many boxing gyms in South Africa are not properly equipped.

In the late 1980s, participation in workshops began on how to become a boxing promoter.

Today, she with her daughter and two grandchildren in Motherwell lives Township, on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth.

But in contrast to the most grandparents their age, the time with the family at home and enjoy their golden years, Ms. Tsenene spends most of her time, scrub the city gyms in search of the next potential boxing superstar.

Your search returned their new age Boxing Club in a run down, 1-bedroom house in Joe Slovo Township.

The small room is filled with 20 or so young boxers, the intense red and blue punching bags hang from a rusty roof corrugated metal attack. The gloves, taking many of them are old and torn.

MS-Tsenene is located in this confined space. She is known affectionately as Mama Noforty, a leftover from the time that a tavern she ran in the early 1990s, where she sold homemade beer for 40 cents.

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I loved boxing, since I was young, it was one of my family favorite pass time. "This is what I was born to do"

end Gladys Tsenene quote boxing promoter within a & &, Ms. Tsenene is a coach, which are expected.

She screams "Left hook". "Upper cut," orders them.

"Good, very good," says she nodded and clap of the hands.

Here is her reputation as a boxing promoter, and the boxers have enormous respect for them.

"their job seriously," says Caiphus Ntante, a trainer at the gym of new age. "Yes, it is the oldest in the profession, but their passion is a boy." "People here know that she thinks it serious."

Is the matter of age?

MS-Tsenene operates only in the industry since 2005. You now has Rainbow boxing promotions, which represents nearly 30 Boxer at the age of 18 to 26. You prepare for a tournament in October where 18 will take in their boxers.

Tsenene says that she was born to work in the ring

"I boxes have loved since I was young", she says. "It was favorite thing my family." "This is what I was born to do."

But breaking into this male dominated industry have been not easy, says Ms. Tsenene.

"Some people had before problems with me in boxing - all because of my age - but I did not allow that to get it for me I knew I was as good as the young male box trainers in the industry," she says.

"I have proved myself." Now my boxers and our records for me at my age, not talk, "she says laughing."

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some of these children from poor families, where there is not even food in the House, boxes are them a chance to life "

Gladys Tsenene quote end boxing promoter their enthusiasm as a sponsor you brought female boxing has a number of local awards, including the meritorious service award in January of this year."

But the boxes have a hard time, the living for themselves or their boxers in South Africa.

It is one of the poorest and underdeveloped provinces in South Africa.

"It is very hard to work under these conditions." I am an old woman, who try to take these children from the streets, but it takes something more than just a person, must the Government and businesses to step up, "says Ms. Tsenene."

Mr Ntante agrees and declares that the biggest challenge to open sponsors or State funding of well-equipped gyms in poor communities.

"If you look around in my gym, this is a plastic House." There is nothing, not even Windows here "he says."

Boxing has become an escape for many young people in Joe Slovo.

"Many young people engage in crime, drugs, or both." "Boxing an alternative way of life is a chance to them, better", says Tsenene.

"Some of these children are them a chance to live in poor families, where there is not even food in the House - boxes."

The younger boxers are between 200 ($171; £ 105) R1 and R2, 500 ($356; £ 219) for each tournament paid that they compete in - whether they win or lose. It is the only source of income for many of them.

Lungisa Jikane is a professional boxer since 2005

Lungisa Jikane, 26, is an aspiring Boxer. He did play in 15, 11 of which win participated.

He lives in a hut in Joe Slovo, but hopes that the boxes will give him a way.

"I know that would be a waste of my time drugs [steroids]," he says. "If I want to have success, I know I need disciplined and thus my career."

His words are his feet on the dirt road by the sound, as he embarks on his daily 05: 00-jog interrupted.

Tsenene keeps a close eye on the young man she says the next champion could easily be.

"He is a good, so good that he was running opponent here in South Africa." People want to fight him because he they knocks,"she says."

"For him to get, a competitor we need to look for people who can fight at his level always outside the province after."

Tsenene is her daughter business to care, but she jokes that this will only be when she dies, because she plan not anytime soon to retire.

"I can join the boxers in their training as years ago earlier," she says. "But keeps their fighting spirit has abgefärbt to me - it is, what keeps me young," saying how they are looking for the next Muhammed Ali, travels.

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Tarnishing Gold: Official Accused of Attempting to Rig 2012 Olympic Boxing

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The BBC shed light on an investigation into the World Series Boxing (WSB) organization, alleging evidence of a secret deal to fix two of the boxing gold medals at the 2012 Olympics in London.
Whistleblowers inside the organization have accused Ivan Khodabakhsh, WSB chief operating officer, of promising Azerbaijani government officials two boxing gold medals at the Olympics in exchange for $9 million, the BBC reports.
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The International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA), the governing body of the WSB, admits an Azeri national paid $9 million to four U.S. franchises on the WSB tour, but denies the existence of any such deal.
According to the BBC, an insider said WSB was in need of funding, and that Khodabakhsh "boasted to a few of us that there was no need to worry about World Series Boxing having the coin to pay its bills. As long as the Azeris got their medals, WSB would have the cash."
Khodabakhsh denied the accusation, and in a BBC Newsnight interview, said "no comment," but then added the allegation was "an absolute lie." The media outlet has agreed to hand over its evidence to the International Olympic Committee, as a part of an investigation into the incident.
After the program aired, AIBA issued a statement that said the money was a loan from "an Azerbaijani investor…made on a commercial basis and with a view to a commercial return for the investor." The report was released just days before the World Amateur Boxing Championships commence on Sept. 26 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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