Ali was forgiven, but Joe didn’t forget

“Smokin” Joe Frazier must have, indeed, forgiven archrival Muham­mad Ali for the latter’s continued verbal assault on his person, but he certainly, hadn’t forgotten.

Thirty-six years after the final chapter of their historic trilogy and up until his death on November 7, 2011, Joe never showed sign of not forgetting the insults and humiliations Ali thrown his way in the course of their historic but bitter and brutal rivalry.