A gift from Smokin' Joe Frazier

Jon Marks, a sportswriter I know through the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association--wrote a piece about Joe Frazier packing a wallop...with his mouth.

Check it out here.

I don't know about his mouth, but I'm very familiar with the wallop that his giant hands can deliver. He slugged me in the gut right before this picture was taken in 2003 when I interviewed him for the first time.

You can read the story on the Philadelphia Boxing Examiner site here.

I still love to tell people that I took a punch from a man who beat Ali.