What famed boxer, nicknamed Smokin' Joe, was the beat Muhammed Ali in the famous Fight of the Century, but lost a battle against liver cancer earlier this week?
Fight of the Century face. The fight provided cover for an activist group, the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, to successfully pull off a burglary at an FBI office in Pennsylvania, which exposed the COINTELPRO operations that included illegal spying on activists involved with the civil rights and anti-war movements. One of the COINTELPRO targets was Muhammad Ali, which included the FBI gaining access to his records as far back as elementary school. Fight of the Century Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier, billed as The Fight of the Century (also known as The Fight), was the boxing match between WBC/WBA heavyweight champion Joe
Joe Fox (boxer) the Australian featherweight title against Billy Grime, and a win and a loss to Bert Spargo. On his return to England in 1925 he drew with Johnny Curley in Brighton, and beat Johnny Cuthbert before retiring from boxing later that year. Joe Fox (boxer) Joe Fox (8 February 1894 – 2 April 1965), also known as Joey Fox and in the early part of his career Young Fox, was a British boxer who was British bantamweight champion between 1915 and 1918, and British featherweight champion between 1921 and 1924. Born in Leeds, Joe Fox's earliest recorded fight was in June