{"id":11249,"date":"2011-11-10T15:08:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11249"},"modified":"2011-11-10T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:29:57","slug":"legendary-boxer-joe-frazier-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11249","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Boxer  Joe Frazier Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA\u00a0 \u2014 <strong>Joe Frazier<\/strong>, the former heavyweight champion who handed<strong> Muhammad Ali<\/strong> his first defeat, yet had to live forever in his shadow, died Monday night after a brief\u00a0 fight with liver cancer. He was 67.<\/p>\n<p>The family issued a release confirming the boxer\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frazier<\/strong>, who took on<strong> Ali<\/strong> in three momentous fights in the 1970s \u2014 including the epic \u201cThrilla in Manilla\u201d \u2014 had been under home hospice care after being diagnosed just weeks ago with the cancer that took his life, a family friend said. Until then, <strong>Frazier<\/strong> had been doing regular autograph appearances, including one in Las Vegas in September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Floyd Mayweather Offers <\/strong><strong>To Pay For Joe Frazier\u2019s Funeral<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The death of boxing great <strong>Joe Frazier<\/strong> on Monday night has touched millions, including a deep admirer of the sport\u2019s history, unbeaten world welterweight champion <strong>Floyd Mayweather Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Twitter late Tuesday after hearing of Frazier\u2019s death, <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> tweeted, \u201cMy condolences go out to the family of the late great <strong>Joe Frazier<\/strong>. #TheMoneyTeam will pay for his Funeral services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayweather<\/strong> has committed to such a gesture before, earlier this year paying for the funeral of a one-time opponent, Southland former world champion <strong>Genaro Hernandez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frazier<\/strong>, who died at 67 of liver cancer, had struggled financially after his boxing career ended. He made public appearances to earn income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA\u00a0 \u2014 Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion who handed Muhammad Ali his first defeat, yet had to live forever in his shadow, died Monday night after a brief\u00a0 fight with liver cancer. He was 67. The family issued a release confirming the boxer\u2019s death. Frazier, who took on Ali in three momentous fights in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}