I was reading the extended pieces about Joe Frazier's life and death in The Guardian yesterday. My generation grew up with him and Ali and Joe Bugner, whose losing fight to Frazier on points in 1973 I remember listening to on the radio; I remember that better than the Ali trilogy that ended in Manilla. I suppose we will have our own memories of Smokin' Joe but one thing I never knew was that he was the son of a one-armed watermelon - according to the paper. The Guardian led me to understand at first that "(he was) born to Rubin - a one-armed watermelon and cotton farmer..." I never got to the other side of the hyphen. Not sure Joe's boxing career would have been so illustrious with watermelon as a key part of his DNA.
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