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He wasn't hurt or embarrassed. When I took this video in early 2011, about 10 months before he passed away, I decided I'd only show it in private. That was because he was a great man and a great champion and I didn't want to show him publicly tripping over his own feet in his old age. But watching this three years later, I realized that this video didn't show an old man falling over. It showed a world class athlete, a champion, who came from nothing and worked his way up to one of the greatest of all time, doing what he loved to do. Box. And if there is one lesson in this video, that I missed over these past few years it was as clear now as ever. We fall to learn to pick ourselves up, and to fight on. Even at this stage in his life. When he assumed no camera was rolling, he wanted to throw those bricks of hands, with a smile, around people he cared about and a few he had just met. He was happy. Sick and dying, but happy. This was his gym. This was Philly. This was Smoking Joe Frazier. Thanks Joe.
He wasn't hurt or embarrassed. When I took this video in early 2011, about 10 months before he passed away, I decided I'd only show it in private. That was because he was a great man and a great champion and I didn't want to show him publicly tripping over his own feet in his old age. But watching this three years later, I realized that this video didn't show an old man falling over. It showed a world class athlete, a champion, who came from nothing and worked his way up to one of the greatest of all time, doing what he loved to do. Box. And if there is one lesson in this video, that I missed over these past few years it was as clear now as ever. We fall to learn to pick ourselves up, and to fight on. Even at this stage in his life. When he assumed no camera was rolling, he wanted to throw those bricks of hands, with a smile, around people he cared about and a few he had just met. He was happy. Sick and dying, but happy. This was his gym. This was Philly. This was Smoking Joe Frazier. Thanks Joe.
