Joe Frazier dies at 67 Muhammad Ali hatred rivalry marked his life but hoping he found peace before death

“There is so much hate, so much contempt inside people,” Floyd Patterson once said, “that they hire prizefighters to do their hating for them.”

What occasioned these remarks was a merciless and hateful beating at the hands of Muhammad Ali, whom Patterson had made a point of calling Cassius Clay.
“What’s my name?” asked Ali, who exceeded Patterson by at least 15 pounds on the scales and nine inches in reach. Each question seemed to elicit a new volley of jabs and slashing right hands. “What’s my name?”

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