Floyd Mayweather to pay Funeral costs for 'Smokin' Joe Frazier
By Johnny Benz, Doghouse Boxing (Nov 8, 2011) Doghouse Boxing
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Photo: 'Smokin' Joe Frazier
By Johnny Benz, Doghouse Boxing - Everyone from boxing fans and people around the four corners of the globe are in mourning over the sad loss of a great legend, "Smokin" Joe Frazier, who died last night after a short battle with liver cancer. Shortly after Frazier's death was made public, Floyd "Money" Mayweather Jr. took to his twitter account to not only give his condolences, but to also offer to pay for Joe Frazier's funeral costs.

On hiw twitter account at @FloydMayweather, Mayweather posted: "My Condolences go out to the family of the late great Joe Frazier. #TheMoneyTeam will pay for his Funeral services."

How can one not appreciate Mayweather for stepping up so quickly to offer such support? You gotta love Mayweather for thinking with his heart. No word if the family has accepted the offer, but I am under the assumption that Mayweather would not make the announcement without communicating his intentions to the family. Regardless, I think it is a beautiful offer, one that truly comes from the heart.

DID YOU KNOW. Here are some interesting facts / trivia about "Smokin" Joe Frazier...

In the '50s, in school, his classmates would give him a sandwich or a quarter to walk with them at final bell so that bullies would not mess with them. Joe remarked, "Any "scamboogah" (a disrespectful, low-down and foul person) who got in my face would soon regret it: Billy Boy ( a nickname given to him by his family) could kick anybody's ass."

As a young boy, he got an old burlap sack and filled it with rags, corncobs, a brick in the middle and Spanish moss that grew on trees. He then tied a rope to it and hung the makeshift heavybag from an oak tree in the backyard where his family kept mules. "For the next six, seven years, damn near every day I'd hit that heavybag for an hour at a time. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my Daddy's, or a stocking of my Momma's or sister's, and get to it" Joe remarked.

More legends of Boxing speak out on the Death of Joe Frazier...
Another tweet from `Money`Mayweather:
Floyd Mayweather speaks out on death of 'Smokin' Joe Frazier JB
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Muhammad Ali speaks on passing of 'Smokin' Joe Frazier
Manny Pacquiao speaks on death of 'Smokin' Joe Frazier

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