Word: smokin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong, but so is Frazier. No amount of bluster is likely to deter Smokin' Joe, a raging, bobbing, weaving, rolling swarmer who moves in one basic direction?right at his opponent's gut. A kind of motorized Marciano, he works his short arms like pistons, pumping away with such mechanical precision that he consistently throws between 54 and 58 punches each round. He works almost exclusively inside, crouching and always moving in to slam the body. When the pummeling begins to slow his opponent, when the guard drops to protect the stomach, Frazier tosses a murderous left hook...
...play football because she thought it was too dangerous?had a talk with Joe. "Son," she said, "if y'all can't get along with the white man in the South, y'all better leave home." Joe quit school, hitchhiked to Charleston and caught "the first thing smokin' that was goin' north." He's been smokin' ever since...