Day: January 1, 2005

Daughters of Boxing Legends: Maria Johannson

  “On that humid June evening in 1959 at Yankee Stadium in New York, lightning and thunder shook the skies.  The “Hammer of Thor” found it’s way and downed Floyd Patterson seven times in the third round, making Ingemar Johansson from Sweden the new heavyweight boxing Champion of the world.  For the first time the

Daughters of Boxing Legends: Jacqui Frazier-Lyde

[Biography by Dee Williams]   Frazier vs. Ali IV was the reason for 5’9″ Jacqui “Sister Smoke” Frazier-Lyde to step into the pro boxing ring. Frazier-Lyde, a Philadelphia attorney and mother of three, is one of former world heavyweight champion Joe Frazier’s eleven children. As an interesting side note, Joe Frazier himself was the 12th