‘I didn’t give it away, Joe earned it’

It’s hard to know what’s the most daunting challenge in world sport right now but whatever it is, it exists at the upper echelons of men’s tennis.

I SAW Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden but not, alas, in the Fight of the Century. It was just last January and Joe was courtside for Knicks-Spurs in the NBA.

Boxing was today mourning the passing of one its finest heavyweights after Joe Frazier lost his battle with liver cancer.