As Hand, who died at 87 on Thursday, helped Frazier become a world champion, he became a pioneer of closed-circuit TV.
Joe Hand Sr. on an early morning run with Joe Frazier while he was preparing for his legendary fight with Muhammad Ali in 1971.The board meetings for Cloverlay — a group of Philadelphia businessmen who financially backed heavyweight Joe Frazier in the 1960s — were often running late and causing the members to return home after dinner. Their wives, they told Joe Hand, were complaining. Perhaps they could meet earlier, they suggested.
Hand became close with Frazier, gleaned business advice from an investor group that included Philadelphia dignitaries W. Thacher Longstreth and John B. Kelly, counted the attendance at Frazier’s fights, and adjusted the starting time for those board meetings. Frazier scored a first-round KO in his first fight under Cloverlay and broke his opponent’s jaw with his signature left hook in his third fight with the investors. Cloverlay, feeling bad for Frazier’s battered opponent, gave the fighter $250 while he was recovering at Hahnemann University Hospital.
First, the businessmen gave Hand the challenge of finding out what time brunch started. Next, they asked him to figure out what “closed-circuit TV” was all about.
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