After beating Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier had nightmare tour of Ireland and was held at gun-point
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In Belfast, Frazier was three hours late for a meeting with the Lord Mayor, having been pulled over and ordered out of their car by gun-wielding British troops. “While Frazier was in the hall tempers of those remaining outside became enflamed due to the encouragement of some troublemakers. At Dublin’s National Stadium, a lack of communication with Jack Fitzgerald, who in his role for Tara Records was overseeing advertising and ticket sales, had contributed to Fitzgerald believing The Knockouts weren’t going to show and to therefore stop selling tickets.
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