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March 8th, 1971. Madison Square Garden, New York City. 7:43 PM.
Joe Frazier sat in his dressing room, wrapped hands resting on his knees. In forty-seven minutes, he would walk into the ring for the Fight of the Century. Muhammad Ali waited on the other side. Two undefeated heavyweight champions. One ring. $2.5 million purse. The biggest fight in boxing history.
But Joe wasn't thinking about Ali.
He was thinking about the man who made all this possible. The man who saw potential in a dirt-poor kid from South Carolina when nobody else would look his way.
That man had died seven months earlier. His name was Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. Harlem's most dangerous gangster.
What they didn't know was that Bumpy Johnson was also a kingmaker. The invisible architect behind one of boxing's greatest champions. Without Bumpy's money, connections, and strategic genius navigating the mob-controlled world of professional boxing, Joe Frazier would never have gotten close to that ring.
This is the story of how Harlem's most powerful criminal built a heavyweight champion. How he protected Joe from the Italian mob families that controlled every aspect of boxing. How he invested not just money, but his reputation and life's work into a kid who reminded him of himself. Subscribe if you want the truth. ✊

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