What a shame these two giants of the division, lethal punchers both, never collided. What would have happened if Joe Frazier and Gerry Cooney met in ring centre and traded bombs?
What hasn’t been written about the fantastic yet equally barbaric and brutal third act, or final fight, between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier?
Mark Kram Jr, the son of the late Sports Illustrated writer who penned the quite superb, and somewhat controversial, ‘Ghosts of Manila’ book in 2001, has a new book on heavyweight great Joe Frazier.
Talk about a heavyweight rematch that didn’t need to happen. Joe Frazier, never short or raw courage and bravery, if perhaps an ability to do the smart thing, for some reason believed he could avenge his 1973 bludgeoning at the powerful hands of George Foreman.
There has never been anything quite like the ferocious rivalry between heavyweight kings Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Their bitter, truly intense and very special rivalry comprised of three fights, two of them of the epic, never, ever to be forgotten variety, with the two men fighting their hearts out in 1971, 1974 and in 1975.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxBhV0I6ISc
On this day 45 long years ago, heavyweight greats Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met in their anticipated rematch: “Super-Fight II.”
Smokin’ Joe Frazier is the featured boxer in this edition of the Top 5 Notable Wins series, and with Frazier, picking 5 is a really tricky business – much trickier than with the previous installments involving fellow heavyweight champions and Hall of Famers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_fFgYjCn0o
Mark Kram Jr, the son of the late Sports Illustrated writer who also penned the quite superb, and somewhat controversial, ‘Ghosts of Manila’ book in 2001, has a new book coming out, on heavyweight great Joe Frazier.
As surely any boxing fan knows, it was on this day – 47 long years ago – when Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, the two greatest heavyweights of their era, met in the fabled “Fight of The Century.”
It’s proven so, so hard for a number of great fighters to exit the sport on a win. So often we’ve seen legends battle on for too long; taking that ‘fight too many.’