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Goodnight, Irene wrote:

hhaehre wrote:

Mr E wrote:In my opinion, Big George would have destroyed Bonavena.

I agree, if Foreman could bounce a superior swarmer like Frazier of the canvas like a basket ball why should Bonavena fare any better ?

Because this is 1970, not 1973.

Goodnight, Irene wrote:

hhaehre wrote:

Mr E wrote:In my opinion, Big George would have destroyed Bonavena.

I agree, if Foreman could bounce a superior swarmer like Frazier of the canvas like a basket ball why should Bonavena fare any better ?

Because this is 1970, not 1973.

Goodnight, Irene wrote:Bonavena was a more dangerous fighter than Chuvalo, & he would have presented Foreman with more problems than Chuvalo did in '70.

Brutu wrote:Also unlike Chuvalo,Bonavena was a heavy handed,two fisted fighter.
Both Foreman and Bonavena had a kind of herky-jerky style.
I think it was difficult for a boxer to time Bonavena for a certain punch,because of his broken non rhythmic unpredictable style,
other then that he always came under and up, forward and punching and only stepped back for some punching room.

Brutu wrote:Also Joe Frazier was almost shot as a fighter when he fought Foreman in 1973.
High Blood pressure made him weak and tired all the time,his left arm was arthritic with water on the elbow and his left eye was clouded by cataracts.

Goodnight, Irene wrote:

Brutu wrote:Also Joe Frazier was almost shot as a fighter when he fought Foreman in 1973.
High Blood pressure made him weak and tired all the time,his left arm was arthritic with water on the elbow and his left eye was clouded by cataracts.

Utter, revisionist nonsense. This is not remotely accurate.

Brutu wrote:Well thats what I remember from reading Frazier's autobiography.
He seems like a regular Joe to me.
He said when got to Jamacia he felt really tired all the time even when he woke up in the morning there,and later the doctor diagnozed it as high blood presure.
What did Frazier have left to prove after winning his 1971 fight with Ali?

Brutu wrote:Well thats what I remember from reading Frazier's autobiography.
He seems like a regular Joe to me.
He said when got to Jamacia he felt really tired all the time even when he woke up in the morning there,and later the doctor diagnozed it as high blood presure.
What did Frazier have left to prove after winning his 1971 fight with Ali?

Brutu wrote: ↑15 May 2010, 12:55 According to google newspaper archives
George Foreman was originally scheduled to fight Oscar Bonavena ,October 11.1972 ,for 15 rounds at Boston.
The winner to fight Joe Frazier for the title.
The fight was canceled two weeks after Foreman and Bonavena signed the contract,after
Bonavena broke his hand (hairline fracture)in the second round in his August.15.1972 tune up against Lou Bailey,
(Bonavena still won on points)
It would appear Bonavena had fractured his left hand before twice ealier in just over a year before he broke it again in the fifth round of Patterson fight in February 1971.
The fight with Floyd Patterson had also been postponed because he hurt his left hand in training .
Bonavena broke his left hand again in a car accident in LA a month later and had to have surgery again.

goose 5 wrote: ↑25 May 2025, 02:45 At what point in 1970 ? Foreman was so green but was improving. Still, I like Bonavena to win any time that year. Just too soon for Foreman.