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Re: Ali vs Frazier I: Would There Be Anything Like It?
Posted: 16 May 2016, 15:39
by Ambling Alp II
yancey wrote:Syntax Error wrote:Rexob wrote:A 66, 67, Ali would have beat Frazier quite easily, don't you think.
I don't think so.
Ali would always have had trouble with Frazier.
OK, he might not have struggled as much if we was in his '67 vintage, but he would have had his work cut out to deter Smokin' Joe.
Some may or may not get this, but 3/8/71 Ali was tougher and stronger then the earlier version.
He had to be.
What earlier version is the question. Certainly not anytime from 1964-1967.
Re: Ali vs Frazier I: Would There Be Anything Like It?
Posted: 19 May 2016, 18:16
by elmersalsa
Was there a fight as close as Ali vs Frazier I?
Re: Ali vs Frazier I: Would There Be Anything Like It?
Posted: 19 May 2016, 19:07
by Kalan
Rexob wrote:A 66, 67, Ali would have beat Frazier quite easily, don't you think.
No... Ali hit George Chuvalo with a million punches and couldn't hurt him... Frazier started putting his left hook on the immobile Chuvalo and started hurting him right away in the first round. He stopped Chuvlalo in the 4th... Ali didn't do anything to Chuvalo... Ali was wide open for left hooks and that happened to be Frazier's only weapon... Frazier couldn't get his left hook on George Foreman because he was too strong.