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Here is some interesting raw footage of Joe Frazier getting ready for the "Fight of the Century".

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=69701

Joe, Yank, and Eddie. That was a helluva a team. Futch gave more trouble to Ali than anyone.

Here is also some footage of Muhammad Ali at the Miami Beach 5th Street Gym training for the same fight.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=69316

Yank Durham was right on top of Frazier every moment while Frazier hit the heavy bag, watching him like a hawk. Interesting.

Durham wasn't there for Frazier after the first Frazier-Ali fight. He died before their second fight.

Watch the Frazier Ramos fight, a buzzsaw at work.

BoxBuzz wrote:Watch the Frazier Ramos fight, a buzzsaw at work.

Hard not to enjoy Frazier, Buzz.

Even us "clueless insects" can enjoy his skills.

BoxBuzz wrote:Watch the Frazier Ramos fight, a buzzsaw at work.

Frazier-Ramos is one of my favorite Frazier fights.

I do wish Joe and Yank would have learned more from that right uppercut that Ramos landed early.

I sometimes wonder why it is that a boxer like Joe Frazier who worked out like a MoFo over his entire boxing career,
didnt have a freakishly ripped body like some of the heavyweights of the 1970's and 1980's.
Was it his diet?
Jack Johnson was another who worked out hard most of his career and didnt have a rippling muscles and washboard abs.

Larry Holmes is another.

It is just genetics. It happens. Alot of
guys train hard and never get 'the look' yet
otheres do very little and have all the benefits
of looking the part. Just a reality of life I am
afraid. Just as well, that boxing like life ultimately
is, is about performance and not looks.

Brutu wrote:I sometimes wonder why it is that a boxer like Joe Frazier who worked out like a MoFo over his entire boxing career,
didnt have a freakishly ripped body like some of the heavyweights of the 1970's and 1980's.
Was it his diet?
Jack Johnson was another who worked out hard most of his career and didnt have a rippling muscles and washboard abs.

Huh? Johnson in his prime was pretty ripped and definitely had a washboard stomach:

Start at 0:39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubUrl4YU2QE

It was after Johnson left for Europe that he started looking a little pudgier and less fit, as he was drinking and screwing more than training.

I think Frazier at his peak looked very fit.Of course not everyone develops a Harold Johnson/Cleveland Williams look but he looked better than 95% of the pudge trolls masquerading as HWs today.