BoxRec

The 1964 Summer Olympic Games from Tokyo Japan were the first live televised Olympics via satellite(Syncom 3).
Here is a list of the Heavyweight bouts.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_at_ ... eavyweight

Hans Gruer went on to become a major thief. Then John McClane threw him off the 50th floor of Nakatomi plaza one xmas during a botched robbery. The end

Semifinals
October-21-1964.
Joe Frazier vs Vadim Yemelyanov
(brief highlights)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btRNfmwa0G0

Finals
October-23-1964
Joe Frazier vs Hans Huber

(you can see a little of it in the first minute of this clip)


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

Brutu wrote:Finals
October-23-1964
Joe Frazier vs Hans Huber

(you can see a little of it in the first minute of this clip)


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

Big Joe fan, but I had to employ the mute option on the video.

Il Duce wrote:Brutu,,,,,

Nice Job,,,,,,,,,Joe floored Hans in that bout.

Notice how Joe had a pretty quick right hand back then.

I think somewhere the ball was dropped in not developing that Frazier right hand better.

Il Duce wrote:I think 'Smokin Joe' decided to do a little 'Song and Dance' rather than work on his right hand.

I had Joe's only album they produced.

'Smokin Joe Frazier and the Knockouts',
featuring 'First Round Knockout'

I only listened to the album once............

i bought mine off of eblow
took 4 weeks to get and when i got it
i put it on the old turntable cranked up the volume
and well..........i died a lil inside

but it looks nice hanging on the wall

I think Joe Frazier was closer to 5 ft 10 then 6'0.

according to his autobiographt SMOKIN JOE.
he was a last minute subsitute to Buster Mathis
when Mathis hurt his hand in a exhibition with Frazier
at the Olympic Traing Camp Fort Hamilton AFB San Francisco.

Frazier went to Tokyo in his place.
Vadam Yemelyanov was 6 ft 4" and 230 lbs.
Frazier hurt in thumb with a left hook in the second
(using 8 oz. gloves).
round but Yemelyanov shortly threw in the towel.

Hans Huber was a bus mechanic
who origianlly tried out for the Olympic Wrestling team.