Frazier-Briscoe sparring?

I`ve heard this as well a long time ago, I`ll ask a few people and see if they can confirm this. I can tell you know however since were talking about sparring that Joe did spar with Gipsy Joe Harris regularly and he was his main sparring partner leading up to the FOTC. I also know that Matthew Saad`s manager Nick Florio used to have him spar with a huge local heavyweight whos name escapes me at the moment on a regular basis, and that Saad used to get the better of this guy in sparring and actually floored him a few times whereas Saad himself was never dropped by this guy, I`ll post the name of the fighter if I can remember it.

 

I've always wondered about the sparring sessions between Briscoe and Qawi...Damn. That might the toughest Philly sessions of all time...maybe.

 

I remember reading this too somehwere. Info on sparring sessions is very hard to come by.

BTW, does anyone know of a 1985 sparring session in which Camacho taught a young Pernell a lesson in the art of dirty fighting?

 

they prolly had to lock the place down to have the session .. it'd be balls to the walls explosion

 

No but I would like to see it.

 

Frazier had sparring sessions with Willie the "Worm" Monroe and Gypsy Joe Harris in the late 1960's.

 

Philadelphia weekly has and interview with Monroe, briscoe, Hart & watts...

Cyclone Hart says he sparred with Ali:
"When I was a young man, 14 years old, Muhammad Ali came here from Florida to get a fight from Joe Frazier," Hart recalls. "He trained and sparred with me at Champ's. I hit him with a left hook. That's what let me know I could be a champion."

And with Briscoe:
"I went home with headaches [from] having to fight guys like Georgie Benton in the gym," Hart says. "Guys like Briscoe that I had to spar in the gym, that was rough and rugged. They helped me a great deal. I stuck with it and everything worked out fine for me."

Have not heard or found anything to reinfroce what your looking for though...that does not mean it's not true though

 

After getting released from prision Qawi went to Frazier's gym and did spar with Briscoe (not sure how often)..the accounts say they were intense sessions, but accounts differ as to who got the best of it????

 

Qawi apparently sparred with a few of these guys!

Qawi: My style was one on constant pressure...I had a very good jab for a short fighter,
and was always throwing punches in bunches, a pressuring style of fighting. This
style ultimately earned me the nickname “The Camden Buzz Saw”. As a fighter I had
no amateur career. I was basically a very good street fighter. This led an old
acquaintance to strongly suggest to me upon my release from prison, to get involved
in professional boxing. He was so convinced that he immediately took me to get boxing
equipment. He further sought to encourage me by taking me to Joe Frazier’s Gym in
North Philadelphia. There, I was introduced to the trainer that was impressed enough
to put me in the ring with veterans like Bennie Briscoe, Willie “the Worm” Monroe,
Bobby “Boogaloo” Watts, etc....

 

Philly fighters were ungodly badasses, especially in sparring.

Eugene Hart in there with Ali and Witherspoon, even if they weren't heated sessions?

And Briscoe with Qawi and Frazier? :yikes

 

Those sparring sessions sound ten times better than almost any actual fights we can see today.

 

Wonder if Qawi and Frazier ever went at it.

 

Frazier used to spar with Larry Holmes in prep for the second Ali fight ...