Down goes Frazier, down goes Frazier, down goes Frazier! A quesiton

Was this Howard Cosell's way of saying thank you, George, for whipping the man who beat Ali?

Or

Was it just a colorful way of describing the action?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz3tPjLhw2U

 

I think you're looking too much into it regarding the first sentence.

It was a massive shock at the time watching a lineal, undefeated undisputed champion getting wiped out like that in 2 rounds.

Cosell, like most of those watching was just amazed at what was transpiring in the ring.

 

Just a turn of phrase I think. He used "down goes Ellis" during his fight with Frazier.

 

Precisely. It was a massive shocker when it happened. We all thought we knew the score back then -The only man capable of beating Frazier was Muhammad Ali in a rematch. And if this was n't enough,three months later there was yet another major upset in the heavy ranks. At the start of 1973,it was all Ali and Frazier. After a short while it was Ali,Frazier,Foreman and Norton.

 

It would be the same today if some guy just came along and destroyed someone like Golovkin, Kovalev, Mayweather or Ward in just two rounds.

People would be shocked.

 

I was thinking the same thing. "Down goes Ellis! Down goes Ellis!" really sticks in my memory.

 

Cosell was not shocked. He predicted Foreman would win.

His excitement was likely fueled by seeing his prediction come to fruition.

 

Come now, this was all happening so fast that I doubt Cosell had any chance to think. He was reacting with shock like everyone else. Foreman was, to anyone who thought about it, a pretty live underdog, but damn few people could have predicted this outcome.

 

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Yeah similar. But frazier was much better so it was a bigger shock ,

 

'it's hurst, some people are on the pitch, they think it's all over, it is now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

could have meant **** the nazi's and everyone related to them, but it could also have meant that some people were on the pitch, they thought it was all over, it was after the 4th goal.

 

Frazier was also coming off a win over Ali.

If someone destroyed Kovalev in 2 rounds, just after he beat Hopkins, that would have cause a major shock.

 

It's as simple as that. He'd have called Ellis knockdowns of Frazier and Frazier knockdowns of Foreman the same way if those situations had been reversed.

 

I saw the Frazier vs Foreman Closed Circuit fight in Austin, TX back on Jan. 22, 1973. I do not remember if Howard Cosell did "announcing" for the Closed Circuit version or not. I do know ABC Wide World of Sports showed a Howard Cosell version a week later on home TV. At that time in the early 70's, Cosell was a master at doing NFL game highlights "voice overs" on Monday nite. In the original Cosell call of the fight broadcast on ABC, you can hear a change in the quality of the audio.....as though the audio signal had failed from Jamaica, or had been tampered with (as in a "voice over"). I have often wondered if the Cosell version was done "after the fact".

 

No, because there is footage of him at ringside (and you can see and hear him yelling) on a Howard Cosell special.