All the "bigger is better" crowd who I haven't blocked (I just got tired of the constant one-note drone, and I could very well be in the ether but honestly it sounds to me like it's a 1 or 2 people with multiple IDs trying to gum up a nostalgia forum just for sheer contrariness and trollery) will be here to tell me I'm daft, but did Wlad ever face a man he'd literally have to render completely, insensibly unconscious, if not kill, to keep down? Frazier wins this.
No Wlad never really faced anyone like Joe Frazier. The true Joe Frazier, the one building up the first Ali Fight, was an insane, bull of a man. I think Joe wears him down for a late stoppage.
Totally agree. Not only is he not aggressive enough, he never encountered anything in his life like peak Frazier.
Well i will put my head over the parapet and say Wlad uses his size to keep Frazier at end of his jab and smothers Frazier to big degree if Frazier gets inside. A 6ft 6' 240+ pound octopus with 81 inch tentacles who was well versed in using those tools.
In Manila, Frazier ... and it wasn't even peak Frazier ... pounded Ali's hips until they were purple. What would he do to Vlad's tentacles and that big body?
Do you imagine that Wlad would be rope a doping for much of the fight, presenting a ring rope supported punch bag for Frazier to pummel? I frankly think not.