why didnt frazier punch ali out in press conference's

The usual **** post from you.

 

:good

 

Bowe hit like a girl with the gloves off and he had 2 clean shots...Donald took them...Class-less

 

Why isn't anyone bringing up the time Ali was calling Frazier ignorant on Cossell's show, and Frazier stood up and approached Ali, at which point Ali stood up and they wrestled each other to the floor?


I think the incident occurred shortly before their second fight.

 

With regards to Ali calling him a uncle tom, I remember hearing/reading that Frazier never understood the implications of the insult at the time, ("I thought he was calling me a peeping tom"). When you consider Ali and Frazier's upbringing and even the colour of their skin I think comments like this deserve to blight Ali's reputation a little more. For all his undeniable genius with his fists he has a lot of stains against his gleaming, mythologized public image.

 

I doubt it.

James Toney has an even bigger mouth than Ali did and aside from a minor scuffle with fellow trash talker Hasim Rahman has never been punched out .

The truth is most trash talk is just that...talk.Fighters may act all agitated at press confrences yet come fight time they're invariably cool,calm and collected which shows that most of that stuff is just hyperbole and not taken to heart.

Frazier-Ali is a bit different as Ali insulted Joe on a physical,racial and personal level.As Joe said "How can I be a gorilla when I've got beautiful children of my own" and it hurt even more when his children copped gorilla taunts of their own at school.The fact large sections of the media and public bought into it and laughed it up at Joe's expense must still rankle as well (seeing Ferdie Pacheco trot this same **** out on the recent Manilla doco shows how this mentality permeated Ali's camp)

I love Ali but Joe was a decent man and deserved much,much better than this ****.

 

In general i agree with you, but Joe Frazier strikes me as one of the last guys you'd want to get in a street fight with. He just has that innate grit, determination, and persistance that says "do what you like to me but i'm not going to stop until i put a hole in your ****ing face"

 

You wouldn't see Frazier stabbing his wife with a fork and kiidnapping his own children.

Bowe proved how time and time again how mentally frail he was stabbing his wife, throwing belts in garbage, lasting 1 week in the marines etc etc etc

Chicken Bowe

 

Plus his sexual exploits, which Jim Bronw so specifically described.

 

This post was the official version.

The inofficial version is: Frazier was bound to the script.

Tah-dah

 

When you are older you will.

 

Somtimes it takes the bigger man.

No doubt about it.