Joe Frazier watches Mike Tyson spar

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  1. andy

    andy Member Full Member

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    He is thinking 'I would do him'. The correct thought of the man who won the fight of the century.
     
  2. richdanahuff

    richdanahuff Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Every champion has to think like that no doubt Frazier did but.....at the same time he had to be impressed with Tyson's power, speed and strength.....Tyson was impressive a pitbull of muscle and all the ability to go with the look....but champions like Frazier don't look at guys like Tyson and think they can't win he did after all try to avenge the Foreman loss they think about how to win.
     
  3. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Tyson couldn't deal with the type of pressure and adversity Frazier was used to persevering through. I legitmately think, if matched prime for prime, either Tyson gets him out of there after landing the perfect shot, but I tend to think most of the time Frazier weathers any type of early storm, and after that it's just a matter of time until Fraziers smoke becomes too much.

    Frazier didn't have a long prime, but the way he chewed up exceptional fighters like Jerry Quarry, a guy who himself was blowing out the biggest, baddest most powerful punchers of his time in Mac Foster and Earnie Shavers and whom proved himself better than respected fighters like Ken Norton... Joe was a machine in his prime.
     
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  4. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    Yeah, whatever flaws Frazier may have had, heart wasn't one of them. In the rematch with Foreman, he was staring Foreman down like he knocked Foreman out the first fight.
     
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  5. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    Correct answer.
     
  6. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    Amen brutha Russell...a FOTC winning machine!
     
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  7. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    You're right as rain about that LH!
     
  8. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    Nuh-uh...
     
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  9. UFC2015

    UFC2015 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Putting Marvis Frazier with Larry Holmes and Tyson proves Joe didn't love his son.