On June 7th of 1993, Joe Frazier from the Fight of The Century replaces George Foreman against Tommy Morrison. How does Frazier fare and how does the fight go? What troubles might the fighters give each other?
Ohh I see this ending rather painfully for young Tommy. Yes he out Boxed and managed to handle the ageing, hulking Foreman, but here?? Morrison s taking on one of the most vicious, constantly in your face, deadly left hooking, fighters, to step in to a ring. Frazier will wreck Tommy. Morrison s hook is deadly too but Frazier s is a heat seeking missile.
Because Joe can be a slow starter, Morrison might make it 5 rounds. He'd never hear the bell for the 7th, and this would be an even uglier, more brutal ko than the Mercer for sure.
Frazier is the obvious favorite in what would be one of the ultimate "phone booth" fights. I picked Frazier by KO but I will say this. Morrison had serious power and could do damage to just about anyone. I say Frazier gets Morrison before Morrison gets him but it would be fun to watch.
Morrison VS Hipp was roughly as brutal as Frazier VS Ali III...the difference is Morrison actually won that kind of fight. When it's a war of attrition, I think we know he is more proven than ole Joe. That would be my answer if I didn't find this so personally offensive that I couldn't be glib about it. Let me tell you a brief anecdote of watching one of Tommy's fights in the nineties. He was pitching himself as having had a religious conversion and settling down to normalcy. HBO did a nice little segment about it. The guy's walking around with a ******, a leopard and two cougars that he is "raising." They cut to him sitting in his home going "Right now, just living a normal life is what makes me happiest." A terribly entertaining fighter, inside the ring, and unintentionally outside the ring. Frazier massacres him. To death. In the face. Bad.
I have to make Joe Frazier a very heavy favorite here. It might however be a fun fight for a few rounds
Can be a slow starter. Often he was not from what I’ve seen. I think he smacks the ever living day lights out of Morrison by the third.
Joe didn't exactly start slow against Ellis, that's for sure. Two things I noticed rewatching the 1970 fight again: first, that Frazier had a very good jab and second, he was definitely not too easy to hit. I think that same Joe knocks the bejesus out of Morrison in 3, too.
