Frazier had the power and handspeed along with the skills to wear down bruno and force a TKO somewhere in the mid to late rounds in my opinion. Bruno had heart and great strength to give Frazier some problems along the way, but would be out of his league here.
Frazier is more well rounded, better chin and could punch, he is also in the top 10 ATG heavyweight list. He would knock Bruno out!!
I cant see Bruno winning this one at all. Frazier would wear him down and batter him mercilessly, it wouldn't go beyond 10 rounds, and probably be over between 5 and 8. Frazier would be too fast, too tough, too relentless and just too damn good.
I agree with that except it will be a TKO. Bruno will still be on his feet while Frazier is severely battering him without reply
I agree that Bruno's shortcomings were not so much in his Herculean physique but his non-Herculean mental fortitude. I happen to think Tyson's blows in Round 5 had lost a bit of steam vis-a-vis Round 2 against Berbick or Round 4 against Holmes, but, yes, good old Bruno took his lumps standing, thus not a chandelier. Therefore Frazier, who had ten times the heart of Bruno, would of course wear him down and take it.
Much to the contrary to all you guys who like to downplay Joe Frazier and practically have prelim boys decking him and knocking him out, he would have weathered anything Bruno would have thrown at him and kayoed him with a left hook in 7 or 8. Pressure pressure, pressure and always dangerous with that lethal left hook, he would have been a nightmare for Frank.
I think Bruno wins 6 out of 10 bouts. With a 30lbs+ weight advantage, it would be quite possible that he could smoke the slow starting Frazier early and win a few rounds; much like Foreman. But any time Frazier got though the first five rounds, there would only be one winner.
Bruno might be able to drop him early but then Frazier would repeatedly bounce left hooks of Bruno's chin til he scores a stoppage victory in the middle rounds.
Bruno does well early on... until Joe starts to smoke, then it'd be pretty brutal for poor Frank. Frazier TKO 7.