Frazier's blindness

Nope.Harry Greb ,Marvin Hart,Pat Valentino ,& Sam Langford did okay.

 

It would be impossible for a man with one eye to win the hw title. The documentary is very obviously exaggerating a discrepancy in the power of one of his eyes, that many people have.

 

The blindness story is BS.

 

We will never know for sure.

 

I have an article somewhere and Eddie Futch says the story was BS. That is more than enough for me.

 

Futch dismissed Joe’s allegations that he fought the last few years virtually blind in one eye.

“Joe wasn’t blind. We had good doctors. We had him checked periodically. We had one fighter [Gypsy Joe Harris] who had gotten away with it by memorizing the eye chart. He got caught and had to retire. If [Joe] had been blind, I would have retired him. Joe was working in a packing house and had five or six children. I wouldn’t want any fighter to risk his life because of a physical abnormality.”

 

Futch is a red hot source and he's very very clear in what he says there Rob.

 

Sure it would have been different since he could see better where the shots were coming from. So we can safely assume that he would have either won easier or more often.

 

Frazier is very specific and detailed about his eye issues in his 1996 autobiography (written with Phil Berger) too.
I wouldn't dismiss all of that as "BS".

Doctors, names of surgeons, hospital, precise dates of surgery, for example. He underwent surgery to remove a cataract in his eye a few weeks after Manila, if I remember rightly.

 

If he did become blind in one eye, it probably occurred later on, perhaps even during the thrilla. I can't see him winning the title and defending it 9 times, as well as the Fotc, and been legally blind in one eye. But if he was I have even more respect for him.