How would you fight Smokin' Joe Frazier?

I'd put armor on the entire right side of my body.

 

It depends what your style is but if you can punch, try to unleash your bombs early, first and fast taking advantage of his open defense. Try to back him up to take away his punching leverage, try and hurt him to the body and throw uppercuts on the inside. Ofcourse if you can't hurt him enough he'll come back and punnish you and thats what he did to Ali and Quarry. But for these reasons I give Shavers a shot at him

 

Back him up is essential.

Someone mentioned Zivic vs Armstrong. Zivic boxed behind a very strong left jab followed with uppercuts, get that solid double jab in to back up Frazier then the uppercut to do the damage.

 

I would beat him with a stick while he slept!

Joking aside, I think that it is fair to say that Foreman produced the blueprint.

 

What's the blueprint? Be huge and hit hard?

 

So what if i am 5'7 and cant punch worth a ****?

 

This sounds good in theory, but the Greatest ever tried it and lost:?

I think the best bet is a Wlad Klitchsko styled long straight power punching with a smothering clinch every time Frazier gets in close.

 

You fight Smokin' Joe by becoming a Prime George Foreman. Otherwise, you're going to lose or barely survive the war somehow.

 

I would throw my very best leather early, committing to every shot full power and try to end him in the first 4 rounds. If that failed(And it probably would, my hands are too slow to get my best left hand on the button) I'd stick behind my abnormally long arms and jab till my right arm fell off, hugging Smoke light an octopus the second he got close enough to get whiff of my BO.

It'd be my body that'd take the real pounding against Joe. Being a taller southpaw against that style would make my liver the bullseye for that left hook, and that would just be very, very unpleasant.

 

I would have a woman accompany myself into the ring and stand behind her the entire time.By doing this,I would severely limit Frazier's attack as,being a good,honest christian man,he would never raise his hand to a woman.................oh,wait.atsch



I would probably use the same tactics that resulted in him losing four time - going 1-4 against the very best fighters he ever fought.

 

It's a tough question to tackle.

Jack Dempsey once said that his only real weakness was that he didn't have a reverse gear, and trying to get a guy like that to reverse is difficult to say the very least.

Frazier was very much like Marciano is the sense that his pressure was educated and evenly distributed, so as not to tail off after exertions, and that is what was so poisonous about them; there was literally no rest-bite.

Ideally you need tremor-inducing power for a guy like Frazier; Ali in 71' was one of the strongest, smartest and most resourceful boxers you'll ever see but it wasn't enough.

Frazier was a pugilistic nightmare, very few men are going to suffer him over the full fifteen.