Is Frazier's Destruction of Foster...

Not quite.

 

Exactly. Foster looked lean and vulnerable and his style (and assets) didn't particularly suit the 175'er moving on up to heavyweight. Spinks became very very elusive up there and that was never going to be Bob. Charles, Conn, Tunney and Moore all better suited there IMO. Conn a beautiful technical boxer, Charles with a multitude of skills and assets, Tunney and Moore quite durable and very very good boxers. Bob also had some serious misfortune fighting Ali and Frazier, two terrible propositions for 175 pounders.

 

Before the fight, did you expect it to at least be a bit more competitive?

 

I'd like to see the Foster - Frazier odds actually, dinner i'd say might even have em.

 

Well, Spinks was an undefeated lineal heavyweight champion. Foster never won a big fight at heavy.

 

What always sticks in my mind about Frazier - Foster was surprising not the Blowout Hook that nearly took Bob's Head off...No it was the, if ever a punch can be called it, "exquisite" Left hook Joe Landed to score the First Knockdown, as i recall it anly seemed to travel abour 9 inches, and in fact looked more like a Jab with a bit of Curve on it ! i think a lot of fans forget the class of the composition of the first Knockdown. ?

 

thats pretty much it. alot of people thought spinks would beat tyson.

 

We were in college and Ali was touring around speaking out against Viet Nam
and calling himself the People's Champ and getting Frazier really riled up.

The Ali-Quarry fight was 3 weeks before, and now the way was clear for
Ali-Frazier....but Foster had said give me a shot Joe, so the traditional
Lt. Heavy Champ vs Heavyweight Champ showdown had been set.

I think most people thought Foster might last 5 rounds....maybe score a flash knockdown like had happened to Frazier before.

But to me these 2 fights (Foster & Ali FOC) were Frazier at his most dynamic.

Foster really had only 2 chances...slim & none.

 

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Well, while the Foster fight was a highly impressive performance by Joe and he displayed brilliant power, speed, offensive skill and killer instinct in polishing Bob off, the fact is that Foster never showed himself to be an elite-level heavyweight, while Spinks was a legitimate world heavyweight champion with two wins over (even an aging) Holmes and one over (even an old, rusty) Cooney, which amounts to far, far more than Foster ever did at heavyweight. "They were both great light heavyweight champions; therefore beating either of them at heavyweight is equally impressive" just isn't solid logic.

 

Great double hook by Joe!!!

 

In respect to the end result, yes it was similiar. But one way it was different is that Foster went into that ring believing he could win and was unintimidated by Frazier. He even landed a few good shots in the two rounds it lasted. Spinks went into that Tyson fight scared and didn't seem to come into that ring thinking he could win.

 

Let's not forget that Foster was genuinely a blown-up light-heavyweight, whereas Spinks had systematically built up his body to a sizeable 210 or so. (I think he was 212 against Tyson.) In fact, Spinks was heavier than Frazier was against Foster and by that time was a genuine heavyweight.

It was a good win by Frazier, but for me not on the same level as Tyson's win over Spinks.

 

Ernie Terrell kod Foster ,Zora Folley comfortably decisioned him Foster at heavy was nothing.At LH atg.

 

Foster rocked Ali? Cut his face to shreds? Outjabbed him? Ali had sutures in a cut on one eye he floored Foster SEVEN TIMES FOR CHRIST SAKE ,FOSTER WAS NOT IN IT.