Is Joe Frazier overated as a heavyweight?

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  1. Vince Voltage

    Vince Voltage Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Bottom of the top 10, or perhaps top 12. Would beat most heavyweights in history, but might unexpectedly struggle with some of them too.
     
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  2. Mendoza

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    Mendoza, Aug 16, 2011
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  3. cuchulain

    cuchulain Loyal Member Full Member

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    True, this.

    But that said, I don't think he's overrated.

    I have him at 9, alltime.
     
    cuchulain, Aug 16, 2011
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  4. frankenfrank

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    Jameel McCline would have bounced him just as well , but then Bonavena did it and Frazier wanted nothing to do with Shavers , Lyle , Mac Foster , and even old Folley & Liston. Frazier did avoid the punchers of his own era baring 1 , just like Patterson did in his time and the results were similar in both cases.

    Frazier & Patterson are extremely overrated as heavies , Patterson even more.
    They made Liston and Foreman's punching power become overrated in their own turn.
    Put a Valuev / Lewis / McCall / Vitali with a prime Liston/Foreman and see what happens . Pity its currently undoable.
     
    frankenfrank, Aug 17, 2011
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