Joe Frazier, 1971 vs Sonny Liston 1960.

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  1. GOAT Primo Carnera

    GOAT Primo Carnera Member of the PC Fan Club Full Member

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    A heavy jab and solid power from the outside is never something you´l like Joe Frazier to face.

    Whether its Bowe, Lewis, AJ or Liston.

    For the tenth time now, the H2H credentials of Frazier are made of the Goat beeing the perfect style match with relatively low power. Let Frazier bob & weave into 90s HW power, bad things are going to happen.
     
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  2. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    Technically, Liston wasn't "90s heavyweight power".
     
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  3. SerbianLoudmouth

    SerbianLoudmouth Overhand right-Suzie Q Full Member

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    90s power?
    No of those guys had the power of young Foreman.
    It's shame we didn't see Frazier against punchers a bit lower level than Foreman like Lyle,Shavers,Liston and Mercardo.
    If Frazier faced Lyle and Shavers and beat them I would favor him against Liston but since he didn't it is 50/50
     
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  4. Richard M Murrieta

    Richard M Murrieta Now Deceased 2/4/25 Full Member

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    Joe Frazier once remarked in a documentary that he had great admiration for Sonny Liston, because he had a tough life, and when he was incarcerated, he was beaten by Correction Officers with Billie Clubs. But I believe that Yank Durham avoided Sonny for stylistic reasons for Joe.
     
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  5. KernowWarrior

    KernowWarrior Bob Fitzsimmons much bigger brother. Full Member

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    I see it as Frazier basically had a style early in a fight which was made for Listons power, and as others have stated it would be another Foreman vs Frazier outcome.

    I am in no way denigrating Fraziers legacy, it is just i see this match up would not go in Fraziers favour.
     
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