Martin Bakole Ilunga vs Joe Frazier

Bakole would beat the shlt out of Joe Frazier

 

I wonder the same. Frazier’s biggest opponent was Buster Mathis who was roughly 250 but didn’t seem to have the power Bakole had. Bakole’s swings bring memories of an Old George as well.

Regardless, Bakole is still quite slow. Frazier shouldn’t have too much trouble moving his head to avoid those swings, nor should he have too much trouble landing on Bakole, only question is how long can he do this until he pays for it? Can he knock out Bakole before he himself gets knocked out? It’s a lot to overcome, not to mention a stylistic hurdle with Bakole’s 80 pound advantage, durability, good shot selection and accuracy.

 

He’d kill literally all the old greats

 

I thought Bakole had reasonably fast hands given his size --- certainly not slow. And his work rate was impressive, especially given his size. I'd assume he can't keep that up for 12 rounds though.

 

He has got quick hands from what I’ve seen. It’d be unsurprising to see a guy that big work hard @cross_trainer showed me some stats that show Chisora threw more punches then Frazier did in the FOTC with just 12 rounds.

 

Pretty close overall for their performances against similar-sized, quality mobile boxers. Frazier threw 631 against Ali:

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over 15 rounds at age 27, I think. Chisora apparently threw 625 against Usyk over 12 at age 36:

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It misses a lot of subtleties to do it this way, but there are enough other high-volume fights in the modern era to suggest the big guys can have very good gas tanks.

 

Frazier beats him from pillar to post

 

Joe Joyce threw 102 punches vs Joseph Parker in the 6th round of their fight. And from round 6 up until the stoppage he was averaging over 80 punches a round and ended up with over 800 punches thrown.

That's very impressive for a man of Joyce's size and people have been questioning how Joyce beat Parker well the statistics above show why!!!

 

Genuinely can't believe we have Bakole being mentioned in the same breath as ATG Smokin Joe Frazier.

 

me either....

 

Sometimes being an ATG can’t save you from a stylistically unfavourable matchup

 

He's clearly being sarcastic.