Rare Joe Frazier early bouts

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  1. TheGreatA

    TheGreatA Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  2. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Seen the footage but I didn't know about the site. Thanks.

    Frazier's polish really interests me. Some things like the shortening of punches and the vast improvement in balance, but you see him sometimes try to slip individual punches then step in - British title level stuff. Somewhere along the line that became a calderon of seamless perpetual motion who stepped, slipped and punched in one long note. A vast leap taken in small portions.
     
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  3. yancey

    yancey Active Member Full Member

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    Would you happen to know if there is a film that exists of Frazier's fight with Doug Jones in early '67?
     
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  4. Woller

    Woller Active Member Full Member

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    The fight WAS filmed. I have a 2 1/2 minutes silent version. Not sure of which round, but not showing knock downs or knock out.

    Woller
     
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    DonBoxer The Lion! Full Member

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    Great site, thanx for sharing.
     
  6. TheGreatA

    TheGreatA Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yes. I have the same film as Woller.
     
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  7. PetethePrince

    PetethePrince Slick & Redheaded Full Member

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    Great fights.

    Frazier showed great defense & agility. There is a youthful reckless abandonment in his early fights that I like.

    Memphis was a wild man, wasn't he.
     
  8. TheGreatA

    TheGreatA Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I remember on another forum there was a person who had worked the corner of Memphis Al Jones when he scored the big upset of his career against then hyped heavyweight prospect Boone Kirkman.

    He actually knocked Jerry Quarry down twice.
     
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  9. PetethePrince

    PetethePrince Slick & Redheaded Full Member

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    Wow. I guess it's such a wild, unrefined attack that Quarry was shocked at what was happening. His punches are so wide, and so poorly thrown that Frazier makes the man look even more amateurish than he already is.
     
  10. Mandela2039

    Mandela2039 Philippians 2:10-11 Full Member

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    There was one of Frazier literally jumping into the face of a guy and hitting him with a left hook that starched the poor fella, it looked like he had died right there

    does this description ring a bell to anyone? it's similar to the left hook Joe hit Ali with
     
  11. Devon

    Devon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    The Frazier vs Foreman 1 fight was over early.
     
  12. Steve Fero

    Steve Fero Member Full Member

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    The greatness of Frazier is hard to put in words. Yes it was stamina but much more than that. It was power and strength but as we know not so much that he could slug on even terms with the likes of Foreman. It was punch at fairly good quickness and high volume at consistent middle \ high power with insane stamina to keep it up for a whole fight. Then a rubbery slippery body range of motion that made it hard to hit him or out position him. That’s why he beat Chuvalo Ellis Quarry and Bonavena so decisively and was able to fight Ali so tough in spite of Ali seeming to hold all physical and skill advantages. Oh yes and toughness and determination on the level of anyone who ever fought.
     
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