This should garner some very interesting debate...just for good measure, we'll add the championship for spice. It's up for grabs in a twelve-rounder between these two. Thoughts?
Frazier 71 was a different version to the one George destroyed, & obviously George circa 91 was different. Also Frazier got tougher as a fight progressed However none of that is enough to overcome George's style advantages. Foreman by late TKO
i don't care if George is 65 and in an old folkes home and Frazier is 22 and taking PEDs Big George demolishes him
I disagree with that. If there was a difference, it was not a drastic one. However I agree with your pick. Styles are just so much in favor of George that he takes it
George is always going to hit hard and Frazier is always going get hit by sweeping punches and uppercuts. George probably wins just as easily as he did.
I don't know how anyone can pick the much slower fat Foreman of 1991 over Frazier. It wasn't just the size and power of young Foreman that was too much for Frazier, it was also his intensity. He merely overwhelmed Frazier with power, intensity and agression. The more patient much slower version doesn't hit Frazier as much and Joe outworks him.
Uh-huh. Foreman used his under-rated quickness of assault & high-output to cripple Frazier's chances of recovery once he had him hurt. Those are qualities which are firmly gone by the time he reached age forty-two. Foreman had plenty of size & raw strength, a huge punch (but no longer the ability to really put rallies of heavy artillery together), a great chin, &, finally, excellent composure during the height of his comeback. He would make life difficult for Frazier, inside-&-out. The killer instinct & volume punching were largely eroded, though, & I think, as much as anything, that's the difference here. Foreman was one tough nut alright, but he'd be hanging on against Frazier's bodyassault & insane work-rate in rounds nine, ten, eleven. I think his corner make a merciful call before the final stanza. The early rounds, though, would be most interesting --- while Foreman was still fresh & untouched by Frazier's bodyattack, his battering jab & overall strength would have Frazier working hard.
The difference in age is enough to negate the truly horrible style problems Frazier faced in George. A 1971 Frazier gives ANY HW in history plenty to think about. And that version of Joe is too much for a very, very shopworn Foreman. Of that I have no doubt. MTF
I wonder where the '91 Foreman would rank amongst Frazier's best opposition during his actual career, from '65-76? Perhaps a notch below Quarry & Bonavena (perhaps not), but above most of the rest.
