PRIME Joe Frazier STOPS 91' Foreman... Prime Joe will Find it EASIER to Bob 'n Weave his Way into the Pocket, where he'd OutLAND & OutWORK Foreman, Leading to a Late, Merciful Stoppage by his Corner... Prime Frazier WOULDN'T Get Caught on the END of an Old Foreman's Jab & Right Hand... REED:Lok:
either what reed says, or Foreman is able to push Frazier off and catch him often enough to force a stoppage around 8th round. I could see this going either way
I think Frazier outworks him to a decision, but he has difficulty with the ramrod jab and the strength and power of Foreman. Foreman would still be pushing him off and hurting him...but his intensity had diminished so much by that point that it allows Frazer to get into a rhythm. I don't see Frazer stopping Foreman though.....virtually no chance of that happening.
Frazier would have to fight him the way he did in the rematch and the way he fought Bonavena the first time. He'd still struggle like hell but I think he'd gut out a decision. I can't see Frazier camping inside and getting a KO personally, George would still just shove him away
Frazier will struggle because thats what he almost always did. Ron Stander and Bonavena were some slow fucks, but Joe found a way to make it complicated. Against old Foreman, he will find a way to walk into something and get fazed. The difference is here is that Prime Joe does not have 15 rounds of hospitalizing hell under his belt dating from Ali in '71 and that old George isn't as sharp. He'd hurt Joe, but not as badly as in '73, and he'd be too slow to follow up. By then Joe would be recovering anyways. Its Joe by a very very late stoppage or decision after some very hairy moments early on.
Ron Stander got in one good shot in the first round and then spent the rest of the fight getting his face pounded to mush that's the most overrated "close" fight ever... Stander managed to win 2 seconds of the fight, other than that it was a landslide And Bonavena gave everyone trouble, he was a good contender and very strong
