These threads are fun to read. It's starts off decently with a mythical matchup between a prime Holyfield and a prime Frazier..... and somehow gets derailed into Max claiming that David Haye (of all people) would beat Ali. Priceless shit!!!

First the topic at hand:

Joe was not the.... what was it.... "feather-fisted, blind, punching bag bum"..... that a couple of deluded posters on here disrespectfully make him out to be. That is beyond ludicrous. Joe Frazier was heavyweight champion of the world, and accumulated plenty of knockouts himself until he pretty much got ruined between his fights with Ali and his massacre at the hands of Big George Foreman.

I'd still have to favor Holyfield, if only because of Holyfield's size, chin, and heart. Frazier would've connected on Holyfield, and maybe wobbled him once or twice. But Holyfield's sheer physicality would've eventually worn out Frazier, for a late round TKO win.

Now on to Haye vs. Ali........

Are you mad?!?!?!?


Also, let me put an argument to rest right here and now:

The difference between Ali's opponents, Frazier's opponents, and Wlad's opponents is the following:

Neither Ali's opponents nor Frazier's opponents entered the ring already beaten, with a load of shit in their pants and empty space where their balls used to be. Wlad's opponents, Haye included, do a lot of talking and promising. But just like politicians, when they enter the ring all they have in mind is to find the nearest corner to lay down, or how to survive with the least amount of pain so they can collect their unearned checks.

What they don't realize is that Wlad himself is scared shitless of taking one on the chin, thus resulting in boring, pawing, grappling, clutching, mauling fights.