Do you feel sorry for Joe Frazier when you watch this fight?

[johnsebastianmiran]

I liked Joe over the years but he made some big mistakes and the first was showing up in the shape he was in. Joe should have got in close and rested his head on Foreman's chest as the late Ray Arcel and Freddy Brown former trainers of Roberto Duran and hit the body. His head movement was good but he stayed in front of big George. He needed a forty five degree angle and not a Karate horse stance facing him directly. Frazier couldn't jab with him and Foreman was fighting tall. The biggest mistake of all was Joe backing up and giving George punching room and you also can't wipe out the memory of their last fight. I believe this was a rematch he should never have had and he actually developed some bad habits of lunging like he did with Ali. The height difference and the clubbing right hand would have had me personally hiring a limousine to catch after the end of the first round. I would have moved so fast people would be wondering if I ever showed up. Yes I felt really bad and Joe should have prepared more or not have signed on the dotted line.

[brocktonblockbust]

I liked Joe over the years but he made some big mistakes and the first was showing up in the shape he was in. Joe should have got in close and rested his head on Foreman's chest as the late Ray Arcel and Freddy Brown former trainers of Roberto Duran and hit the body. His head movement was good but he stayed in front of big George. He needed a forty five degree angle and not a Karate horse stance facing him directly. Frazier couldn't jab with him and Foreman was fighting tall. The biggest mistake of all was Joe backing up and giving George punching room and you also can't wipe out the memory of their last fight. I believe this was a rematch he should never have had and he actually developed some bad habits of lunging like he did with Ali. The height difference and the clubbing right hand would have had me personally hiring a limousine to catch after the end of the first round. I would have moved so fast people would be wondering if I ever showed up. Yes I felt really bad and Joe should have prepared more or not have signed on the dotted line.

You are the kind of poster the kind of a human being and the kind of a saddoboxing fellow member who I really enjoy reading. Your posts are sincere and on the topic and you have a very kind and friendly demeanor which is very important. I appreciated your analysis of that fight very much my friend. I am also glad to see that on the human side or let's say on the emotional side that you too understood what I meant when I said that I felt sorry for him in this rematch. I also understand the previous poster's excellent point about how if he didn't have a better fight plan then that then how can we feel sorry for him. That is a point that I will try to remember from now on whenever I watch that fight. It is a valid point. If you get clubbed like that in two rounds the first time around in Kingston Jamaica then when you go to have the rematch you have a silly plan which doesn't really work or just the fact that you want a rematch to begin with means that whatever you have coming to you you will get or vice versa. Thank you for your excellent analysis my friend. Oh yes please do me a favor and send a message to that wretch @ruthless rocco The reason I say that is we are hoping here on the side of good that maybe some of your positive energy and friendliness will rub off on that miserable cockroach.