Joe Frazier tribute

[GJC]

GJC you say Frazier never had longevity yet he was champion for 5yrs

Well 5 years depending on whether you count his reign from Mathis or Ellis but I take you point Sonny. I guess what I mean is for my money Frazier was fading after the FOTC when he was 27/28? Might have been because he felt he had climbed the mountain at that point so to speak but I've always found with fighters like Frazier that you don't see them being the force they were at 30 or they don't make old bones as a fighter so to speak. If a Marciano/Frazier clone came along tomorrow I'd reckon on a 3 or 4 year meteoric peak then a very swift decline. Whilst Foreman wasn't a great stylistic match up for Foreman I think it would have been far more competetive with a 69 Frazier