George Chuvalo Joe Frazier

In a brutal display of power, Joe Frazier fractures George Chuvalo's orbit (the bone under George's eye is damaged) so badly that Chuvalo needs reconstructive surgery to correct the injury as his eye partially drops into the fault line fracture. A career ending injury for mere mortals, Chuvalo continues his amazing career post surgery to cement his legend.

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[324582782]

@blite13 I heard frazier quit and couldn't see in their third fight and got the beating of his life?. If frazier did win shouldn't he have won the next 2 times too cuz that sounds logic to me.

[blite13]

@324582782 Who cares what you would give it, it means NOTHING what you think.

[324582782]

@blite13 you think you know, I would give this fight a draw at best

[1899sharkey]

@Triangulove - It was a great fight and night for boxing. Iwas a yougster rooting for Ali. The only thing they had besides closed circuit for the fight was round by round analysis by Patterson between rounds of what he thought was going on. If i remember right he had it close as did referee Mercante (8-6-1 ) If ...and thats a big word, Ali would have taken the last round he would have got a draw on ref's card but still lost the other two cards.

[Triangulove]

@1899sharkey

The commentators themselves note a welt on Fraziers face, close to his jaw line. I am sure they both suffered great injuries. And I think, in this particular fight Frazier had the upper hand, hence the win, but I don't think, outside the formentioned round 11, he dominated ali. I think 80% of the fight was a lot of tough exchanges, and frazier did dominate the other 30% of it. That's just what I saw though.

[1899sharkey]

@Triangulove - I hate not to agree with you but Frazier suffered no jaw injuries. His face was a mask of lumps especially over the eyes. Ali did land a lot of punches but this was not scored by amateur rules(a jab counts as much as a powerful hook). Joe dominated this fight by all accounts, almosy knocking Ali out in the 11th.

[Triangulove]

@1899sharkey

He did suffer a jaw injury toward the end of the fight, as did ali. Joes entire left jaw area was welted, and he was nearly blind in one eye. I am not saying ali won the fight, but he landed a lot of punches, and it showed on joes face afterwards.

[finerbiner]

@3244gorilla Any person who thinks that the this person only beat that person and another beat them more stuff can not be taken seriously. It has exactly zero value in predicting anything. It is plain DUMB.

[1899sharkey]

@finerbiner - You're right. He wasn't a better fighter but he was a little stronger. I've never said that a '71 Joe would beat a '67 Ali, only that it would be a great fight.

[finerbiner]

@1899sharkey Bigger and stronger are not the same as better. When Ali beat Liston was he bigger and stronger than him? What is not believable is that Ali would hone his craft for a decade, to the point of becoming the worlds clear best, take 3.5 yrs off and come back better. The returning Ali showed the world how tough he was, but he was not better.