The Thrilla in Manila Explained - Ali vs Frazier 3 Breakdown
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Channel: The Modern Martial Artist
Views: 9,134,743
Rating: 4.785593 out of 5
Keywords: thrilla in manila, muhammad ali, joe frazier, fight of the century, epic rematch, explained, rumble in the jungle, ali frazier 1, ali frazier 2, alie frazier 3, breakdown, boxing
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Length: 29min 49sec (1789 seconds)
Published: Tue Feb 26 2019
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Heavyweights throwing so many punches like they're lightweights under 110 F and 90% humidity for 14 rounds...Amazing
Love Smokin' Joe. My favourite.
It always astonishes me that with such big fights where the entire world was watching and insanely huge money being poured into these fights, literally hundreds of millions of dollars in todays money... the judges for these big fights in the 70s were great, the judges were fair and not corrupt, and always judged these big fights 'correctly' where most people watching the fights could agree with the decisions. The only exceptions I can think of that showed unfair judging in the 70s were the Ali-Norton fights. Other than that, these big fights like Ali-Frazier 1-3, Ali-Foreman, Frazier-Foreman 2, and most other big fights from the 70s, there were no corrupt judging like we have today. Some of these fights ended in stoppage, but if you go back and look at the scorecards at the time of the stopppages, the scorecards were still accurate.
So, how does this happen? How did we got to where we are today? How do we get the Canelo biased scorecards in so many of his fights? How did we get the infamous 118-110 scorecard? The Wilder-Fury 115-111 in Wilder's favour, and so many other bad scorecards. People say that it is because of huge money, and they say 'where there's a lot of money, there's a lot of corruption'... but the 70s had the most money poured into fights and the scorecards were still pretty accurate for the most part. So how does this happen where today they are not anymore? Just looking at the Ali-Frazier trilogy where the entire world was watching, these big fights still had accurate scorecards and no bad judging. How do we today have such bad judges during big fights?? And please, the answer can't be as naive as "incompetent judges", I refuse to believe that, why didn't we have these incompetent judges during the biggest fights in the 70s then?
My favorite "I'm glad I'm not a judge" fight. The first two fights were about skill. The third was about heart. George Foreman knocked down Frazier more times than we can count but he never "stopped" him. He kept rising. Frazier would have fought until he died. Same in this fight his coach really loved him. Joe probably harbored I'll feelings towards him for years but he did the right thing. Every time I rant about how we should go back to 15 rounders I come back to this bout. This is simply not normal. I've seen guys in the gym, full of talent, get hit once and never come back. This is... Inhuman. Some Wolverine level of durability.
How they both didn't die is beyond me
Another great video from his channel. Great work, was interesting to watch