Joe Frazier vs Muhammad Ali - March 8, 1971 - Round 8 - 11 

11:40 How Ali survived the last 46 seconds of round 11 I'll never know.

These two guys went through hell together. Truly two of the best big men off all time in a day when the heavyweight title really was the most prestigious in all of sport.

11:57 look at Joe just chuck Ali off of him. Ali was strong as fuck, when he wanted to octopus hold someone he was always able to, except Joe.

Joe Frazier's head movement is really miles better than Tyson's in his peak in this fight ...

Also, Ali later in life admitted that Joe had won the first fight. This business of "Ali really won the first fight" angers me because it takes away from someone who had so much unjustly taken away from him. Joe Frazier was so ready for this fight he would have died rather than lose to Ali that night, and I will forever give him the glory of having whipped "the Greatest." Joe Frazier "owns" the date March 8, 1971, could have taken on anybody that night, and God bless him.

No matter how I look at this, the way Frazer is fighting in this match is just makes for more beautiful boxing.

Great video and quality. One of the greatest fights of all time.

I love how, at 2:10, Frazier just says, "The hell with this sh*t and literally pulls Ali off the ropes and repositions him in the center of the ring.

This was Joe's great fight. He could never get the conditioning and fitness to fight like this again

Grazie Grande Joe ! Pagine memorabili di uno sport ormai finito ! Che il cielo ti accolga ! Buon Viaggio ..... Tatodellamora

Everybody is talking about "dance like a butterfly and sting like a bee" when old Ali Fights are showing. But have you seen in this fight ,what this man was able to took, without went really down. Amazing!! Anybody else had lost this fight by TKO! ALI is the greatest Champ ever standing in the ring even when he lost!!! Greetings from Germany

Ali barely escaped the 11th round alive, but it also showed his ring smarts at a critical point in the match. Frazier was ready to finish it , but Ali's clowning around made Frazier hesitate just enough for Ali to make out of the round. RIP Muhammad Ali, 🙏 RIP Joe Frazier. 🙏

If you take away Ali's clear loss to Frazier the first time out, you render Ali's comeback not more, but LESS meaningful, less great. Most men would have been too discouraged to embark on the path Ali chose after his loss -- starting back at Square One with fights against all comers, starting with his own former sparring partner Jimmy Ellis. He fought everybody, and whipped himself into shape to face Frazier again and eventually Foreman. Fantastic comeback, greatest in heavyweight boxing.

WAW JOE WAS A HARD MAN, A TRUE CHAMP,RIP

@BiffaBacon thrilla in manila?

I miss the RU-vid before bots! Great commentary in here!

When an unstoppable force meets an unmovable object.Thank you Mr. Ali , R.I.P. Mr. Frazier

They are both amazing athletes-amazing fight.

Cant wait for the last part!

One of my favorite fights by Ali even though he lost. They beat the shit out of each other that night. RIP champ.

@Nemesis2151 yeah, I searched for it too, and was very surprised that this one wasn't uploaded. So when I finally found a copy of it, I uploaded it. :D

Looking at 9: 37, I actually think that was a knockdown.

The last minute of Round 9 - Daaamn!!!

1971 was great

ALI ❤ is ALI ❤...

whata great fight

@ichristian7575 Perhaps You Missed RD 11 & 15?

Just saw the 11th round again. Joe had Ali reeling around like a drunkard! What a beating!

@BoxingPride saved by the bell?

i laughed about some moment in this great fight at 2:07 :D :D just great - they was a friends in and still is!!

Wow, he is still standing, almost falling to the ground, but he keeps his body up. Great fight!

It was the first knockdown of the fight in my opinion

This was when they still had the Championship Rounds- 13 to 15. Frazier was never the same fighter after this fight, but the night belonged to him!

@iiuh1 that's right, when a pressure fighter gets a little older he cannot do it aswell as he used to, frazier was burned out after 12 years, but a boxer like ali and holmes can go on for 20-30 years. like you said; pressure fighting is only effective when you are young.

we all loved you in Beaufort Joe, we knew full well what it was like living there, Tommyg,from BeaufortSC

unbelievable to watch frazier who is as fit in the 11th round as he was in the first. that speed, that hand movement and the upper body movin up and down, maybe a 100000000 times. every other boxer would probably have died right on the spot.

My favorite round is Round 8 which is not much talked about. Frazier landed some wicked left hooks and body shots. Ali barely moved from the ropes and just waited for Frazier to come and attack. Frazier was clearly controlling the fight - at one point he just grabs Ali’s arms and pulls him away from the ropes, only to promptly send him right back to the ropes. At the end of the round, a confident Ali playfully cuffs Ali across the head. I also feel that in Round 9, at about 9:37 - Ali fell from the left hook. Surprised it was called a slippage.

@SigfridKargElert I agree 100%, this is why marciano decided to retire, he could sense what was ahead and he didn't like it.

Greatest Superfight of them all. Listen to sound of punches from both fighters. Im in Ali fan but no man could've beaten Joe Frazier on this night

Even the boxing experts will tell you the best way to watch a fight is on screen,you get all angles of the fight,when your there live you only get on side view of the fight.Nothing about boxing,I boxed for 4 years @ have been watching boxing for 45 years @ have 180 fights on DVD including ALI-Frazier 1,2,3.I live eat,sleep boxing.Very impressed that you saw the fight live though,you must be older then me.

Right. The referee blew the call. It was a solid left hook to the jaw that stunned Ali and knocked him down.

round 8 is the most funny round!!! its juzt so funny!!! What a nice fight!!!

AT 11:40 you can see the left hook to ali's body was what set up the next shot that almost had ali falling.

@supersquid98 Frazier thought so too, he is waiting in the corner for Ali to get the eight count, but is told that is was slip. In an interview, Frazier said: "They said it was a slip, slipped in what? Slipped in this left hook!"

That was a definite knockdown I like Dunphy's call better then Cosell who went overboard calling Ali going down in the 11th as a slip

IDC wat anyone says from 11:20 to 12:35 takes heart...

RIP Joe Frazier...

RIP Joe

5:47-6:03 , what a Rally by Ali !

@SigfridKargElert It's because being a pressure fighter is a lot harder then being a boxer, you alwways have to be in peak physical shape. Your constantly bobbing and weaving, and moving forward all while throwing lots of punches, as well as eating lots of punches too in some cases. Its really a fighting style designed for younger fighters.

Ali had a heart of diamond. even thought he was out on his feet in the eleventh. he still kept going. i fucking love Muhammad Ali he's the king of the galaxy.

lol... at 5:46 ali is coming back and 5:58 he's just killing it frazier deserves respect that he can take those bombs and still keeps coming!!

@musiclover3928 that's what he said. Frazier was dominant, that means he was dominating.... not dominated!

@salvihustlin13 yeah, it could very well be that ht tripped in the leg of Frazier. But I believe the punch took away his balance for a few seconds, can't imagine him tripping like that if his feet is 100% under him.

Please kids enough of the lame excuses for ALi. He was in killer shape for this fight and fought a great fight but Joe fought the fight of his life. He was just better that night. Fuckin get over it.

Alì affrontò Frazier troppo presto.Neppure un anno dopo il rientro e dopo tre anni di inattività. Se solo fosse arrivato più preparato avrebbe vinto agevolmente. Tuttavia la resistenza di Frazier è straordinaria perchè riesce a rimanere in piedi dopo aver incassato una miriade di pugni al volto che avrebbero atterrato chiunque. E' evidente che,perciò, arrivò all'incontro ben più preparato e concentrato di Alì. Dopo quell'incontro però non è stato più lui. Angelo Balzano

Gotta say that slip looked like a knock down to me

@ragers66 will can you tell me witch rounds frazier won in this fight ???? if you can write pleas frazier pummelled !! thats why frazier face so badly he near to lost his 2 eyes and blood all his face and ali very clean face

Yes, even ref Arthur Mechante said Ali could have won if he didn't clown some rounds away. Ali did the same to his own detriment in some of his other important fight s too. He could have been even better if he takes every opponent seriously , but he often cared about showboating more than actually winning the fights impressively ...

@supersquid98 ....it looked like a trip. Look at their feet at 9:36

love joe fraziers boxing style, too bad noone uses it anymore

@aaroncassidy7 i still think that left look like it rocked him a bit and he possibly couldve fell without the wetness in the corner, tough call for the ref

RIPsmokin Joe what a legend...

@Gr33nNdY3llow A knockdown occurs when a boxer, after being hit by his opponent: 1) touches the ring floor with some part of his body other than the feet; 2) has any part of his body outside the ropes; 3) is hanging on the ropes helplessly; or 4) is judged to be in a semi-conscious state and unable to continue fighting.

How Ali survived the last minute of round eleven is really something. And why Frazier didn't go for broke there is puzzling. Ali was out on his feet.

That was a knockdown at the start of 11

@supersquid98 it is because he was better in '71, the fight with Ali really took alot out of Frazier. Foreman once said this: "After beating Muhammad Ali, there was not much left of Joe Frazier. I'm gonna tell you, if I had fought him two years earlier, it would not have been like that." I don't understand how he was able to pull the Thrilla in Manila out of his hat...

whats one difference about this ali and the ali before the layoff is when he goes to punch its like he's in slow motion for 1/2 second before the punch is thrown in other words from the moment his brain says punch until he actually throws there is a split second delay.. has anyone else noticed this?

hard work is how he won.

@DaNnYnlufc Yeah You can Tell by Ali's Reaction-abit Stunned.

Maybe the greatest fight ever. Ali was out on his feet in that 11th, I don't know why Frazier didn't go for broke to knock him out.

@primeboxers he was held up by the ropes, that was a KD.

@ichristian7575 no, the other way around...

I repeat, and this is the last I'm going to say: I was pulling for Ali, I was a total Ali fan, and even I had to admit that night that Frazier had clearly won. Had they given it to Ali, I would have thought it a bad decision, and the judgment of history is that Frazier won. I think it is monumentally ironic and poetically beautiful, actually, that the greatest fight that the greatest was ever in, and this was his greatest fight, was one he lost.

i dont know how frazier survived ali's onslaught at 11:24.. what a chin on that guy

@primeboxers Yeah look at Ali's feet. they said he slipped but his feet barely move. He just swats at air and goes down.

2:10 JOE: COME ON ALI... LETS FIGHT !!

Frazier is the reason that Ali is like he is...

I saw it as a win for Ali,but yes the judges gave it to Frazier.Then they gave Ali the 2nd fight @ we know what happend in the 3rd fight.Remember Ali had been Retired for 3 @ a half years @ I still think he won there first fight.J.Frazier was a great Heavyweight but Ali was the greatest of them all.

Frazier actually pulled Ali off of the ropes! as to say come on man lets fight!

I think Ali was playing possum during some of the time he was "hurt". I know he was hurt initially but when he staggered in to the ropes and then backed up like he was dazed and weary @ 12 : 25, I think he was trying to get Frazier to expose himself.

@DaNnYnlufc look at their feet!

Dunphy had no idea of what he was talking about pro Ali Frazier held Ali REALLY?

1:40 Ali looks confused rope a dope was meant to have the opponent swinging all he had Frazier seemed to be just counting his punches before unloading to the head.

I saw Joe in an interview. He said he knew he'd hurt Ali in round 11, but he thought Ali might be "playing possum", trying to lure Frazier in. I'm sure he was tired, though not as tired as Ali.

@Gr33nNdY3llow Absolutely correct...I don't know how Ali got away horsing around as he did in that 11th round... unfortunately, looking back, Ali lost the fight from the 11th round onwards...Down the stretch...

11:41 nearly a knockout, maybe standing count today!!!!

Wow. You're the first person I've ever heard say that besides me. I believe that Joe Frazier was more ready than anyone has ever been for a heavyweight championship fight, and he would have died that night rather than lose to Ali...!

This is when shit got serious.

Damn, imagine how it was to watch this fight. Nobody in the 11 years before, even Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson, could touch Ali and now you watch this frazier who beats the shit out of him.

How would they pan out against heavyweights of 2022?

when Ali hits back this is a fun fight but he just seems like he can't be bothered to fight, all he wants to do is clinch

Joe Frazier won the first fight by unanimous decision. If the judges had ruled differently, all Madison Square Garden would have erupted in protest. No one booed the decision, everyone knew who had won. Say it all you want, that Ali won. Joe decisively won by unanimous decision. It was his night, his home run in the 15th round. The fact that Ali later beat Joe AND Foreman who annihilated Joe makes Ali AN EVEN GREATER HEAVYWEIGHT. He clearly lost to Frazier, and clearly came back and then some.

Joe, if it were'nt for that damn hog chasin you down at home, your hurtin your left arm for life, you could have connected with a few more of those lefts', but your left arm would'nt stretch that far, rest in peace Joe,we love you.

@Gr33nNdY3llow look at their feet! it was not a knockdown!

I;ve watched this fight over 200 times - based on rounds. which was the scoring ststem of the fight. I can't see how Ali didn''t win least 7 rounds - probably 8 and got a shitty score card - closest was 8-6-1. I think one judge had it 11-4! Fraziers rounds were bigger for Joe, but a round is a round and one could easily argue Ali should have won more rounds>

@SigfrigKargElert frazier had a reason. his health completely deteriorated. he had high blood pressure and diabetes. As well as severe athritic hands that had to get treatment for and his right eye was 95 percent blind. imagine frazier without all that.

@UncleRed1234567 those ppl who say that dont know alot about boxing

Si el usuario reporta alguna anormalidad se lo ataca parando los videos ya es costumbre se depende de alguien que hace esto continuamente

I saw Joe's legs buckle in the ninth round after those Ali uppercuts, but his deep hatred of Muhammad kept Joe on his feet!!