JOE FRAZIER VS JUMBO CUMMINGS

Joe Frazier vs Jumbo Cummings boxing fight. If this was painful to watch for the first few rounds, it became nearly agonizing in the eighth. Cummings a reformed weight lifter, with bunched muscles, and his punches lack the snap of a heavy hitter, but by then he'd had Frazier's nose and mouth bleeding and left eye bulge. Quickly Joe Frazier was in trouble in a corner. Both fighters were tired by now, but Joe Cummings hit Frazier with a series of blows that sent him reeling. Lefts and rights caught Frazier in the body. He crouched and Cummings brought his punches up, pounding Frazier with lefts and rights to the head. A left and right staggered Frazier. His legs wobbled and he seemed about to fall. His head bob-bled like a spring doll's. His mouth was bleeding again. He pitched forward, his legs giving way, and he clutched desperately at Cummings, as if to hold on to what little remained of his boxing life. He was just able to keep his feet. Frazier survived the round and the two that followed, but the sight of him on the stool, with an ice pack pressed to his head, was a sad reminder of the Ali of a year ago. Here was another Gatsby of sport who was trying vainly to recapture the past.Joe Frazier Best boxing fight videos.