Joe Frazier vs George Chuvalo | REMASTERED VERSION | HD | 1967 | EARLY STOPPAGE

Joe Frazier KOs George Chuvalo This Day July 19, 1967 (This Day In Boxing History) STOPPED TO SOON!!!! Bad Cut stopped the fight. Incredible remastered footage from 1967. Joe Frazier 205 lbs beat George Chuvalo 217 lbs by TKO at 0:16 in round 4 of 10 Location: Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, USA Frazier opened a cut under Chuvalo’s right eye. Mark Kram of Sports Illustrated reported: “The cut was shaped like a scimitar and it went to the bone (later it was discovered that the bone was broken, requiring surgery), and the eye, seemingly ready to burst, was just a slit. There was another cut on the outside of his left eye and a gash on the top of his scalp.” Mark Kram further reported: “The fight was supposed to be a war, but it never had time to develop. Chuvalo’s face was smeared with blood as hook after hook banged into the right side of his rocklike head by the second round. Between the second and third rounds, the face turned purple. The thir
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