Before He Died, Joe Frazier Named The 5 Hardest Punchers He Ever Faced

Before He Died, Joe Frazier Named The 5 Hardest Punchers He Ever Faced Everyone asked Joe Frazier about Muhammad Ali. But the real question was different — who actually hurt him? Across decades of interviews, gym stories, and fight records, Frazier quietly answered that question himself, and almost nobody was listening. This video breaks down the five men Joe Frazier admitted hit him hardest: George Foreman, the mechanical monster who dropped him six times in Kingston. Muhammad Ali, whose power across 42 rounds and three wars went far beyond the rivalry headlines. Cleveland Williams, "The Big Cat," felt in a forgotten Houston exhibition. Ron Lyle, the ex-convict who hit so hard even Foreman feared him in the gym. And Oscar Bonavena, the only other man besides Foreman to ever knock Frazier down. Five names, five kinds of violence, one honest truth Frazier gave us long before he died in 2011 — if we'd only been paying attention.