Joe Frazier followed up his triumph in the “Match of the Century” with a win in the “Mis Match of the Century” just ten months later.
The outcome was settled the minute the fight was announced, Frazier beat an overmatched opponent, Terry Daniels, who was literally thrown into the Lion's den.
Never mind that Daniels lasted longer with Frazier than had Bob Foster or Dave Zyglewicz, or lasted I a heavyweight title fight as long as Tony Galento or Georges Carpentier, he was never in it to begin with.
Sure, as Frazier later admitted to his intimate friends, he had “taken Daniels too lightly,” and been “hurt,” Terry should have been in there in the first place.
Coming into the fight with a streak of two consecutive wins, Daniels was properly ranked #42 by Boxing illustrated on the day the fight was announced. And he had gained that exalted ranking by knocking out one Ted Gullick of Cleveland after being kayoed by Jack O'Halloran of Boston, ranked numbers 46 and 34 respectively. But, in order to dignify the match, the first heavyweight title fight held in New Orleans since the Sullivan-Corbett fight, the World Boxing Associated elevated Daniels to the number ten ranking...excerpted from BI magazine April 1972
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