It's never a good sign when an organization as hopelessly corrupt as the WBC refuses to sanction your fight against their heavyweight champion. But that's exactly what happened for the unranked Marvis Frazier when he took on Larry Holmes back on November 25, 1983.  

While Don King offered Holmes $2.55 million to fight the No. 1 contender Greg Page, Holmes instead wisely turned to the $3.1 million dollar payday against Frazier.  

Now Marvis Frazier is known chiefly for three notable things––he's Joe Frazier's son, Mike Tyson obliterated him into unconsciousness before he'd even hit the ground and his pummeling at the hands of Larry Holmes. 

Everybody tends to remember how startlingly Tyson disposed of poor Marvis Frazier. What gets lost in the mix is how badly Larry Holmes destroyed the inexperienced fighter.

As was the case later on with Mike Tyson, Holmes needed less than a round to put Frazier away. But the style in which he did so is something to watch.

Few remember that Marvis Frazier was actually a very impressive prospect as an amateur. Besides being a 1979 National Golden Gloves Heavyweight Champion and the 1980 AAU Heavyweight Champion, his amateur record stood at 56 wins and two losses. 

Frazier had victories over some pretty impressive names in the amateurs. Among his list victims are former Tyson foe Mitch Green, and future champions Tim Witherspoon and Bonecrusher Smith.  

On paper, Frazier taking on Holmes didn't look a whole lot worse than Leon Spinks taking on Muhammad Ali. But obviously, Frazier didn't fare anywhere close as well against Holmes as Spinks did against "The Greatest."Larry Holmes, for my money nearly as underrated a heavyweight champion as Lennox Lewis, puts on an exhibition of why, in his prime, he'd have given a slew of all-time greats serious trouble. His jab alone is the class of heavyweight greats. But in his fight against Frazier, Holmes shows just how powerful a puncher he was on top of his technical majesty. 

One of the reasons this fight is especially amusing is how cavalierly Frazier behaves with his hands down only to receive massive punishment as his reward. 

It's hard not to imagine Joe Frazier looking on for the final series of vicious windmill right hands Holmes unleashes. 

Surreal fight.