Joe Fraser

I think it's four people in event finals, two people in the top 12 of the all-around, and two medals.

Well, when you've got people like Joe and Harry probably locks for this team, Harry's probably going to make two to three event finals on his own, to be completely honest.

Joe in there probably for... like high bar parallel bars you're looking at.

And then of course, Jake is the reigning world champion.

And so what I don't know is going through the selection committee's mind is.

So another thing that's interesting about the team composition here at the Scotland slash Great Britain didn't choose to compete here, so he is relying on the scores that he had used from the home team championships, the British championships, and the Commonwealth Games for that selection.

If I were the committee, I think I would take Ruben for the team.

I think the team most likely for the British is going to be Joe Fraser, Harry Hepworth, Jake Jarman, Ruben Ward, Luke Whitehouse.

I feel like for a long time she was very underrated.

I remember when she went for Watchmen, Joe.

You're like, wow, she's really underrated.

And then obviously went on the Hacks run.

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World heavyweight title on the line.

Smoking Joe Fraser versus Jerry Quare.

And now Quarry actually came out like he said he would in the lead up to the fight.

And he said he'd beat the champion head on for a wild round that could have been contested in a phone box.

But the ref, Cooper... just about survives on his feet, and to hear that bell, and he's actually helped by the gumshoe, which comes out, the referee, big massive guy, 10 seconds, when it's great fun, to try and put his gumshoe back in, but wow, what a tremendous round of boxing.

Without a doubt, it's one of the greatest heavyweight slugfests of all time.

Mora went on to get the job done in the fifth, and did you know Burt Cooper came out of Philadelphia and was trained in his early years by Joe Fraser, and it was the legendary heavyweight that handed Cooper his nickname, Smoking Cooper.

And it was the legendary heavyweight that handed Cooper his nickname, Smoking.

... and last event.

And I will say, when Joe, when Joe Fraser went up on floor for Great Britain and he did his, like, back two and a half to punch layout, which he had kind of flopped in qualifying, I, like, literally almost bit my tongue off.

I was so scared.

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And at this point, the commentators were starting to say like, "Oh, are the Swiss even gonna be able to hold on to, to a medal spot? Like, can Italy come from behind and can they take over?" As we're heading into the final rotation, can you, can you describe, like, what you were feeling, what you were anticipating, and then what routines you were most eager to watch or most afraid to watch?

Well, I knew that Russia can put up a really strong high bar, so I knew there was definitely a lot to watch out for there.

But Great Britain finishing on floor was so tricky because Joe Fraser had troubles with it we had seen already.

And then obviously Harry Hit Catholicism hath a very, very big potential routine.

In terms of the all-around competition, it was a juicy one for sure.

So coming in, I felt it probably was going to be between Arseny Dakhno, Ilya Kovtun, Joe Fraser, and Daniel Marinov.

And following the second round of qualifying, Dakhno and Marinov were in 1-2 with Kovtun and Fraser to go.

So Joe was doing so well in competition until he went too far.