1974 George Foreman vs 2017 Anthony Joshua: Does Foreman make it to the finish line

You gravitate right to size and weight again? Meaningless in this fight.

Foreman by far the greater technical fighter. It's a seasoned pro true heavyweight champion vs a ....contender not very far removed from the amateur ranks.

Foreman has the advantage in every technical category. From Jab to footwork.

Foreman early within five rounds in a one sided smashing.

 

Foreman would take him out early for mine.

 

Sonny,

Green AJ went life and death with a shot to shid WK who was never that good to begin with except stinking the joint out for a decade and you want him to be in with 73 Foreman ? AJ is stiff as a board , has no head movement, does not set up his shots with a jab, has a mediocre chin and sub par stamina........if Grandpa WK has him down Foreman has him out for the count. Fact.
Insert Foreman instead of AJ against WK and WK is ko'ed within 3 and I am being generous.

WK is completely done, he timing is shot, he cant pull the trigger, he pushes the jab and has no snap in his punches, his stamina is terrible and he never had a good chin from the beginning. Liston, Foreman, Tyson, Lewis and Bowe would have ko'ed that shell senseless without any fuss and Ali, Holmes and Holyfield would whitewashed the cards or stop him late, another fact.

One more time , WK is done, actually for some time now, stick a fork in him, so beating that 42 year old version means jack.

 

Who the hell did WK ever take out with that "power" ? Nobody of any note and against any threat he did not let his hands go because of his china chin and employed jab and grab for a decade........there is a reason he could not sell his fights in the US most of the time because he stunk the joint out even against C level opposition a la Mormeck....

 

You are very easily impressed. AJ has not proved himself to be anything aside from inexperienced. Foreman was an ATG fighter and a ATG worlds hwt champion. Much higher pedigree.

 

AJ's been on the block 5 minutes and it's a sin to take proven ATG's over him. I'm not overly sold on Wlad and even less so of the ancient version coming off a loss with loads of inactivity to boot. AJ was extremely close to losing. I'll watch him from here on, he has great potential. Hopefully a nice diet of tough competition brings him on to being something pretty special.

Basing the entire fight on Foreman's effort vs Lyle is extremely short sighted.

I'm not concerned with post Ali Foreman, he lost his marbles for some time, second guessed his style, etc. I'll take the version that fought Frazier, Norton and Ali to put AJ to sleep.

 

Foreman while unproven ko'ed Frazier who was held in high esteem because he beat Ali and was overall "smoking".

Foreman bounced him around like a rag doll.........while WK would have labored for a decision win and play it safe....Foreman blew out top rated Norton pretty much right out of the gate while WK went on a track meet with the Heavyweight fraud Davis Haye.....you get my drift?

Foreman, win or loose will come out to take your head off while WK has panic attacks when he gets hit.

Watch Wk against caveman Sam Peter....and that was prime WK......if you have to pull out all the stops to beat that kind of extremely limited fighter you are doomed against Foreman.

 

The Foreman Lyle fought was not 1974 Foreman. The Foreman Lyle fought was probably the worst prime Foreman as he was coming off a 15 month layoff.

 

Foreman destroys him within 4.