Mike Tyson vs George Foreman 1988

The 75% of the posts are from certain stupid who did start the thread. Trying to convince anyone

 

No-one seems to be taking into account that this thread is about 1988, when Foreman had been back a year. Even when he shook off all the ring rust, which elite fighter did he kayo? Cooper and Moorer are his best wins and 88 Tyson is in a different stratosphere to them.

Tyson still had a lot left in 88 and took a good punch. I see this fight going the way of Bruno 2 with Foreman taking combinations and unable to defend himself. Look at the way Holyfield had him rocking with combinations - Tyson could still do that in 88. George barely survived Holy's onslaught; imagine if those punches had had Tyson's power. A truly horrible beating sends Foreman into retirement after a year of his comback, never to be heard of again.

It does leave a vacancy in who fronts the marketing for the lean, mean grilling machine. I see Riddick Bowe as the man that would have (b)eaten the man to claim that honour.

 

What? I think that you was watching another fight . foreman took every single shot and combination from a peak evander holyfield, with 1/3 of this old evander stopped Tyson.If Tyson beats a 88 foreman it would be by decision and he(Tyson) would be in a few scary moments.comparing Bruno with 88 foreman is laughable with all my respects sr,George not only was stronger,bigger But he had a much better chin ,much better heavier jab,more power ,did cut The ring better ,he had much more pedigree as fighter,was a much better finisher ,88 foreman had much better stamina than Bruno and mentally was much tougher, plus foreman stylisticaly was much worse for tyson. If foreman could be happy facing certain style of a top fighter in 1988 it would be tyson's . guys like lewis,evander and maybe even bowe could outbox this ponderous version of george,but tyson did not have the correct style to face foreman, even fighting each other in 1988 peak vs old. The stylistical advantage of foreman would be enough to put him a close dangerous fight

 

It never ceases to amaze me how often people will ask the derisive rhetorical question, "You're comparing X to Y???" as if to imply that to draw an analogy or parallel is to make an identity claim, and if X and Y aren't wholly interchangeable and share all properties in equal measure, well then the comparison is just hopelessly absurd, and they can't be bothered to explain why.

"Are you really comparing eggs to seeds? Yeah okay genius, try planting some eggs in the ground and see what kind of crops grow..."

 

LOL@ the comeback revisionism..............most of the posters on this thread were not even born in the 80's let alone sooner.........plus the Cus story of Foreman beating Tyson is a total myth......you tell a lie enough eventually it becomes the truth, lol

"I hope Foreman fights me so I can kill that old fossil" Mike Tyson interview late 80's/early 90's.

Foremans comeback was seen nothing more than a novelty act/clown show and absolutely no elite took him serious. He fought strictly cans until a title shot, lost, more cans, another title shot, lost, more cans, another title shot, finally won against a mentally feeble glass chinned Light heavy and subsequently was stripped because he refused to fight anybody worth a lick.

All smoke and mirrors with Arum fixing some fights for him.

Arum/Pac did the same thing, using Mayweather as a marketing ploy with no intention to fight until the cows come home.

Comeback Foreman was slow beyond slow and wiiiiiide open for counters......86-89 Tyson would have landed every punch in the book with almost nil eating in return.............Foreman avoided ANY talent , period, unless it was a title shot, no Bonecrusher, Tucker, Mercer, Ruddock, Bruno, Golata, Lewis, Bowe and the list goes on and on and on.

Tyson /Foreman in the 80's is a total one sided massacre and even the not on all cylinders firing Tyson from the Ruddock fights gives him a savage beating.

Foreman was all about making the MOST money with the LEAST amount of risk.

 

Foreman beats any version of Tyson. The only way you beat Foreman is to outbox him...Tyson isn’t that guy, ever. Sorry!

 

The only clown here is you and every single word that you wrote is biased garbage so your post will be ignored like trash.
(Btw,you invented the words of tyson of this interview,you are so ridiculous).
What tyson said was "and then i will fight this guy foreman before his rigor mortis"

 

I never said Foreman didn’t struggle with lesser fighters than Tyson. The point I made is that the fighters who troubled him most did so as a responsible boxer.

I’m interested to hear you name a fighter who fought Foreman in a seek and destroy manner AND survived the return fire to emerge with their arm raised in victory.

Let me help you out:

1st loss: Ali boxed Foreman before the KO
2nd loss: Young boxed Foreman for the win
3rd loss: Holyfield fought a disciplined fight for the win
4th loss: Morrison boxed the fight of his life against Foreman for the win. If he’d have fought like he did against Mercer, he would’ve been stretched out like Moorer was.
5th loss: Briggs tried to box and actually should have lost the fight.

I’m sorry, but I don’t think Tyson had the discipline to box Foreman to a decision. Plus old Foreman has more heart, tenacity, and will to win than Tyson ever showed. Tyson may have started fast and gotten to Foreman early, but once he saw Big George wasn’t going to “enter into a silent agreement”, as Teddy Atlas would say, he’d fall apart psychologically before Foreman drops a bomb on him and leaves him in a prone position with the ref counting to any number he wishes well past the required 10.

I look forward to your response.

 

I like your name...I take it you’re a Marciano fan.

 

Seeing as that you have 32,000 posts in these forums I’m sure you’ve heard that “styles make fights.” Stewart and Morrison, both big punchers, turned into mobile boxers the night they fought Foreman. Morrison rightfully won and Stewart was robbed. Thing is Tyson lacks the discipline to box Foreman for 12 rounds. Plus he lacks the character to stay on task with Big George absorbing his best shots.

Not sure if you’re familiar with a poster named UFC2015, but I ran him outta here months ago for being an unapologetic and irrational Tyson worshipper...some might even say he was a Tyson “squirrel food” hugger.

 

This right here...I like the way you think.

 

Are you the same Curtis Lowe Lynard Skynard sang about. Either way it’s a great song worth checking out.

 

I agree with this because Bert Cooper was a dangerous fighter but on this night he wasn't. He is on record saying that he was up 3 nights straight Smoking Crack before this fight.
Foreman did what he was supposed to do. Cooper did say after that he quit because he didn't want brain damage. That was funny because Smoking Crack didn' scare him but Foreman's wrecking ball punches did. George was still hitting hard