Why didn't Mike Tyson and George Foreman ever fight?

He was a wolf in sheeps clothing according to Tyson.

 

Damatos entire history of managing w Torres and Patty was avoiding dangerous fighters. Tyson would be no different. You are wrong boy. Yo heeero was told to avoid Foreman types at all cost. Quotes from those there prove it. So when the real Foreman came back just to get a part of you slobberings lust object Mike, well that boy saw rank fear invade his bowels. Face it boy your hero never stood up to a tough fighter and won. Self doubt filled his terrified little ego and prevented him from facing the human wall that was George Foreman. You think Douglas Holyfield . Williams McBride and Lewis ****ed Mikey up, jaze Foreman would of rolled than nugget up walked over and stuck it right up Rooneys ass. Boy a beatdown. Ugly. 5th ward all again. Find Ali to stop the monster again.

 

Styles make fights bud. Buy another mag and learn this. As for now,"out of the way son. You're using my oxygen".

 

Who the **** is Jack Nicholson?

 

Wouldn't a Foreman vs Tyson fight in the 90's been an enormous ppv earner the reward would be record purses for the pair of them. Foreman always seemed keen on the fight unlike the possibly of fighting Bowe or Lewis.

 

Because he didnt want to:

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It was a stylistic nightmare and a lose lose situation. Even if Tyson won he wouldn't get much credit so he opted not to go through with it

 

A stylistic nightmare? Plodding slow as molasses Foreman against a lightning fast combination puncher like Tyson? The same Foreman who took a beating from Alex Stewart, whom Tyson KO'd in a round. I like Big George as much as anyone but his second incarnation ain't beating the 80s Tyson. He might have beaten the post prison Tyson, who was basically just a hard punching six round fighter by then. If Tyson didn't get him early, it would probably end up like the Lewis fight.

 

Common sense, right? Great post, by the way. It's just too obvious. Although I do think even post prison Tyson is too much for Old Foreman, the same Old Foreman who struggled "beating" Axel Schulz. The same Old Foreman who "barely" beat Alex Stewart, a 1st round Tyson KO victim. The same Old Foreman who "barely" beat Crawford Grimsley, who evidently got KO'd in record setting fashion in his very next fight against Jimmy Thunder. The same Old Foreman who "beat" Lou Savarese by a split verdict, another 1st round Tyson KO victim, this time in 38 seconds no less.

Big fan of Comeback Foreman, I am. I wanted a Tyson-Foreman battle just as bad as the next guy. But we need to be honest with ourselves. Also, Razor Ruddock was a better fighter than Comeback Foreman and Tyson took care of him twice. Imagine the uproar if Tyson never fought Razor Ruddock?

 

Foreman was so keen on the fight that when it was presented to him on 3 separate occasions he turned his back and went elsewhere. There's absolutely no proof that Cus told Mike to avoid George and yet there's documented evidence suggesting that Foreman didn't want to sign on the dotted line. But that's today's youth for you.

 

Yes stylistic nightmare

Power: foreman
Chin: foreman
Stamina: foreman
Height: foreman
Reach: foreman
Physical strength: foreman
Speed: Tyson

Foreman will be using a battering long jab, picking his shots, and shoving tyson back into his punching range constantly. Tyson cant fight backing up and has a mediocre inside game where if he tries to press the issue anyway, gets mauled. In other words, he will have a hell of a hard time winning a decision. Stopping even an old foreman would be a daunting task.

Stop mentioning Stewart and Morrison who were 6'2 and 6'3 and had longer arms than Tyson. They fought DEFENSIVE fights backing away from foreman. If you can show me footage of mike tyson getting on his bicycle and outboxing a larger opponent you'll have a leg to stand on, otherwise this is just ABC logic nonsense.

Foreman makes Tyson his kid. It would not even be competitive. Tyson lands a few quick combinations in the 1st but then it gets really ugly and Tyson loses a lot of energy wrestling, getting pushed, and bobbing and weaving right into sledgehammer hooks and uppers. He is stopped in 6 or less.

Prime tyson might last the distance if he is very careful but I dont see him actually getting the decision due to not being able to land enough to convincingly win rounds. He has a punchers chance if he were to blitz foreman early and get a referee stoppage, but other than that slim chance. His style falls right into foremana hands. The more aggressive he is, the more opportunities foreman has to close the show and if u disagree you arent being honest about how these styles clash.

 

I don't believe that Tyson was afraid of anyone. If it came from Tyson's camp, I would say it was more along the line of his handlers knew that he had stylistically declined too much.

Similarly, I know Foreman would have gotten it on--but ONLY if a title was involved.

It may be just a case of two guys who didn't need each other.

 

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