I've been asked by a few posters on here what my scorecard was for Foreman--Briggs. I'll watch the fight right now and give my card and commentary. Note: To anyone doubting my card, keep in mind that I am not scoring points to Foreman for plodding forward or due to Shannon huffing and puffing. These are not significant scoring criteria. I will be looking at who is doing the cleaner punching. Round 1: Briggs 1-0 due to clean punching. Round 2, 3, and 4 for George Round 5 for Briggs. He owned clean punching in this round despite backing up and having full blown biased HBO commentary against him. Round 6 for Briggs. Nice work with the left hook. George did little but jab and walk forward. Round 7 for Briggs. George took the round off. Round 8 for George. Round 9 Briggs. He sat on some hard, clean punches early and late in the round. It was otherwise close. Round 10 Briggs. Stole it. Round 11 to George closely. Round 12 to Briggs for a late rally. 7-5 Briggs. 5, 9, 11, and 12 were swing rounds and I gave 3 to Briggs. HBO was pretty biased for their coworker other than Roy and Lederman blindly scored for the aggressor, which he was prone to do. This content is protected
I don’t think either man can claim to have decisively beaten the other. At best they both did barely enough NOT to lose if I can put it that way. The only difference which really matters is that Foreman was about 14 months shy of his 50th birthday. So Kudos to Briggs for not getting KTFO !!!
haven't watched that in a long time, but that's about how I remember it. Briggs was quicker and if not for the asthma and having to take time off, would have probably won comfortably. This was Briggs first step up fight in his career and it was for a "championship." He had lost by knockout to Darroll Wilson the previous year and he had done nothing to earn a title shot. His previous opponents had a combined record of 282-327-28. As I mentioned earlier, it shows that Foreman was putting butts in seats and had HBO and whoever was sanctioning the title under his control, they obviously let him pick his opponent. Briggs had done absolutely nothing to deserve a title shot except show that he could be knocked out by Wilson and that he had asthma/stamina problems. It's a shame that someone who deserved a title shot didn't get it while Foreman and his team picked Briggs.
I agree, Briggs shouldn't have gotten Foreman. But it's not as if Foreman all of a sudden hadn't picked a monster to defend his mythical title against. Schulz, Savarese, Grimsley and Briggs - neither one of them deserved any title shots. At all. Ever.
No belt was on the line beyond the “lineal” title. George was stripped of the others for not fighting Tucker or rematching Schultz.
I have never heard anyone say that Briggs won this. Not once. I honestly don't remember much about the fight myself, and am not about to watch it again.
Sure it is. Fights aren't scored based on post fight comments, looking surprised as the decision is announced, or looking beaten up after the fight.
Interesting, i remember thinking Foreman was robbed here and very lucky against Savarese and Shultz. Its been a very long time since ive watched any of these fights though.
When you give explanations why Briggs clearly won some rounds, & never say anything for Foreman other noting he won a round or "closely" it looks like bias. NO rounds earned a "clearly Foreman" or you can say he dominated? And which of the last rounds you say were close did you give to who? Your usual uber-taciturn style does not well serve us if you do not treat each guy equally or even weigh in on all rounds so others can evaluate that.
Foreman broke Briggs nose in the 12th, battering him for the first two-thirds of the round. Briggs only came alive in the waning seconds to exchange with George. It was nowhere near enough to give Briggs the round. Nor was it an even round. It was a decisive round for Foreman.
This has to be one of the most biased scorecards for a fight that I've ever seen (second only to Colonel Sanders scoring a round with a KD even) which is the only way you can justify giving the fight to Briggs.