Your Thoughts On Michael Moorer - Heavyweight.

Foreman set him up perfectly. A lot of pitter pat punches through out the early rds, let him get used to that, Moorer stayed flat footed in the 10th rd , probably thought the old man had nothing left than boom, good night Michael Moorer .
The old saying is and has been proven time after time is the last thing a puncher looses is his punch. What happened to Michael Moorer is testament to that.

 

I do agree with you there that Foreman didn't think he would win a decision. I put the loss squarely on Moorer making a tactical mistake more than on Foreman executing a game plan. All Moorer had to do was get on his bike like Tommy Morrison did but he was looking to make a statement and finish Foreman. He will forever be known more for that fight than for being a two time heavyweight champ, first southpaw heavyweight champ and only the 2nd light heavy to win the heavyweight title.

 

I’m sure the press was being fed a narrative by Manny to get his guy some notice. He had a banger so try to get him some publicity. What do you expect him to do, tell the press that he’s a good fighter but has no personality and is very quiet and keeps to himself — that’s not going to generate interest and nobody wants to write/read that.

At a way, way smaller level, in our club fights that we used to have (my brother would promote and I managed/trained), we tried to find things to help sell identity to our crowd and often it worked. We had a policeman who fought on the side and nicknamed him “The Law” and had him come to the ring to the song “I Fought the Law (and the Law Won).” Place would go crazy. We nicknamed a guy T-Bone and put a big dog bone around his neck, had him come out to “Bad to the Bone” and people chanted T-Bone during his fights.

With Moorer they wanted to convince people they were coming to the fight/tuning in to see a cold-blooded killer. Better than saying he likes knitting and chick flicks.

 

The first "southpaw" fighter to win the HW title.

 

Lol

 

Entertaining stories!
They said the same about McClellan, but in his case I think it was real.
With Moorer, I just couldn't reconcile the narrative to what I was seeing in the ring.

 

Moorer was a talented and capable heavyweight but had no gears and fought like he had no real ambition to win at all costs...at 175 he was special but not at heavy.

 

Yeah Foreman toyed with a lot of guys. Alex Stewart, Axel Schulz, Crawford Grimsley, Lou Savarese...to hell with toying with these guys, Foreman was toying with us fans!

 

Elite enough to beat Holyfield's ass when it mattered.

 

When he had a heart attack and kidney failure, sure.

 

Good HW but glassy chinned one every good puncher would beat his ass

 

That's all you can do here, as usual you bring no substance with your posts

 

If he hadn't taken humongous amounts of steroids, that wouldn't of happened.

 

Brilliant post. Moorer's ego got the better of him.