Bonecrusher Smith vs George Foreman, Zaire, 1974

Great thread @cross_trainer , this one hit the nerve

 

You have to admire posters that do not allow personal bias to eliminate logic, scale or the ability to focus on stylistic matchups or physical primes ..

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. Iced Bruno more throughly than Lewis, Tyson or Witherspoon

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. No one ever before or since did that to Witherspoon

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. Weaver massacre

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Weaver's chin was not that great and he also wasn't always in good shape. What happened in the rematch with Weaver?

Witherspoon, when he was actually motivated, went the distance. I'd pick several boxers to KO the unmotivated Witherspoon Smith faced in the rematch.

Bruno was almost as easy to hit as Smith was. Both Tyson and Lewis stopped him faster than Smith so what is your point exactly?

For 2 of Smith's best KO wins, he did worse the other times he faced the same boxer! And all 3 were not particularly difficult to stop!

If you mean the nerves firing in my stomach as I'm laughing at the weird leaps of logic, then yes.

 

Looks like you're busier typing than laughing

 

I didn't know you could see my expressions professor X.

If that's all you have to say, you can go back to being irrelevant.

 

I met the original Hispanic Causing Panic once. Nice guy. I always rooted for him because of that nickname. Classic.

 

Exactly.

 

If the thread was about Lennox Lewis or Fury trying to spam clinches and taking Foreman into deep waters late to finish him off, that would be a completely reasonable discussion. They both had high ring IQ and had more to their game plan besides just hugging, like a good jab, combinations, and defense. They also have wins over elite opposition and funnily enough, they both have KO% higher than Smith's abysmal record.

Smith...not so much.

 

Weaver fought to survive and Bonecrusher won an easy victory.

Right, he was less motivated fighting for the heavyweight title in MSG than most of his other fights .. Project what you what but in seventy fights Witherspoon was never stopped by anyone like he lost to Bonecrusher ..

That he could come from behind to win and that he lad late round KO power .. two points hard to prove w the old Foreman.

Sloppy, dumb attempt at a point by you ..

My post wasn't directed to you but it may as well have been .. try reading and not spewing ..

 

Talking about a low ring IQ who was the dope that was roped and then fought Jimmy Young in Puerto Rico's heat ?

 

Smith wouldn't land a punch on either.

 

Sugar Smith is going to use Ali and Young's tactics to win? Now I've read everything.

 

He isn't going to be doing any come from behind KOing because he would get stopped way before the late rounds.

The fact he couldn't stop Weaver in a rematch shows how limited he was. There is a difference between having power and being a good puncher who can make adjustments.

Smith himself said Witherspoon wasn't motivated.

I read everything you wrote and it didn't require much thinking to debunk.Thanks for playing.

 

If Smith uses the same grab and hold tactic as he did vs Tyson, I see him going the distance.
Hell, he even has a chance of winning this, if Foreman gasses out.