Could Peak George Foreman have beat all Tyson challengers

He could beat all of Prime Tyson's challengers in one night. If you're counting Holyfield and Lewis, then that's a different story.

 

Then Foreman, but Lennox has a chance.

 

peak Foreman can... like peak Tyson! So if he magically just maintained that prime, no aging, not losing focus, not skipping basics instead of relying on power. But the triuth is...at some point you are just 90-95% prepaired. So you will lose 1-2 fights throughout a long career versus fighters that are superior prepaired or stylistically nightmare like Norton-Ali. That happen. Unless you are Rocky Marciano^^ Or you only do 3 fights in 4 years like the "champions" of today.

 

I can't see any of Tyson's opponents lasting long TBH, maybe if it was the Pinklon Thomas of 84 vs Foreman it might of been good fight. As Thomas had an iron chin and a fantastic jab. Maybe Tony Tucker could last some rounds, as he can fight quite passive and is a big tall Heavyweight with a good chin. And finally obviously Tokyo Douglas would of been interesting, but the advantages Douglas had over the smaller Tyson he wouldn't have vs Foreman, also Douglas wouldn't be able to push off a tank like Foreman like he did to Tyson.

 

No

 

I think Tucker without hand injury has a shot to take Foreman into the later rounds and stop him if Tucker can get out of the early rounds which I think he may be able to. Berbick, Stewart, Tillman, Thomas, spinks, Biggs, Williams, Bruno, Bonecrusher, Seldon, Golota, Norris, Botha, Mathis are all stopped by Foreman. Ruddock is stopped too but Jesus that could be a war while it lasts, I pause on Tubbs because I wonder if he's not going to be a stylistic problem for Foreman.

Holyfield and Lewis obviously have the best chance here besides Tucker.

Tokyo Douglas I'd have to favor Foreman, but he's a wild card especially the longer the fight goes.

 

Easily.. except for Holyfield.

 

Foreman is overrated af. He was slow and not that skilled.

 

Holyfield and Lewis (without the weird hypothetical of an end of his career Lewis) put a stop to whatever winning streak has been going. I saw nothing remotely good enough in Foreman's actual performance against Holyfield to think a younger, more aggressive, less durable, stamina limited, lower ring-IQ Foreman would do any better.

And Lewis is bigger, likely similar in strength, more skilled, quicker, and is in the same power class. I don't see how that one can go Foreman's way either.

 

Foreman had he not been retired would’ve been in the mix with the Berbicks, Weavers and Pinkltons. Just another name in the bubbling pot and he’d have picked up a bunch of mixed results.

 

LOL, he never got by a old Ali who both Frazier and Norton gave hell.........barely survived crude slugger Lyle who in his absolute prime lost to journeymen and was clowned by feastherfist Young.............could not stop cannonfodder Stewart/Saversese/Morrison/Schulz in his comeback, but is going to wax all of Tysons opponents.................legalizing Pot in your state really had a detrimental effect on your clear thinking.

 

So who do you think Foreman loses to out of Tyson's opponents?

 

The important thing with a thread like this, is to look for the metric that the fighter being substituted in didn't match.

Now Foreman blows Tyson out of the water on longevity, and has the better wins of the two men.

However if you look at the number of quality wins that Tyson amassed in his early career, in a very short period of time, there is nothing in Foreman's resume to suggest that he could match that.

I don't think that we should take it for granted, that Foreman would be able to do the same.