Lennox Lewis vs George Foreman FULL FIGHT WRITE UP

I would guess that OO must have achieved legendary status to the Foreman worshipers? He beat the man twice who beat the hero of the forum. He only had about 10 fights and he was already beating JY, I guess Ossie was a prodigy? Maybe that's why Real Life GF avoided Larry Holmes even when LH was old. Seeing LH drop Ossie with a jab must have been psychologically devastating to GF. After all OO beat JY twice, and as you mentioned OO was still a novice when he did that.

Now, Fantasy George Foreman would be a different story. FGF was willing to fight anybody and everybody. If LH really wanted the fight with RLGF, all he would have had to do is become a drug addict, or a drunk, quit training and arrange for the GF Team to find out, LH would have instantly qualified as a GF opponent.

 

I think that a lot of people don't understand the difference between throwing a lot of punches and throwing combinations.

 

Who did he cut the ring off successfully? Ken Norton?

 

Ray Leonard - Aaron Pryor?

 

I would give Foreman a good puncher’s chance. But Lennox for all practical purposes would be better positioned to land earlier, more often and with enough power to finish the job.

 

Muhammad Ali walked him into the ropes and beat him silly. I also said “successfully” getting KO’d in 7 rounds isn’t my personal definition.

 

I "enjoy" these forum quotes from some boxer's biography, obviously written by someone else. Ali, a guy who was in his 30s and who had been boxing since he was 12 years old supposedly gushing over a guy knowing how to cut off a ring? Cutting off the ring is not rocket science and any high level boxer should know the principles. Anybody who is circling the ring is going to have to make more steps and work harder than the guy who is "cutting off" the ring. GF and Archie Moore did not invent cutting the ring. And, it is doubtful that this fight was the first time that Ali realized that he had to take more steps than the guy cutting the ring. He might have decided that the ring was too soft or too small for him to move in a circle, but...

It would be my guess that Ali went to the ropes once, found out that GF didn't know how to fight inside and found that he could pick GF apart from that distance. It worked. Ali blocked, rolled with, or otherwise stopped most of what GF was throwing and one look at Ali's face in the post fight interview proves that he didn't have any damage. Ali said right after the fight with GF, something similar to "I told you he couldn't punch" and Ali didn't have a mark on him. I'll take that over what some ghost writer wrote who was trying to sell books.

Do you really think that GF would walk through Lewis's punches as he pursued him around the ring? Jimmy Young, stunned GF and stopped his advances. Do you think that Lewis couldn't? GF didn't have the stamina to pursue and Lewis wouldn't have to run, he'd be the bigger, faster, better boxer in the ring. The smaller, wide swinging, slower GF would quickly discover that a bigger, faster man throwing straight punches is not like anything he had experienced before.

 

Great post.

 

Pat put your belt back on before your pants fall down, he’s had enough.

 

Foreman had problems with movers and was simultaneously phenomenal at cutting off the ring?