Send in your heavyweight slugger to KO George Foreman

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  1. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

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    What would your definition of a slugger be here?
     
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  2. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    No one can survive fighting close range with Foreman, not even Liston or Tyson.
    If you can box, you can win but don't ever try going toe to toe against him.
     
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  3. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    I’d give the Bronze a chance personally
     
  4. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Beating Foreman is possibe via decision. A slugger KO'ing him is not. Ali who is not a slugger is the only one to KO him and I consider that to be a fluke.
     
  5. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    If you consider Louis a slugger, yeah.

    FOTC Frazier, the hellishly-inspired-by-hate Frazier, stops him.

    Liston, but a lot of that would have to do with the fact of Liston's lesser-heralded, superior boxing ability as much as the fact that George was intimidated by him.
     
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  6. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Maybe Lennox , maybe.
     
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  7. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    Not if you send in prime Wilder or Zhang
     
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  8. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    Wilder?
     
  9. SwarmingSlugger

    SwarmingSlugger Active Member Full Member

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    Tyson, Louis and Dempsey have a good shot at prime Foreman. Liston? Maybe.

    Old Foreman- Tyson, Louis, Dempsey, Marciano, and probably Liston but Sonny is such an odd duck hard to say. Lennox prob over an old Foreman but in his prime George crushes Lennox like a bug.
     
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  10. Totentanz.

    Totentanz. Gator Wrestler Extraordinaire banned Full Member

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    I personally don't see this version of Foreman staying down against those guys, even if he went down.
    Old Foreman could take it from the best.
     
  11. ikrasevic

    ikrasevic Our pope is the Holy Spirit Full Member

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    Liston but I am not so sure.
     
  12. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    Yep. The Bronze
     
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  13. SonnyListon>

    SonnyListon> #1 Sonny Liston fan Full Member

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    Dempsey? I don’t think so… he’d get in Foremans face only to be met with a sledgehammer pounding him.
     
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  14. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Delusional BUT Determined Full Member

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    Mike Tyson would do it quicker than people would want to hear.
     
  15. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Delusional BUT Determined Full Member

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    I don’t know how you define toe to toe but up close? every corner man he ever had would tell him to not charge at Joe Louis if he had the misfortune of fighting him - Louis would kill “Young” Foreman and hurt him badly constantly till the stoppage.
     
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