How Would A Young Foreman Have Done In The 1990s?

Foreman would absolutely Tua Moorer LOL thanks for clarifying Ol Ferg.

 

I think he would have dominated this era. He wasn't like Wladimir Klitschko who was always in shape but a guy who had been out of boxing for 10 years, that he was quite overweight that he never got rid of and yet he was a top 10 fighter in the 90s and a threat to everyone. Cannon Briggs, considered a talent of the 90s, said after the fight with the 50 year old George that he felt like he was in a death cage with him. Is it like fighting George half his age? Let's say Foreman starts his career exactly as he did but not in 1968 but in 1987. And he goes exactly the same way that he went all the way to Holyfield. Evander weighed less than Norton. The fight with Bowe would be fun and Foreman could lose it but after that I don't see anyone who could stop him if he stays focused. Maybe Vitali Klitschko in 2003. Of course I don't believe he would have maintained his concentration the whole time and surely someone would have caught him on a bad day. Maybe it would have been Holmes in 1992, maybe Tyson in 1996, maybe Lewis in 1997, maybe even Moorer in 1994 but I wouldn't see any of them as favorites. Contrary to appearances, the 90s weren't as great as people think.

 

Everyone is chinny when Foreman is in the ring with them.

 

Foreman would be okay as long as he avoids Bert Cooper. Coop had Holyfield out on his feet. He made Ray Mercer almost pretty. Stay away from Joe's nephew.

 

Bert didn't fare so well vs old George tho.

 

Yea that was a rough nite for Bert.

 

Yeah Bert was such an up and down fighter, given his problems. He could sure as hell bang.

 

I laugh when i think about Foreman/Cooper. When they asked Bert why he quit he said he didnt want to get brain damage from Foreman's punches. Thats power when you can get Bert to make an intelligent decision.

 

I can't add much to that!!!!!! hahaha

 

He didn't even win a 12 round decision until the Schultz robbery. He wasn't built for the 90s fighters who would make him go rounds.

 

Apparently we've been green lighted for Tyson in 91, 91 Tyson was still Mike Tyson so there is a fair chance he improves on Sugar Ron Lyle... I watched Frazier 2 and how much his movement troubled him, how much Lyle was hurting GF and I wonder how can it go any other way? It's an oversimplified breakdown but really GF's whole game was push forward, jab his way in range and club them with long uppercuts and hooks and try to maintain that, by pushing, parrying and using stops if they got inside before resuming the program.

Tyson would get under those hooks so fast and give George whiplash with a left hook. Tyson is just a very dynamic fighter, pushing really only serves MT here he wants to reset to counter on the way in anyway, it'd be hell. So after Holyfield (A loss forumites tells us he won't do well with) he will probably get run over by Mike Tyson due to divine intervention insuring this bout happens because it's Fergs thread and he said so and then he can rebuild... Coetzer is a good pick for his management but what direction would he take? he's got 9 years of fighting left and the 2 most profitable fighters just probably beat him.

Assuming a soft touch win he fights Ruddock who is trying to come back after back to back losses with Tyson how do you see that bout going? seems like it'd be a Ron Lyle type fight, decent odds on either man but I'd give the nod to Foreman, Ruddock was a low output sort of boxer who just waddled around with his weight on the front foot trying to throw "The Smash" I think GF overwhelms him with that kamikaze caveman style.

 

Research shows you can't win decisions if you always stop your opponent. Something you should know as a Wilder defender.

At the end of his first career he was 0-1 with a close loss to Jimmy Young. Foremans strategy in the 90s at least against top opponents was to tire his opponents out and if there had been 15 rounders he'd have clearly benefitted from this not the other way around.

 

You've already DQ'd yourself from this thread with that wild ass post on the previous page that nobody even wants to respond to. Sorry, bud.

 

Like I know everyone says "Oh but Rahman" fluke's withstanding but does anyone actually have a real plan for Foreman other then just run out and blitzkrieg Lennox? like that's not reliable, that's at best decent odds. I know he's better then Briggs but Briggs realised his chin was made of tougher stuff then we were lead to believe and got absolutely drummed by LL in retaliation lol if you took out the option to Satterfield I think we'd all agree it's more likely for LL to box him up and get a KO with the long range weapons.