I feel no one should doubt he'd be the best HW. He basically proved the biggest speculated weaknesses people thought he had in the 70s never existed. If Foreman was trying to drown prime Holyfield and Moorer in deep waters when he was in his 40s they'd have no shot when he was in his 20s and was going for quick knockouts. Lennox is not surviving Foreman. Bowe probably has the best chance but theres really no reason to think he'd beat Foreman. Jimmy Young narrowly outpointed Foreman and Jimmy Young was a defensive master who managed to avoid being knocked down by the skin of his teeth. The Ali win isn't really replicable but Ali is also super durable.
Just really putting him in there, as a young kid coming along, alongside Holyfield, Lewis , Bowe etc. Obviously there's no old guy knocking out Moorer in 94 lol Can t imagine Moorer lasting two mins with young George!
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.
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.
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.
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.