Tyson Fury vs George Foreman - that time again?

Not if it's Foreman scoring the knock down. Fury might get up.. once..

 

Foreman by KO.

 

It's not only that he's had alot of mediocre performances against mediocre opposition.

Fury who was in his prime and in shape vs Wallin almost lost to him and that struggle vs Wallin has aged very poorly as Wallin got destroyed by Joshua and lost 12-0 to a 40 year old Chisora.

Fury got decked by Cunningham who had 1 stoppage in his 12 fights at Heavyweight who also has a low KO ratio at only 40 percent.

Fury has been decked what 9 or 10 times ? And half of them have come against unranked opposition.

I don't rate Fury as high as people do in this thread.

I'm not saying Fury hasn't got talent and he's a big man so he would still be a stylistic issue based on that.

But to put it into perspective since Fury won the title in 2015 in a decade he's only beat 2 top 10 ranked Heavyweights so he's not as proven as some people think.

People like to rubbish Holmes's reign but in a 7 year period he beat 5x times as many ranked contenders as Fury did in a decade.

 

Fury just isn't in the class of fighters like Foreman.

He's always going to be a problem because of his size, as well as his having above average ability - more than we've seen from the vast majority of super heavyweights in the past 20 years.

But there are levels and Foreman exists in a higher tier.

 

Boxing isn't an RPG

 

No he wasn't... ...no more than Schmeling was in Louis's class, or Zivic was in Armstrong's class, or Turpin was in Robinson's class, or Johansson was in Patterson's class, or Douglas was in Tyson's class, or Rahman was Lewis's class... ... ... ... ... ... ... You get the picture.


However, your OP does mention that one could use the versions of the fighters they’d like and we all know that your favorite version of Foreman is the one that lost to Jimmy Young.

 

Each of them got up from big punchers several times. Fury got up from Wilder’s best and Foreman got up from Lyle’s best. Each guy probably hits the canvas but George was a better overall boxer. I like Foreman by UD.

 

Second best version of Foreman is the one that lost to Briggs.

 

You aren't even trying at this point