I might call Hrgovic El Radar. He appears to have that uncanny ability to know when a punch is coming even before it is launched. I mean, how else could he manage to perfectly position his head directly in the path of so many punches?
Good chin. But I remember when Joe Joyce was the flavor of the month, too. People had him ranked TOP-10 ALL TIME after he beat whoever it was two years ago. Spammed up the Classic Board with a modern day boxer. Like deja' vu all over again. I swear, it was probably the same people pumping up Hrgovic now. I'm not really sure if 90's Foreman is overrated or not. Wasn't there a top-10 heavyweights of the '90's type thread on here recently? But.. peak 90's Foreman (which was '91 not '94) > Joseph Joyce (what year was his peak?) all day Now there was a super-heavyweight for you, way back in 1991.
LMAO I don’t think I’ll ever stop being entertained by the quarrels on this site over classic vs modern boxing. OTP: Foreman, but Hrgovic makes a good account for himself.
Joyce had a phenomenal chin but he got hit way too easy. Same with Hrgovic. Would not surprise me if at some point it totally cracks. You can only ship so many bombs at heavyweight until lack of defense fails you. Foreman is better skilled than Hrgovic and the early 90s version of him I would favor, but the 70s version could realistically gas out. These guys today are bigger and if they got a good chin it would be kryptonite for a guy to try and knock them out early that’s giving up 25 pounds to them. If Lyle at 220 could go toe to toe so could Hrgovic. We have the evidence in the Joyce, Zhang, Itauma, and Dubios fights. All of those guys are big punchers and bigger than Foreman
Well, no. As I’ve said before, 70s Foreman might be considered as your classic under/over betting prospect, a perspective which really only came under more acute focus after Ali defeated him. Even very early in his career, against Peralta, Foreman gave evidence that he wasn’t going to exactly drop dead after 5 rounds or so and could in fact secure a stoppage as late as round 10. Again, very early in his career, Foreman’s singularly uncommon power, underscored by ram rod jab, dismantled iron chinned Chuvalo who was clearly going to be KO’d/stopped anyway but for the referee’s merciful intervention. Filip isn’t taking that same heat and lasting beyond 5 rounds. Another under win for Foreman.
If you don’t mind me asking, who do you think is the best current heavyweight today that a 1973-74 Foreman would beat in a majority?