Victor Galindez vs Bob Foster

Foster.

Might not be an easy night, but Galindez too often let himself be kept at the end of a jab while looking for his looping counters.Foster would pile up the points and the threat of his power would likely keep Victor honest enough not to go all out with the sudden charges he liked to try.

Galindez was a very hard puncher himself, so Foster isn't likely to try and walk through him.I'll say Bob wins a competitive 10-5/11-4 sort of decision with Galindez going the distance and having his moments more often than not.

 

Foster by UD in 15, or late round stoppage due to cuts.

 

Victor's peculiar brand of counter brawling guerrilla warfare would not work with Bob, who would safely pick his way to a decision if Galindez tried setting up shop from against the ropes. Otherwise, the vicious one goes after him, then Foster's more likely to carve Vic up. It took more than a steel chin to beat Robert at this weight. Galindez would not be able to keep this on the inside, where he needed it to be in order to have a chance.

 

I tend to agree, but does anyone think that Galindez might be able to push things a little bit further than Finnegan did?

 

Foster of '70 at 175 beat's the **** outta the rugged but somewhat limited Galindez of '77............ Foster's offense is too much for Galindez to take..........

MR.BILL:deal

 

Who the hell is going to match up the washed up Victor against Foster.Bill is definitely back on the meth.

 

WTF? Galindez was washed-up in '77???? That could've fooled me........ Tell that to Eddie M. Muhammad and a few others............
:scaredas:

MR.BILL

 

Foster might win, but 'limited' is a word I wouldn't really use to describe Galindez. And why the Galindez of '77?

 

Why not '77???? Galindez was doing well during that zone........ Plus, he was only age 29.............. Christ, by '70, Ol' Foster was going on 34 and about to get bounced by Frazier... But Foster still had plenty left at 175 pounds...........

Galindez had decent technique, but he was of average height and speed at 175.......

I see the 6' 3" Foster practically landed at will over Galindez........ I see Galindez, who was a good counter-puncher, being ineffective with counters against Foster........ Foster scores the TKO by round 13..........

MR.BILL:hat

 

Well, if Bob could draw blood on Ali, I'm not sure Galindez makes it out of there without needing a blood transfusion. Sure, he could otherwise push things further than Finnegan, but those damned eyes of his concern me greatly. Foster is in an entirely different orbit than Kates and Rossman.

 

Aye. I just prefer to try and leave cuts out of it in these fantasy match-ups. They take the fun out of it even if they're a relevant factor. I'm guilty of the same thing with Napoles .......

Incidentally, I always thought Kates looked like a damn fine operator at his best. Based on the bits I've seen. He wasn't Foster,, but still.....

But yeah, Bob probably has a good chance of dicing Victor's clock at some point.

 

I agree. Also, in many exchanges, i see Foster getting the better, he's just so hard to make back down. And as you say, at distance, Galindez won't be active enough against Foster.

Galindez is one of my favourite light heavies of all time but i can;t see a win for him at all here.

 

I agree for the most part with Duodenum and Teeto in that a match between peak versions of both Bob Foster and Victor Galindez would have most likely have ended in a tko victory for Foster...and not a tko in the usual sense that was common in Foster's 175 lb. reign of terror.
This fight had the potential of being tougher by far than all of Foster's defenses..with the compact ball of muscle that Galindez was indeed setting up shop on the ropes and successfully fielding Foster's otherwise deadly artillery as few other lightheavies of history would have been able to do..obviously I'm not talking about the "shot" version of Galindez who's chin gave up on him vs Johnson and Burnett near the end of his career. The danger for Foster would be the sudden explosion of left and right counters, all in the form of hooks and crosses from the Argentinian bull..and he could very well have surprised and decked Foster with such a shot, as he did Eddie Gregory in their fight, but amazingly, I don't think he would have decked the cagey and tough peak Galindez. But I agree that Victor's fatal achilles heel..his principle weakness as a fighter was that tender flesh around his eyes...covering up on the ropes..his "come hither", counterpunching style, somewhat of a cross between what a young Jerry Quarry used to do so well, and a type of rope-a-dope, wouldn't be successful with Foster..who would lacerate Victor's eye's..it would have been an epic bloodbath, but exciting and intriguing one, in my opinion, Galindez, in desperation, could have reverted to the more primitive style and offense that he used to club down Len Hutchins, which would have presented some dangerous moments for Foster, but would ultimately have been to no avail. Galindez was probably a more dangerous and certainly a stronger man than Foster ever actually defended against, but it would have gone into the books as: Foster tko 13 Galindez, with Foster having for the most part, with effective use of his jab and power punches and outboxing Victor in general, a commanding lead on points before the stoppage...

 

The tendency to cut with certain great fighters does indeed screw things up..I agree with that.