Conteh vs Foster

I think there is a chance that Foster would get to Conteh early...but if Conteh were to make it past 8/9 rounds his chances would go up.
Foster by 5th/6th round stoppage fro me.

 

Conteh, he fought tougher guys, and was like an animal. He could lay back and box, then pounce, and was strong, something that gave foster trouble. It would be great match. Foster had good punch, but Conteh had good chin. I wonder a bit about Foster's chin.

 

Conteh, much as I love him, didn't really prove enough to merit being favored in a matchup with a guy like Foster, in my opinion. Who knows what strategy he'd even apply against someone like Foster? I'd love to have seen Conteh vs someone like Galindez, personally.

 

I don't know. Conteh showed his grit against Ahumada in their war, but Galindez was a higher level of fighter (albeit not by a huge margin) of the same ilk. In fact he beat Ahumada multiple times in the two's days in Argentina. I'm not sure about that one. I think he'd fare better boxing behind the jab for the most part rather than going to war. He'd have to fight a very disciplined fight to get the win, and he was never adverse to a good ol' fashioned gun-slinging type fight if he felt the need. Galindez had a fierce second gear. It's difficult to know how Conteh would fare against it.

 

It would be interesting to see some of those early Galindez Amuhada fights(or indeed against peralta, Aguilar etc as well), i can imagine they were great local rivalry.

Overall Galindez certainly seemed to have his number at that stage, but the book on Ahumada at the time was he improved a lot technically after coming to America, whether that is true or not i'm unsure, but Foster and Conteh probably fought him at his very best.He didn't look the same fighter against Galindez in his challenge; looked like the effort against Conteh took a fair bit out of him.He did have quite a bit of success in that fight nonetheless, but it looked to me to be because Galindez was coasting after hurting him early and building a nice lead...not one of Victor's better(or more intense) performances.The ahumada that fought Foster and conteh, against Galindez would have been a potentially great showdown .

I tend to think beating Ahumada 3 years into his career was the fight that kicked off his prime, if he had fought Galindez that night he would have lost a close decision imo, as long as Victor was in his usual early title-reign active, aggressive mode anyway.You could see the Argentinian box-fighting style really wreaked Havoc with conteh's boxing rhythm, and forced him to show versatility and grit to overcome it, but Galindez was a bit too forceful and assured a practitioner to be overcome without a gameplan and with talent alone.

'75 was the best time for a fight between the two to have happened, Conteh prime, two-handed and more experienced against a variety of styles, against Galindez before he started to go too far into spurt fighting counterpuncher mode; worn down bya number of consecutive hard fifteen round fights against the best opposition of any post-60s lightheavy.

And that's really why i don't tend to think of matches between him and light-heavy greats. outwith his own contemporaries.The experience and steady progression once starting to fight consistent world class fighters isn't there to the extent he should be given the benefit of the doubt beyond dangerous dark horse status.Eddie Mustapha muhammed is the same, but for different reasons.Both wasted talents, but still excellent light-heavies who you shouldn't be picking Tarver over.

 

My God, I would love to see this fight - what an absolute treat to watch! The state of the Classic forum after their trumped-up poster boy gets completely humiliated, exposed, schooled and outclassed by Conteh would be a sight to see. Foster's face-first, hunch-backed technical ineptitude would get shown up by the vastly more skilled fighter in almost every respect. Every loopy jab would slip and slide past Conteh's head and be met with fierce direct counters through Foster's defence which ranged from porous to non-existent, and none of those wild power shots from the Ricardo Mayorga school of punching would get within a mile of landing. With no success, Foster would shell up and stop throwing by about the fourth or fifth when Conteh would step up the gas and start sitting down on his shots, earning him a brutal stoppage around the halfway mark.

And no, Foster isn't a more proven fighter than Conteh in any sense. Conteh whooped the man who gave Foster massive fits and who was probably his best LH" opponent. Foster's quality of opposition was among the worst of any champion in history.

 

I'm going with Foster by 11th round kayo, coming from behind to take out Conteh.

 

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