What heavyweight fight would you have liked to have seen the most?

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  1. praetorianJJ

    praetorianJJ Conqueror of Worlds Full Member

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    1. Bowe vs Tyson
    2. Bowe vs Lewis (in the pros)
     
  2. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    Tyson-Bowe
    Tyson-Foreman
    Holmes-Foreman
    Ali-Baer
    Louis-Liston
    Dempsey-Johnson
    Dempsey-Wills
    Johnson-Tunney
    Frazier-Marciano
    Holyfield-Norton
    Bowe-Lewis
     
  3. MAG1965

    MAG1965 Loyal Member banned

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    Tyson vs. Foreman in 1992. I knew the style of George would be too much for Mike, although Mike is the greater fighter.
     
  4. Robbi

    Robbi Marvelous Full Member

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    Interesting fight. I think Larry decisions him.
     
  5. piscator

    piscator Member Full Member

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    Actual fight: Rumble in the Jungle

    Match that could have but didn't happen: Wlad vs. Lewis, or Vitali vs Lewis rematch

    Time Machine fights: Vitali vs. Foreman, Wlad vs. Ali, or vice versa.

    Wouldn't those fights, and perhaps a few others like them, settle the question, once and for all, how the Klits really stack up? I mean against the ATG's?
     
  6. Kalasinn

    Kalasinn ♧ OG Kally ♤ Full Member

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    Watch Foreman-Stewart again. Old George took more horrible damage than he did against Moorer, his face was battered like it had been pounded by a meat tenderising hammer. Alex brought a brutal slugfest war to Old Foreman & only lost by a hair, because his weak chin & balls let him down twice in round 2. Tyson had a concrete chin & balls of steel, watch Tyson-Ruddock II. :!:

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  7. Robbi

    Robbi Marvelous Full Member

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    Tyson had a very good chin. Concrete chins belong to fighters like Hagler and McCullough.

    One thing Tyson never had-balls of steel.
     
  8. Kalasinn

    Kalasinn ♧ OG Kally ♤ Full Member

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    When did Hagler ever take a sustained beating? His chin was superhuman & amazing no doubt, but nobody even battered him accross the ring for sustained periods. Douglas, Holyfield & Lewis had to smash everything & the kitchen sink over an exhausted Tyson for round after round before they could stop him. Tyson also absorbed a tonne of monstrous bombs for 19 rounds of slugfest war from the heavy hitting Ruddock (of course he was supremely conditioned there so he didn't get gassed). His chin was never the problem.

    Ok so you question the heart of Tyson? That's a different argument for a different place & it would proably be life talking to a brick wall, like everytime i write out a huge piece & the the blind do not see. Maybe you should realise i was talking about the way he ate monstrous lowblows in a brutal slugfest war like skittles against a big powerful puncher in Ruddock, whereas Stewart was ****ed by one from Old Foreman. It was a joke about how it wasn't just the chin of Stewart which let him down, it was his bollocks toughness too. Anyway, both Stewart & Savarese looked durable against Old George when they both gave him slugfest wars, check out how them two did against Tyson. :good
     
  9. Robbi

    Robbi Marvelous Full Member

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    So, based on those two fights.....Tyson hit harder than Foreman?

    :lol:
     
  10. Kalasinn

    Kalasinn ♧ OG Kally ♤ Full Member

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    No not just those 2 fights, but those 2 show a lot more than you think, since Tyson blasted them both out in a round like they were nothing, whereas Old George traded flush bombs back & forth with them for long wars.

    I mean (non-shot) Tyson hit harder than Old Foreman, this is what i conclude from the extensive footage we have of both. :deal

    Old Foreman was stronger than his younger self, but he was obviously less powerful per punch & often punched so very slow that his opponents had plenty of time to brace themselves for impact.
     
  11. frankenfrank

    frankenfrank Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    For my own interest : Vitali Klitschko vs. George Foreman , better if a 3-5 fights series to decide my #1.
    For the arseheads in this forum it will be either David Tua vs. Sonny Liston , David Tua vs. Joe Louis , Wladimir Klitschko vs Muhammad Ali and George Foreman vs Ali in MSG in the winter .
     
  12. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Wish I'd been in Zaire for the Rumble. Not the most thrilling fight,technically,ut history was in the making.
     
  13. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Quite a few ...

    Jeffries - Corbett 1 (Wish film existed)
    Dempsey - Wills
    Dempsey - Johnson
    Johnson - Langford 2
    Dempsey - Louis
    Dempsey - Marciano
    Louis - Johnson
    Fitz - Dempsey
    Fitz - Marciano
    Liston - Foreman
    Liston - Holyfield
     
  14. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Ali-Louis (no surprise)
    Ali-Tyson
    Liston-Foreman
    Frazier-Marciano
     
  15. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    So do I. Holmes was just as big as Foreman and it's debatable if he could do more damage than Ali did in Zaire.

    My list has some fantasy fights as well as fights that didn't come off. I apologize for having more than one fight on the list. I couldn't help it. :yep