Bob Foster V Early 30 's Heavy s ?

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  1. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    He had no luck stepping up in the 70 s but how.does Foster do against the early 30 s Guy's ?
    Foster verse's
    Schmeling ?
    Sharkey,? carnera?
    Uzcudun ?
    Loughran?
    Baer?
     
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    Big Ukrainian Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I don't think he does well at HW. But I think he can beat Schmeling and Loughran at LHW (Max was LHW in his early 20s).
     
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    Longhhorn71 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Don't leave "Slapsie Maxie" off the Opponent List.

    That fight might be a "Circus'.
     
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    That's the thing with Foster , a great lght heavy but he just couldn't bring that power up with him .But he did come up in to a solid,hard era .Facing Guy's like Ali and Frazier was hard enough for natural heavy s .In the 30 's?.Maybe slightly better luck against the heavy s then .If he caught Sharkey on his unpredictable days perhaps a win. Baer I believe would ko him some point .Schmeling v Foster could be interesting ,but ultimately Max wins.
    Loughran against Bob at heavy , Foster by points .Not sure if carnera stops him but big guy gets a decision in a tepid fight .
    Loughran and Max S against Foster at light heavy ?
    I'll go with Bob both times .
     
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    I see Foster losing to Schmeling, Baer, and maybe Sharkey at heavy. He may just lose out to Carnera and just about beat Uzcudun. Really difficult query.
     
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    A circus it may very well be longhorn, sure Maxie would try his best to entertain .A wide point s loss im afraid Will be his reward IMO .
     
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    The problem is that he want just losing to the great heavyweights in the 70s, he was losing to the pretty good ones as well.

    I think that he just wasn't cut out for the heavyweight division, and that we would have seen this in the 30s as well.
     
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    Not very well,imo.
    Both Max's likely stop him,he might decision Uzcudun and Sharkey ,but the odds would be on them imo.Loughran and Foster would possibly be a toss up. Carnera could probably lean all over Bob and drain him of his strength.
     
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    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    That's how I see a Foster carnera match going to. Primo just to big and heavy for Bob to do anything at all .
     
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    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    I read somewhere that Max was worse at LHW because he was losing too much weight in order to make weight. He started doing better when he moved up to heavy.
     
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    He would probably lose to all of them, he might have a chance with Loughran.
     
  12. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    That's true. Some LHW's can do relatively well moving up while others can't. I personally think that Michael Spinks would've done better in an earlier era where the HW's were around 185 lbs, especially if Spinks bulked up to 200+ lbs. Foster moved up in an era where the HW's were 185 lbs.