Your Opinion Of George Foreman??

First Career. Extremely strong. Massive two handed power. Very good chin. Good jab, hook and uppercut. A bit musclebound. Often wild. Had and used a size advantage more than many for his day. Excelled style wise against Frazier and Norton but in my opinion one of the most overrated of the heavyweight champions. Dangerous but vulnerable when taken into deep water ..

Second Career. Much like the first but smarter, more patient, looser, knew how to pace himself mentally and physically. Still, in his second reincarnation, didn't fight many of the men who would have exposed him in that version of his career .. Lewis, Bowe, Tyson, Ruddock, Mercer come to mind ... in otherwords the big time, stronger punchers that could also take it .. to his credit performed admirably vs Holyfield , a great fighter and managed to take the shots of Morrison, a big puncher ...

 

Well you didn’t specify that your “some guy from Louisville” actually fought him.

I remember George making some references to his water bottle being poisoned or something in Zaire so I figured maybe teenage Greg Page might have been enlisted as a double agent to sneak into camp under the guise of looking for an autograph, or perhaps Jimmy Ellis put on a delivery uniform disguised as a Culligan man or something like that.

 

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One of the best heavyweights of all time.

 

1. Bottom of the top ten
2. The best he could’ve beaten is Bowe or Evander.
3. The Frazier win is huge. The Moorer win is overstated. Sort of a right place at the right time situation.

He has one first tier great win, and two borderline great wins, but it’s very overlooked how thin his resume is after that…pretty much just a life and death win against Lyle and a couple could’ve gone either way fights with Briggs and Stewart. The manner of the Young and Ali loses doesn’t help his case either, although the Holyfield fight gave him some redemption.