best performance in his comeback? Obviously his biggest achievement was beating Moorer for the title He was getting swept 9 rounds to zero before the knockout . So which fight did he look the best in his comeback?
Well it's a good question. George picked and choosed his opposition carefully in the Comeback. I would say Moorer. The Cooney fight he showed his power, but Cooney was coming off a layoff, Qawi was another big name, but also way too heavy and on the bottle, Cooper quit and never received his purse for testing positive for drugs, Coetzer was a ranked contender, I don't know how though, and lost to Bruno and Bowe. Stewart changed George's facial features, George showed heart chin, and durability. Savarese was a fringe contender at best, Schulz got robbed. I say take your pick?
He actually looked pretty damn good in his very last fight vs Briggs. The Cooney fight was good for George’s dramatic display of power - omg, Cooney dropped like a dead man after that walk up left hook. Stunning.
The fights he showed he had true fighting heart Going the distance with Holyfield. Having his face wrecked by Stewart Behind on points but winning against Moorer Even his last fight against Briggs.
https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/peak-of-foremans-second-career.702457/ The fight with Holyfield was answered by the majority on a similar topic that I asked. I have nothing to complain about. If I'm going to compare if Foreman (Holyfield fight) would beat Foreman from fights with: Cooney, Briggs, Moorer... I think "Holyfield" Foreman would beat the rest of the Foremans.
Indeed. He looked like he got paid to assassinate Cooney in broad daylight. The way he shuffled lackadaisically and then snapped that sudden brutal uppercut was both horrifying and beautiful at the same time.
I’d pick the Pierre Coetzer fight. The part time bodyguard for Nelson Mandela wasn’t his best opponent but it was interesting to see George Foreman fight someone as big as he was who could punch a bit. I like this fight because it would’ve been messy for George Foreman in the 70s but here he showed he could be a slow burn professional with a sober defence. He built a fight and stuck to his jab, curled up into his defence patiently, didn’t get excited and on the first knock down he actually hit Pierre by taking the right off the shoulder the way fighters like Toney do and countering inside Pierre’s left hook. He really learnt to box in the 80s-90s.
Yeah. I feel that KO changed the equation for Big George. Before his bout with Cooney, many considered Foreman's return some sort of publicity stunt, not to be taken too seriously. Even after beating Qawi and Cooper, Foreman was seen more like a curiosity than a legit contender. That brutal drive by KO showed that Big George meant bussiness.
I will go with him regaining the Lineal Heavyweight title by knocking out Michael Moorer as his best performance. As for the scorecards, they were 83-88, 83-88, 85-86. Suppose Michael Moorer gets up, with 57 seconds left in the round, and the Referee lets it go on. Moorer gets knocked down once more (not unlikely since in reality he was knocked out) but makes it to the bell. Now we have a 10-7 round for Foreman, The cards would then be 93-95. 93-95, and 95-93, with 2 rounds to go. Michael goes into survival mode (again, not unlikely), and George Foreman wins rounds 11 and 12, and even catches Michael in the 12th with another knockdown. So now it is 113-112, 113-112, and 115-110. Okay. That is a stretch.
Yeah, it was like an office man running to catch the 5:30 pm commuter train home and realizing when he is already at the exit door that he still needs to punch his time card, just slowing for a second to do so without stopping. Simply amazing.