Prime George Foreman vs Zhang

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Who wins and how

  1. Zhang stoppage

    12 vote(s)
    16.4%

  2. Foreman stoppage

    61 vote(s)
    83.6%

  3. Zhang Decision

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  4. Foreman Decision

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  5. Draw

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
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  1. BCS8

    BCS8 VIP Member

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    Valuev is such an outlier that he's sometimes hard to match up accurately. I can certainly see Foreman gas out trying to get Valuev out of there and then getting stopped. On the other hand if GF boxes with some degree of sense he ought to be smart and fast enough to outbox Valuev. Maybe I'm asking too much idk.
     
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  2. Man_Machine

    Man_Machine Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Imagining Zhang featuring in The Ring Fight of the Year is an even bigger laugh.
     
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  3. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Foreman was kind of like a heavyweight Gatti, minus the style and gas tank, if that’s what you’re getting at.
     
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  4. Man_Machine

    Man_Machine Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Nah - more getting at Zhang being kind of like a **** version of Ortiz with half the workrate.
     
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  5. Ney

    Ney Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Even Spanian would be embarrassed to rub his two brain cells together, get a spark going, & come up with that comparison.
     
    Ney, Jun 12, 2024
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  6. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    These HWs, Zhang, Dubois, even Wilder and even Fury and whoever else, are bad, I rarely say this about any fighter but these guys being talked as something else in the classic forum is sign of times where boxing is really in bad shape as far as its pool of talent out there, the pool of talent is very small these days.
     
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  7. ikrasevic

    ikrasevic Who is ready to suffer for Christ (the truth)? Full Member

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    How tested Zhang's chin really was; or Hrgović was the biggest test?
     
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  8. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    He’s shared a ring with Cammarelle, Dychko, Parker, Hrgovic, Joyce, and Wilder.

    He’s not the type to get dropped by Jimmy Young.
     
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  9. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He not the type to win rounds against Jimmy Young either.
     
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  10. Turnip mk3

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    Foreman by brutal early KO .
     
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    Totentanz. Gator Wrestler Extraordinaire banned Full Member

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    If this poll was young Foreman against old Foreman, this wouldn't be so contentious to so many of you.
    But because it's Zhang, the old guy automatically wins.
    Zhang has fast hands, hard angles for Foreman, strong hands, and a strong chin, but simply because he's the new guy, he'd get plastered.
    This fight would be much closer than you may think.
     
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  12. Kid Bacon

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    Furthermore Foreman and Zhang develop together a revolutionary Grill-Wok hybrid and become billionaires...
     
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  13. NoNeck

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    Eighteen loses Jimmy Young?
     
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  14. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

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    Great fight. Zhang might be the better technical boxer and is certainly capable of timing George when he rushes in given his accuracy, but Foreman isn’t Wilder either. He’s a better boxer than Wilder in every way, and will open up much more than he did.

    I’d still lean more towards Zhang, I think he can probably take George’s bombs more than George can take his.
     
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  15. HistoryZero26

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    Only got stopped twice his whole career by Shavers and Cooney Jimmy Young?
     
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