George Foreman was never 6'3" in his whole life. He was 6'2 1/2"!
Holy had to lift weights to get up to 209; Liston weighed that naturally. In fact, Liston probably had to cut weight.
Your pretty much just described Muhammad Ali.
Foreman said he had Williams as a sparring partner at some point during his (Foreman's) career. George said Williams could really bang.
Foreman's lack of speed would hurt him against a guy like this. Sanders was not a plodding, straight-ahead type of fighter (the kinds of guys...
No way Foreman would have agreed to fight a guy like Sanders -- too risky!
Bowe's wins against Herbie Hide, Larry Donald, and Buster Mathis Jr. are underrated, in my opinion. Granted, those guys were not elite-level...
Samuel Peters is 6'0 1/2", so he isn't particularly tall for a heavyweight. He is big and strong, but not a tall heavyweight. Corrie Sanders was a...
I still don't get why many see that Gerry ****ey fight as some big achievement for George. IF that were the 1982 ****ey who fought Holmes, then...
Thanks for pointing that out -- I guess.
George retired for 10 years; what he did in his first career should have had no bearing on what he did in career two. He started from scratch...
The problem was that George feasted on too many of those 'tune-up' types of fights and didn't fight enough (or any??) good, solid fighters on the...
George looked too stiff and mechanical against Holyfield. I actually think George looked more fluid and just better later in his comeback against...
I don't know about how much George was declining. To me, Foreman looked almost as good against Savarese and Briggs as he had ever looked in his...
Not really. You could say Ron Lyle was small compared to old-school fighters like Buddy Baer and Primo Carnera, too. Those guys were back in the...
