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In the interview Gene said he hit harder.
It seemed he was delaying the inevitable. It's just hard watching him voluntarily back up. IMO he would be better off coming out smoking. OTOH...
He fought on the backfoot in their second fight. I thought it was unpleasant to watch. Would it be better against an Old George?
Fine, he's entitled to his opinion, but in the same interview he said Foreman would knock him out in two rounds. If he was so wrong how much...
The irony is Post Exile Ali was worse while his opponents for the most past were better. All these attributes he supposedly acquired in his Post...
I don't know either but Old George with his cross armed defense is a completely different opponent.
The argument is he was an infinitely smarter fighter with the emphasis on infinitely and that more than compensation for his slower reflexes and...
The Foreman of the Holyfield fight versus the Frazier he actually fought in Kingston.
Reminds me of Foreman-Frazier ll. Sure he lasted longer but imo he looked worse fighting in a style which was completely alien to him. Foreman 2...
Human evolution doesn't evolve in the course of a generation. There is such a thing as reversion to the mean. That's why we're not ten feet tall.
Who wins?
So Holyfield Foreman is a mythical version of himself like Tokyo Douglas, FOTC Frazier, and Kinshasha Ali?
We're not discussing the evolution of the sport as much as the evolution of human beings. A forty year old does not have the same reflexes,...
Much closer fight
