Since its still senior week, lets go for another round. Names 90s Foreman fought in chronological order: Dwight Qawi This content is protected Bert Cooper This content is protected Gerry Cooney This content is protected Adilson Rodriques This content is protected Evander Holyfield This content is protected Alex Stewart This content is protected Pierre Coetzer This content is protected Tommy Morrison This content is protected Michael Moorer This content is protected Alex Schulz This content is protected Crawford Grimsley This content is protected Lou Savarese This content is protected Shannon Briigs This content is protected If 70s Foreman fought these same fighters (as they were in the 90s) from 69 to 74, what do you think how would he do? Copy that list with results for 70s George would be nice!
Destroys all. Except Holyfield. Holyfield likely still beats him. Is this prime Cooney? Prime Cooney gives a good account of himself 4 a few rounds before being taken out. Everyone else is just plain destroyed in a couple of rounds. Of the 90s fighters that 70s George wouldn't have knocked out, none of them are here, save 4 Holy. Guys like Mercer and McCall are the ones I'm confident George couldn't knock out.
I do not see George losing to any of these including Holyfield. A younger Foreman uses his excellent and underrated skill of cutting the ring off and corners Evander and gets him into exchanges. Foreman by KO in 5
Qawi-RTD 5; Qawi was extremely hard 2 hit Cooper-TKO 2 Cooney-KO 1 Rodrigues-TKO 2 Holyfield-L by MD 12 Stewart-TKO 1 Coetzer-TKO 3 Morrison-KO 4 Moorer-TKO 3 Schulz-TKO 3 Grimsley-KO 1 Savarese-TKO 3 Briggs-TKO 2
Beats them all with a chance someone pulls a Morrison and manages to survive. Holyfield would have been knocked out by round four if old George let himself go all out. Instead he reserved his energy and he paid for it. Young George wouldn’t have let him off the hook.
Not that, but I think he´s not going longer than some others on your list. Imho Holyfield (50/50), Coetzer, Schulz and Briggs go longest.
I think Foreman does have a chance w/ Holy, but I don't have it even. Also, I do think my Briggs prediction was a bit hasty. Schulz was elusive, but I think he doesn't make it far. Coetzer was tough enought 2 last a while, but I could see George slicing him up early and getting a stoppage on that.
On that chronological order, Holyfield comes a little early. Bu also at their prime, thats hard to assess. In a case like that I´d normally go with the better defensive fighter, more gas tank too. But then watch how he massacred Norton and Frazier.....
