Anthony Joshua vs early 90s Foreman

I remember this because I just watched Evander's documentary 30 for 30. Evander never felt that he had gotten the recognition he thought he deserved at that time. And in the docu it highlighted the fact that he went 12 rounds with an old fart, his stock went down not up as he had hoped. This was in the context of making a fight with Tyson.

 

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From 1968-1998 Foreman was only knocked out ONCE (by Ali) and that was due to heat and exhaustion.

His china is titanium.

 

Holyfield had a massive chip on his shoulder in the time frame between beating Douglas and losing to Bowe in their first fight, due to not getting any credit whatsoever from the boxing press. If you go back and listen to interviews of Evander from this time frame, you can tell that him not getting the respect he believed was owed to him bothered him. I think this is in part because he followed on from one of the most exciting Heavyweights in history in Mike Tyson -- who knocked out almost all his challengers until Douglas beat him -- and people naturally expected Holyfield to do the same. And when he failed to do so, he was derided for it -- most notably, for failing to knock out an old George Foreman and an old Larry Holmes -- and was endlessly compared to Tyson by the press.

If I remember correctly, Holyfield only began to get any sort of credit after Bowe beat him in their first fight -- especially after people witnessed his heart and powers of recovery in the 10th round when he was mere seconds away of being stopped, only to roar back and have Bowe reeling.

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Mobile boxers gave Forman problems even Morrison changed his slam bam stile and won .AJ is not mobile .Huge muscle man .Muscle man gets knocked out.

 

That was a terrific fight, Evan made it harder than it had to be but the fans got a gift

 

Really??! He may be a better puncher, but no way is he a bigger puncher.

 

He'd out box and out maneuver George.
George had an abundance of power but
he would never land it.

Michael Moorer was an absolute moron who never
listened to his corner. He was hot headed and arrogant
and neglected his gameplan. This wouldn't be the
case vs. Joshua. Foreman wouldn't get that lightning
in a bottle opportunity to land a big one. Joshua
definitely would not stop him but it'd be a lopsided win

 

Wilder, AJ destroy 90s Foreman. 40 year old Wlad has a field day with 90s Foreman, pummels and embarrasses him.

 

Evanders stock wasnt in question..foremans was and he was taken seriously after this fight. Most of the Broadcast announcers picked foreman to win. I saw this fight live on T.V,many ppl though Holyfield was too small for Foreman. Many boxing insiders also thought Douglas was going to beat Holyfield,up until he came in the fight overweight.

 

funniest comment on the web I've seen in a long while. "Moorer is a bigger puncher than AJ".

 

there is a chance 90s foreman lands a lucky punch on Wilder chin. Still 90's Foreman loses vs todays Klitscho, Joshua, Wilder, Povektin and Ortiz. Best chance for 90's Foreman might be vs Parker.
One thing for sure he would knockout todays version of Briggs

 

no way ever moorer is a bigger puncher than aj
granted aj only has 19 fights and moorer we have hindsight but moorer had to go the full route every single time he met someone with a modicum of resistence

the only fighter i can remember him stopping was jirov who was a cruiserweight .

he had power but it was respectable power only at heavy and nothing like the power moorer had when he was a light heavy.

as to the comebacking foreman / he was a big strong very slow heavy / struggled to keep his hands up and was basically an arm puncher .

experience and know how he makes aj look a baby but h2h aj speed gives him a huge advantage in the fight.

 

Ortiz is regarded as one of the best fighters in the division and he's really only a poor version of 90's Foreman. 88- 93 Foreman was far superior to the Ortiz who has no jab and has shown to be ineffective at cutting of the ring.

90's Foreman would have no problem running through todays top 10. He'd likely lose to Joshua since AJ can fight him off with aggression in close.

Wlad and Wilder get their glass chins shattered into fragments. I could see the jab alone putting Wilder on his ass piece.
Chisora , Whyte and Povetkin all fall apart form constantly walking straight into the power that destroyed Moorer , Cooney , Cooper , Coetzer.

 

90's Foreman was flawed but very dangerous. Kind of like a bigger, harder hitting Mercer at that time, he was just a big strong lump with a ramrod jab and one punch KO power.

To beat him you needed to either stay away from his power for the full 12 rounds like Morrison did, unlike Moorer who couldn't do it, or if you couldn't do that have a chin like Holyfield and take the odd huge shot and ride out those shaky moments.

Joshua is a big man wouldn't be manhandled like some and he can out box Foreman and I think he showed against Wlad he can take a big shot and come back. Foreman's lack of work rate would mean he wouldn't trouble Joshua's stamina too much either. So Id favour Joshua to win on points, but Foreman would give him the odd tricky moment.