Holmes and Tyson might be "pretty cool" off camera but I can imagine a riot ensuing if Atlas were to do to them what he did to Foreman there. No doubt Foreman was a mean S.O.B in his younger days though: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL7KnkWWXbQ[/ame] Hell of a staredown too: This content is protected [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGmobWw73ZM[/ame]
This stems from Atlas' time with Cus. D'amato told all his charges when telling them about old school fighters that George Foreman was a real killer who was not to be messed with. This stayed in Atlas' mind as it did Tyson incidently and that's why Atlas acted like that because he knew that deep inside Foreman was a killer in that ring and he perhaps saw that his fighter was being fooled. Lets not forget Tyson refused to fight Foreman based on what Cus had told him.
Then he would have become the fool that he made Atlas into ,by calmlly ignoring Teddy ,George actually belittled him imo.Atlas was out of order because George's hands were effectively tied. That was all ",look at me I ain't afraid of anyone bravado", imo If the cameras hadnt been rolling, Atlas wouldn't have done it.
You're probably right about him not doing it if the cameras were off, but I don't think it's because Teddy was trying to show off.
He was gonna get really pissed off if Lampley kept on going with the Allah **** in the Barrera-Hamed fight. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLtyKffXp4s[/ame]
Atlas and Old Foreman, both of them are pure boxing personalities. They wouldn't survive, much less thrive, in any other sport that I know about.
Foreman was cool the way he laughed off and basically ignored the "badass" Atlas "shoving him...i got a kick out of that.
Neither of which negate the fact he talks utter ****, is a complete moron, and embarrasses himself and the sport on a regular basis.
He's a good man who sticks by his principles and by his word. That alone gets more respect for him than a lot of others in my book. He says a lot of controversial things and sticks by his guns with them, knowing that a lot of people will hate him for it. He's one of the true good guys in boxing, despite being so rough around the around the edges. He calls BS when he sees it and you can count on him to confront the people at the source of corruption when he identifies it.
I disagree. He's been dining out on the fact he shouted in Michael Moorer's face for almost 20 years now. He's a mediocre trainer, in fact he's a disgrace to boxing trainers everywhere for effectively saying to the world he had no confidence in his own fighter by inexplicably rejecting a title shot for 31 year old former Olympic gold medallist Alexander Povetkin because Povetkin "wasn't ready". Pathetic. Also, he is a world-renowned joke for his utterly, utterly shocking, disgraceful and very obviously biased fight picks on ESPN. The guy would basically back a one-eyed one-legged Armenian dwarf to knock out either Klitschko. He has the worst record of fight predictions of anyone on the planet Earth, and yet that's one of the key parts of his job!! Unbelievable. And fabricating emails about Manny Pacquiao and PEDs was really the final straw, the man has no integrity whatsoever and shames the sport with his behaviour. When he eventually gets his biased ass fired for his mixture of stupidity, incompetence and all-round ****ishness, I'll have a drink to Teddy. Until then, **** him forevermore. :good
Seriously? :huh Strange, as I can't imagine how I could've said what I was saying any plainer or more clear or more obvious or more downright virulent.