big george foreman on the hardest punchers

Douglas did a nice job of knocking Tyson's ass out and eve na old Foreman was better than Douglas. James Tillis did a good job against Tyson and a old Foreman is better than him. Pinklton Thomas with a mesed up shoulder held Tyson at bay with 1 arm for a good while and a old Foreman was better than him. Tony Tucker and Mitch Green went 12 with Tyson.

The hilarious thing even a guy like Mike Jameson was able to move Tyson around the ring. Jameson was just a light puncher.

Flat out Tyson didn't want a piece of old Foreman because he knew that his style couldn't beat Foreman. I think somebody posted the article here before.


This is what i red about it if it is true or not i do not know :

Convention Center in Atlantic City in January 1988.

While we were eating, Benton said, "Bobby, what's up with Foreman and Tyson, how come they're not fighting each other on the 16th? Isn't that the fight that King was trying to make?" He said, " Georgie,You'll never believe this but, ****in' Tyson is scared shitless of Foreman and wants no part of him. I was there when Don was trying to make the fight. He was telling Tyson that Foreman represented huge money, plus he was old and slow and would be no problem. Tyson got up and screamed at King saying, 'I'm not fightin' that ****in' animal, if you love the mother****er so much, you fight him!'"

Goodman stated that Tyson said Foreman was much better than people thought, and was a dangerous fight for any of the top heavyweights. Goodman proceeded to explain how Tyson was calling Foreman a big con man, and explained that the grandpop act was just a front. He said Tyson saw Foreman as trying to set up the boxing world into thinking he was a pushover, knowing that he really wasn't. Tyson said Foreman was a wolf in sheep's clothing. Goodman continued to say that after seeing Tyson's response to King trying to push him into a fight with Foreman, he had no doubt that Tyson had fear of Foreman. He also said that from that point on, he felt that if Foreman and Tyson ever fought, Foreman would knock Tyson out!

Throughout the lunch Goodman, Duva, Benton, and myself shared stories and thoughts on the fight game. Out of the blue Goodman said, "Oh I remember why else Tyson wanted no parts of Foreman. He said that King had found out from Steve Lott that Tyson and Cus D'Amato used to watch the Frazier-Foreman fight over and over." He continued saying that Tyson loved that fight because he was awed by Foreman's power and Frazier's toughness and how he kept getting up after every knockdown. He also said that Lott told King that Cus sat alongside Tyson saying, "It's suicide against Foreman if you're short and fight a swarming attacking style like Marciano or Frazier," never figuring that Foreman could be a possible Tyson opponent down the road. He said that Cus said the only fighters who had a chance against Foreman were, tall rangy fighters who could fight him from a distance while moving away from him, and no way any swarmer could beat Foreman by going to him.

the article is longer but this soms it up i think


If this was made up Don King and Tyson would of sued for slander. I don't see why the George Foreman vs Tyson threads keep popping up. I don't care what Tyson says now he knew he could never beat Foreman so avoided him.