Big George: "Joe Louis Best Heavyweight Ever!"

Foreman just saying that because he believes he could beat Louis, and he probably could.
Who he couldn't beat was, The greatest, Ali.:yep

 

George is correct.

 

Joe Louis was not the best heavyweight ever.

 

George definitely incorrect.

 

I agree

 

Foreman sat helpless as Bernard Hopkins dismantled Foreman's favorite pick, Trinidad.

It was very sad listening to Foreman spout out one inaccuracy after the other during that fight. It made Foreman's stock and boxing knowledge tumble down to the myopic sub-levels of Merchant and Bernstein.

 

He is certainly top 2. Ali or Louis.. I have heard good arguments for both being the greatest.

 

Not even Ali believed privately that he was definitely better than Louis.

 

His claim that a shot decrepit alcoholic version of ****ey hit him harder than any man ever did, what do you make of that one IB? :think

 

I've no problem with it. Cooney has been largely reduced to a punchline but he was quite underrated.

Granted he wasn't the same force as when he fought Holmes, but power is the last to go.

Also, in his comeback, despite still possessing a terrific chin, I think George felt the blows a bit more than he used to.

Lakusta rocked him to his core, ffs..

 

:good

Yeah I can see that, felt them a bit more but at the same time took A LOT more shots than he used to. Very impressive that his chin held up as long as it did.

****ey hadn't even turned 34 yet when he fought Big George, but he looked almost a decade older!

Just thinking.... What a short bit of fun a Cooper/****ey fight would have been!

 

Merchant is an idiot. Bernstein has forgotten more about boxing than Merchant ever knew.

 

I always liked Merchant for his word play, the man knows how to speak behind a microphone you have to give him that.... But yeah Big Al has an encyclopedic knowledge of the sweet science.

 

Louis and Ali are 1 and 2 for me, or 2 and 1. I go back and forth.