Bob Foster thread

Thanks for posting this, made my day when he mentioned Chris Finnegan,one of my all time favourites

 

Great post, Matt. Cheers

 

Dude. Bob Foster had some of the most horrifying knockouts I have ever seen in my life. This man gave people near-death experiences with his monstrous left hook and right hand.

 

I remember the fight when The Soul Brothers defeated The Quarry Brothers, it was June 27 1972 in Las Vegas, Nevada, the night before Roberto Duran stopped champion Ken Buchanan in round 13 to win the WBA Lightweight title. Muhammad Ali won a TKO 7 over Jerry Quarry and World Light Heavyweight Champion Bob Foster knocked out challenger Mike Quarry in round 4 to retain the title.

 

Apparently Jerry was quite traumatised before going in with Ali having just seen his little brother brutalised like that.

 

Idk about him having "great" handspeed, I see him as one of the very slow yet very devastating punchers. There are some things that I never liked about Foster such as constantly ducking an opponents punch (which a tall guy shouldn't do), lack entertaining fights and tends to get overrated. I had him at somewhere #8 or #9 in light-heavy. Dangerous puncher, but I never saw him as complete fighter. All 80's light heavyweights like Qawi, Saad and Spinks steamrolls him easily imo.

 

Bob was the only guy I recall who cut Muhammad Ali up a little. From that jab. He must had some uncommon snap.

 

I would have like to see a MM pitting Mathew Saad Muhammad vs Bob Foster. That would have been something to see.

 

Top 4 at 175lbs for me.

 

I could never call him slow let alone very slow. His jab was always snappy and some of those left hooks that left people prone come out of no-where. Rondon was considered pretty slick and he wasn't in the race.

 

Sometimes a fighter is so dominate against the best of their era
though that competition may have been average at best, it's
easy to envision how they may have done against better competition.
Joe Louis is a prime example of that. There's nothing special about
the fighters Louis faced during his championship run, but the way
he easily dispatched most of them one can get a pretty clear
picture of his abilities.
Jones Jr. Also suffers from this. He never faced that one prime
atg, but the fighters he did face , some were better than average
(But some were well below too) The way he sent them packing
is a very good indication of how he may have done against the
Atg's of the weight classes he fought in.
Foster can be seen this way. Though Dick Tiger may not have
been a natural Lt.Heavy , he was a great middle, the complete
destruction he received from Foster is even more impressive
for Foster when one considers Tiger also fought big punchers
like Carter and Hank , he also faced Torres who was a Lt.heavy and they
barely made him bat an eye.
Some may say Tiger was at the end of his career, but a couple
fights after his destructive loss to Foster, he was able to beat
Benvenuti. (The same guy Monzon gets so much credit for beating)
that proves Tiger wasn't washed up.
Spinks probably is the greatest Lt.heavy in history. But Foster
wouldn't be far behind him in my opinion.
And if theirs one fighter that had the ability to ko Spinks
it would be Foster.

 

Coincidentally, I was watching this one last night. Quarry was out out. Like maybe dead out. Scary stuff.