Bob Foster v Jim Corbett and Bob Fitz

He seesm to have prety much hit a brick wall past 175lbs, so I am not inclined to think that he would have beaten these guys.

 

The wall that lay beyond 175 was sterner in the 1970's by ten fold. I enjoy your role as foil, but sometimes it strains any laziest levels of credulity.

 

But Foster wasn't just loosing to the Ali's and Fraziers.

He was also loosing to the Doug Jonses.

It would not necesarily take a strong heavyweight division to cage his ambitions at 175.

 

Foster did very poorly vs. heavyweights with moderate to good power. Foster said, the heavyweight jab, felt like the Light heavyweight knockout punch. I don’t think Foster could take much from Fitzsimmons, and would pick Fitz to win via KO with a head or body shot.


Foster vs. Corbett would be interesting. If you believe Joe Choynski and Peter Jackson hit on Bob Fosters level, Corbett’s durability should be enough to weather an occasional hard shot from Foster as he went 80+ rounds with Choysnki and Jackson without being floored.


Foster was tall, and long, but Corbett was kid quick with his hands and feet, and very hard to catch cleanly to the head. I see a very tactical type of match here, with Corbett winning a split decision.


Foster is one of those all time greats who really did poorly when he moved up in class.

 

Foster would knock out Fitz and Corbett. Foster was from the advanced pro-boxing era, Fitz and COrbett from the semi-pro amateur sport that was in it's infancy. That different in standards of performance would be very very telling

It's a bit like expecting a 5 a side pub team to beat Barcelona, it's not going to happen

 

That is about the only argument that you could make for Foster.

One based on there being zero points of equivalence between two eras.

 

Bob Fitzsimmons vs Bob Foster would have been a cool fight, both are cut from the same cloth. Both had freakish power.

 

If he does that in a dream he better wake up and apologize!

 

Thank god for common sense.

 

Any answer that hung on common sense, would have to acknowledge Fosters lack of sucess against fighters over 175lbs.

Even if you think more highly of modern fighters, it should be obvious that this isn't going to be a walk in the park for him.

 

Fitz isn't over 175, he's smaller than Foster, Corbett isn't nearly as big as the HWs Foster fought and is a very light hitter, so I don't see what issue his size is