How does he do vs. both at his absolute peak? Are they that much bigger than him to "enforce their wills" on him? Who has the most power between the three?
They are much bigger than him but not by much. I haven´t seen enough of Foster or Tunney to make a prediction but I think it would be a beutiful chess match. Foster - Schmeling I think could be a real classic stylewise, I´d lean towards Schmeling but I´m very biased in here since Max is an idol of mine, so I think some more objective and knowledgable should answer this one.
Tunney outpoints Foster and Max kos him around the 8th,he hit too hard for Foster ,whose winning record against top Heavies is 0.
Hm, but both Tunney and Schmeling where lhws for large parts of their career, wouldn´t that negate their advantage a little bit? And how would a fight Tunney-Foster at lhw would work out? Different?
If I recall correctly, Doug Jones was also a LHW before growing into a 'small HW'. Yet, he had little trouble beating Foster. Tunney & Schmeling, both better than Jones, would have no trouble beating Bob Foster at all. As far as power is concerned, I feel that overall Schmeling had the best power of the three. Of course, as a LHW Bob Foster was a law into himself when it came to the matter of power.
