Bob Foster vs Pierre Fourie II footage (Plus Foster ESPN piece with Foster interview!)

Foster carried Fourie in this fight to punish him for calling him “boy”

 

Yeah me too...his opponents during his title reign were very underwhelming but he dominated them...too bad he slipped pretty far in 73-74...would have loved to seen him fight galindez

 

Fourie was IMO, a sort of Joey Maxim 'lite'! Slick, savvy, and you weren't going to KO him!
Never heard about the 'boy' comment but that doesn't seem like something that Pierre would say; I'd heard he was a 'clean family guy'. Plus Bob agreed, after New Mexico, to go to South Africa for a rematch. Plus Multi-2 fight 30 round Championship UD losses against the best LH's at the time. Pierre was a darn good technician.

 

Given his brutal loss to Frazier, it's incredible he could come back from that. Then go ahead and add a long sustained beating from Ali. How many other guys are rebounding with any kind of effectiveness from that?

Folks can say what they want about him as a heavy, what you can't do is question his willingness to fight anyone anywhere and take on major challenges.

 

In Foster's 13th fight, he fought a top Lthvy Maruo Mina (45-2-2) in Peru, losing by a UD.
1963-11-07 : Bob Foster 176 lbs lost to Mauro Mina 180 lbs by UD in round 10 of 10

• Location: Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru
• Referee: Jose Salardi

Foster was knocked down for a count of eight in the 9th round

Four fights later he was in with an improving Ernie Terrell(34-4):

1964-07-10 : Bob Foster 183¼ lbs lost to Ernie Terrell 202½ lbs by KO at 0:58 in round 7 of 10

• Location: Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, USA
• Referee: Arthur Mercante

Foster was dropped with a right to the chin. He rose groggily, but before Mercante reached eight, Foster, staggering along the ropes, fell to the canvas without being hit, and Mercante continued past "10 and out." (UPI)

Terrell was 12-5 favorite (AP).

 

Unless Im mistaken this is footage of their second bout which somebody videotaped off a tv screen playing the fight. You can tell because at the beginning of the fight you can see something with the name "Springbok" (the promoters of fight 2) and the ring is different. The first fight was fought in an Everlast ring with the distinctive Everlast logo repeated down the corner posts. This one is not.

 

A little known fact nowadays, but actually Galindez-Foster was signed and to take place in south Africa in 1977 with Foster guaranteed $70,000 as title challenger and to be televised. For whatever reason, Foster refused a pre-fight exam and the fight was scrapped. Can you believe it? He later said the reason was he needed more time for training or something like that. I can't see it being much of a fight by that stage. Foster was slipping badly in '74. He had to be creaking by '77.

 

Foster was obviously slipping by this stage but Fourie was an excellent fighter. Light-hitting but with a lovely relaxed mobile style and high level of ring craft. He was too small at 175 though, a real pity for him that super middle didn't already exist at that point. I could see him being highly formidable there as a pure boxer.