Do you think Foreman would have got Chuvalo out of there?Any probs with the stoppage?

I think I recall having a discussion on here where someone was saying Chuvalo even went into that fight with an eye injury.

 

No, I do not think it should have been stopped, nor do I believe for a second that Mercante would have called a halt if not prompted by Chuvalo's manager Irving Ungerman overreacting to a histrionic Lynn Chuvalo at ringside.

It looked to me as though Chuvalo had weathered the worst of it, and was successfully riding out the storm. Years later, Ron Lyle made no attempt to punch back when Ali bombarded him with a torrent of nearly 50 unanswered punches. Chuvalo wasn't punching back at Foreman much, but he was actually returning fire.

Jimmy Young was similarly stunned by a Foreman hook at the outset of round seven over half a dozen years later, but was afforded the opportunity to compete through it by referee Waldemar Schmidt. Foreman-Chuvalo was stopped at 1:41 of round four. I believe that Chuvalo would have rallied to take the initiative before round four came to a close if it had continued, and that with his combination of stamina, physical strength and punching power, he may well have changed history against a spent Foreman later that night in Madison Square Garden.

Listen to Chuvalo's post fight interview with Dunphy. This was not Starling after Molinares. Chuvalo knew exactly where he was and what he was doing. There's footage of him getting his knees buckled by a huge DeJohn uppercut (what he calls the hardest punch he ever absorbed), and he recovered to win. He showed against Frazier that he was a competent judge of knowing when to call it off, and showed no signs of conceding against Foreman.

Again, take Lynn Chuvalo out of the arena, and a consequently over-reactive Irving Ungerman out of his corner, and I believe there's a real chance George Chuvalo knocks out young George Foreman in the later rounds, over four years before Kinshasa.

 

Chuvalo should be greatful the fight was waived after the 3rd stanza.... Had Foreman been allowed to keep punching Chuvalo, its possible that the Canadian would be wearing diapers today and being spoon fed by a live-in nurse....
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They just had this exact post s few weeks back ... Chuvalo was terribly hurt and on his way to being seriously hurt ... the same people protecting here besides being delusional would be the same ones ripping the ref id George died of injuries ...

 

To save typing, this from the other thread currently running on this topic.

 

Reasonable stoppage. Chuvalo wasn't going to win one way or another.