Ezzard Charles vs George Foreman

Prime Charles can avoid Georges' roundhouses, the same way he avoided Satterfields', who was much quicker. By the 5th, Charles goes to work, as George starts to Gas. By the 10th Georges face is swollen, perhaps cut, as he is now quickly Gassing. Charles scores a knockdown in the 15th to seal the deal and takes a U.D.

 

Prime Foreman vs Charles is a tough one could go ethier way, old Foreman would lose almost every round to Charles he get totally outboxed by Morrison.

 

nah,no way foreman loses to a blown up middlieweight. that is not to disparage charles,a great fighter indeed and a fine ring general who is top 5 P4P light heavy without a doubt. but he would be giving up 40lbs to a real monster who did totally blitz some very good fighters himself. i see george takin him out 3/4 rounds. just the way i see it...

 

First instinct is to pick George by early kayo. But then, I think about Gregorio Peralta and realise that there is probably more to it than meets the eye.

Point is, Foreman was probably still a bit green when he fought Peralta. The Foreman who fought Chuvalo, Frazier, Roman, Norton and Ali was an absolute monster. This Foreman had learnt to cut off the ring and also be a bit patient and look for an opening (Norton), but when he got the chance his urgency was hard to keep off.

Charles was no doubt a beautiful all round fighting machine - very good boxing skills, fast, slick and sharp. His problem would be size and strength. He might avoid Foreman for a couple of rounds. But the prime Foreman mentioned above, would have a very good chance of catching Ezzard and finishing him off by the fifth or sixth round. If the fight goes beyond this stage, and Charles has managed to avoid serious damage, then Ezzard has a fair chance of winning this one on points.

 

Prime Foreman (1973) vs Charles.

Foreman, most likely by KO.

 

Size and strength play a big factor here. Charles does well early but ends up just being overwhelmed. Foreman by mid round stoppage.

 

Very interesting match-up. But Charles fought old Louis. Foreman would catch up and knock out Charles in late rounds.

 

Charles defuses him with those sneaky right hands.

 

Foreman is a top heavy, Charles is a great light heavy that had no chance of winning the heavy titlle in the 60s or 70s. Overrated 50s once again. Except for Rocky the 50s heavys would come nowhere against Liston, Ali, Frazier or Foreman.

 

You can't compare the 36 year old Louis that fought Charles to a prime Foreman. He came out of retirement because he was broke and hadn't fought in 2 years. At 218 he was at his career heaviest, in his next few fights as he got back into fighting shape he got back under 210.

Foreman showed he had learned how to cut off the ring in the Norton fight and unlike Louis, he wouldn't have to respect Charles power and Charles chin wasn't the best. I have great respect for Ezzard's skills, but I think Big Foreman is too much for him to handle.

 

Charles outboxes Foreman.

And I have my doubts over whether the young Foreman could last the distance in a 15 rounder.

 

Overated 50s? What was overated about it? No chance winning in the 1960s when floyd patterson and johannson were champions then?

 

Big Cat was one of the fastest punchers ever. His power/speed would seriously give him a very good chance to knock Foreman down here, Foreman didn't have the strongest chin in his first career.

Foreman is also slow, and has a leaky defense which would enable Williams to be able to tee off on him. Williams was able to land big shots and actually hurt Liston in both fights, the only man to do this to prime Liston. Liston had much superior defense than Foreman, a great, hard jab to stop people from getting close. He is also more durable, and Williams broke his nose and had him stunned, Williams would at least have similar results against Foreman.

I see Foreman winning by KO in 4. It looks somewhat like the Lyle fight except Foreman doesn't come as close to being stopped. His edge in power and chin would be the difference here and he'd climb off the canvas once to finish him off.

Charles got knocked out by the 185 pound Rocky Marciano is slower, weaker, less skill ect ect ect than George Foreman

Charles had nothing to keep Foreman off him. Charles was a natural middleweight/ light heavyweight who never beat any 220 pound fighters like Foreman,Bowe, Lewis , Lyle ect ect ect

Charles would never beat Foreman and would be stopped in a few rounds.

 

Marciano is not slower than foreman. Marciano is defintley much more skilled in the ring than foreman. Marciano became very adapt thinker in the ring and became almost cute with his defense in his crouch and the way he mixed up his punches...Foreman fought the dumbest fight in boxing history against Ali, foreman was just so dumb and stupid in his prime, outside of his jab he was not skilled in any department. No Brains.

Aging Gregorio Peralta did, so did Jimmy Young. Charles was better than both these men.

On the Flipside, foreman struggled greatly with aging lightheavyweight boxer Gregoria Peralta twice, and lost badly to boxing stylist Jimmy Young. I would also argue Charles is proven against big punchers 220lb. Ezzard beat 220lb Joe Louis, and 220lb Big Puncher Johnny Haynes

Maybe not, but its safe to say Charles was a much better fighter than Gregorio Peralta who twice went 10 rounds with foreman.

 

wait a minute lads

hasnt Pac man taught us anything. Size isnt that important

i pick Charles by UD give me skills and speed over strength and size anyday