Fights That Could Have Happened That Were All Wrong For One Fighter

He had to be telling the truth if he said it to David Letterman.

Thank God I learned not to be so gullible.

 

Hmm? who to believe, you or Foreman?

 

I mean, sometimes it's provocation to try and make it happen.

Sometimes it's a front to hide who was really ducking (let's call it "the Deontay method") and raise profile at the same time.

Or maybe he really did believe it.


It's not always easy to figure out why people say what they do in public - especially in boxing.

 

Agreed. I always thought Haye v Fury was an interesting fight. I was really keen to see it when it was meant to happen. A lot of revisionist Fury fans wrote Haye off in retrospect. But that was a real danger fight IMO

 

Whereas I reckon that Hagler at that time could have got out hustled by a supremely confident (at the time) Graham, Hagler never liked speedsters, and styles make fights.

I do agree that Hagler seemed to find extra gears to win, but he was slowing down in 86/87

 

I felt like David Haye would be a very inconvenient opponent for Vitali. If I remember correctly, their fight was in the talks in the early 10s, when Vitali was already nearing the end of his career.

 

Foreman has said all kinds of things ranging from “Tyson was scared of me” to “I wanted zero part of Tyson”.

The most believable thing he said in regards to this is probably when he said Don King offered him $5 million for a Tyson fight in 90’, and signing with Don King on the dotted line is what really scared him.

Not only was it a lowball offer, but King probably demanded options on future Foreman fights. Foreman was with Arum.