Foreman vs Cooney

By then Cooney was a washed up, ring rusted drug addict. Many guys would have blown out that version of Cooney.

 

Talking to yourself again?

 

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Has Foreman in username=must be an alt. ****** logic 101

 

, Seriously Foreman at 41 was better than the Foreman that lost to young, he looked.more.relaxed in the ring, knew how to pace himself better, and wasn't swinging for the fences with every punch...

Cooney never found himself after the Holmes.fight, drugs, booze, inactivity, lousy management, lack of confidence, etc...

Nobody including himself expected him to beat George , he showed up for one last nice check and that was it...

 

Bernard Hopkins, turned 40 in 2005 and since then has beaten a lot of men up, some 10+ years his junior, and from what i hear plans to fight for a title at 50...

 

Cooney was in much better shape for foreman an than he was for spinks , his camp had gone well enough for Clancy to clearly be impressed by cooney . Was cooney badly rusty yes of course he was but if you watch the 1st round only he didn't look that bad . He got caught by big big puncher and was finished off by a devastating punch , foreman would of beaten quite a lot of the heavies around at the time . Do I think if cooney had carried on would he of been champ no I don't but I do think he could of gotten a few good wins

 

I was impressed by the accuracy of Foreman's punches the wild swinging of his youth was not evident in this clinical dispatching.

 

It was an impressive performance. I think the second career really got kick-started with this win.

Regarding Cooney...it's tough to be out the ring for that long with no tune-up fights. He really should have taken on one or two cans just to get back into the feel of it. To fight Foreman, who had being fighting regularly, after a long layoff did him no favours.

But still, George displayed awesome power here, highlighted by that monster uppercut and right hand that dropped Cooney, who was out cold before he hit the canvas. What was most impressive was his patience. He was as cool as a cucumber the whole evening.

 

Cooney had no right to even be in that ring .. he was looking, again, for a short cut to big money .. he had fought twice in the previous six years , not one in the preceding three .. he felt Foreman was old and ripe but Foreman was active and in shape while Gerry was not .. it was a crushing performance by George because of how short and decisive but Gerry should not have been in that ring at all ..

 

Your clearly right but that he was in that ring tells how George was perceived at that point of his comeback, not seriously. Reading Gerry's account of the fight he felt good and ready and talks of landing the hook that shook George but then how he was caught and couldn't recover. What impressed me of Foreman in this bout was the left uppercut he had developed so well, not a commonly used punch and then not often thrown with the power he got into it.

 

I heard that Cooney had a panic attack either late in the first round or maybe between rounds. Can anyone here either substantiate or refute this? He did stun Foreman with that hook which seemed to ricochet off Foreman's elbow into his face.

When Foreman appeared on the Letterman show the day after this fight he was clearly sporting a black eye. When Letterman flippantly stated that: "Isn't beating Cooney kinda like akin to beating someone like me perhaps?" Foreman lost his jovial veneer for a second and looked visibly annoyed. He 'scolded' Letterman telling him: "I'm gonna tell him you said that." He went to say that except for Lyle, Cooney hit him harder than any man he ever fought. When Letterman became incredulous at that, Foreman reiterated his point: "Cooney hit me hard! After that I knew he was especially dangerous and I had to end the fight as quickly as I possibly could." Someone like Letterman, who never had a fight in his entire life, couldn't understand this concept at all.