Foreman vs Lyle is probably my favourite, but also probably one of the most akward fights ever.....

It's quite the education, my friend.

Might want to watch Liston-Machen sometime too (if you haven't already). That fight showcases more skills than Liston's detractors would care to admit. Great watch.

 

Greatest pier 6 brawl ever. Just raw power and heart. Foreman nearly threw all of his skill out the window, but toughed it out after taking a lot of brutal blows that would have knocked out a lot of guys. Defense nearly absent. Toughness, heart, power, and yes, superior conditioning won it for him. Overall, a wild and amazing all-time classic slugfest. Ron Lyle learned that you can’t out punch George; you can only outbox him.

 

Primal last man standing stuff.

 

Where would you fellas rank it if you were listing the most entertaining HW fights of that decade? Taking outer-ring impact out of it (Zaire for instance, was a huge fight but not terribly entertaining purely as a fight)?

 

As someone once described it "The most two sided fight ever seen"

 

I just got through re-watching it. Foreman showed some heart alright, wow. He ended the fourth round flat on his face & arose like a zombie, then spent most of the fifth round getting pole axed, until Lyle simply ran completely out of steam.

 

Boxing News ranked it in their Top 5 Fights of the 1970s. Quite justifiably too.

 

Thank you. Just watched Holmes-Norton & ploughing through fights as I’ve got some significant downtime.

 

He comes out with that enormous sweeping swing for each of the first three rounds. I’d love to know if someone ever asked him about it. Foreman should’ve been ready to capitalise on it instead of just effortlessly sidestepping by the third time LOL. That punch made Foreman look like Pernell Whitaker.

 

To be fair to Foreman, the second round was stopped a full minute early, when he had Lyle in moderate trouble against the ropes.