George Foreman '73 vs. Evander Holyfield '92

Holyfield by UD

 

The same as I've always said: Holyfield COULD win, but he won't. He's going to land a good combination, get excited and start slugging with George. And the fight will probably turn there.

 

Evander can box outside or rumble inside.

Young Foreman is one of the two ultimate heavyweight sluggers, cut the ring off better than any heavyweight not named Joe Louis, and if Holyfield fought inside, would simply beat him up and out in the end, if Holyfield tried to go outside, well, if Ali couldn't stay away from George and avoid his cutting the ring lff, Holyfield certainly couldn’t either, and he would be forced back inside.
George by late TKO. In any event, young george was more powerful, stronger, and his power was greater than holyfield's by "half of the earth", even if he was on PED’s.

 

Evander gets excited after a good shot and starts to slug it out, gets caught by a monster uppercut and its basically over from there.

 

That last round of Bowe v Holyfield 3?..Thats what Prime Foreman does to EH.

 

Again, perpetuating stupid suppositions/myths, like:
- Holyfield could not control himself and would always try to brawl and trade punches;
- Tyson always folded when people stood up to him;
- Bowe could be hit by anyone;
- the old timers are all ultra tough (like they have some kind of super power or something);
- if Tyson couldn't take out his man in the first rounds, then he loses;
- Lewis, Morrison had a glass chin (No they ****ing didn't !!!);
etc.

All of these are pure GARBAGE !!!

Holyfied is no idiot, he will not try to slug it out blow for blow with Foreman.
In the instances he did in 92, he only did it cause he knew he would out-land Foreman, as in receive 1 punch but land 3 or 4 of his

 

Ali could not stay away cause he was older and did not quite have the same stamina. He said so himself, that he realized after the first round that he felt tired and his legs won't hold him to dance for 15 rounds, thus he switched tactic

 

I disagree: I'll bet on Holyfield on points.

 

To me a pure 50/50! 72-73 Foreman is the most complete version of himself. And like i said it multiple times: Evander's biggest advantage was always to adjust his style and match it to the opponent. But Geroge will always have the punchers chance, and there is also a good probability for a Norton like scenarion.

 

Yes, he didn't have the legs anymore.
Holyfield is nowhere near as good an outside fighter as the 1960's Ali was, but i believe we can compare him to the 1970's Ali, who simply couldn't run away from george.
But even if Foreman doesn't cut the ring off, Holyfield would, at one point, get excited, and stand up to george and turn this into a slugfest, which he lose by a brutal TKO.

 

While I don't disagree that Holyfield was a better boxer than Foreman, and while I think it's within his technical ability to take it, I think his love of a brawl trips him up here.

 

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