George Foreman Had Zero Defense

I agree. This whole narrative about Ali doing a rope a dope is very exaggerated. He was out boxing George Foreman easily and was never losing at any point. Many slick boxers would've beaten George Foreman. The 2 he fought in his first career Ali and Young beat him.

 

As for Wilder, well he barely hit Ortiz in two fights either. It took him forever to find a home for a clean shot to get him out of there so it's not as if Fury had to be a defensive marvel not to get hit much against him as even Ortiz wasn't.

Luis Ortiz is also a much better defensive fighter than George Foreman. Why can't you just admit that his defense was bad.?

 

Exactly. I said the same thing. Nobody would say that Wilder has great defense.

 

Fury doesn't have Foremans chin so when he gets hit and dropped it's a lot more memorable. Foreman got hit more in the Lyle or Ali fight than Fury did in his whole career. Foremans defense wasn't underrated. It was terrible.

You made an excuse for every single time Fury got nailed or looked bad "he had an off night, he got careless" etc. You are blatantly being hypocritical. Everyone gets hit but Fury gets hit a lot less than Foreman did on a per round basis.

"Fury's last 13 opponents averaged just 6.2 punches per round. This is the third-lowest number among all fighters and the lowest among all heavyweights."

https://ringside24.com/en/55809-fury-white-compubox-hit-statistics.amp

 

I'm not diminishing anything from his accomplishments. He just had bad defense.

 

What does that have have to do with having good defense?

 

The point is that that's not really defense. It's offense.

 

When Berlanga was knocking out dudes in the first round you considered that great defense?

 

Fury got hit plenty.
"Fury's last 13 opponents averaged just 6.2 punches per round. This is the third-lowest number among all fighters and the lowest among all heavyweights.

You can't give excuses to Fury for having "off nights" or "being careless" but then give no excuses for Foreman. That's hypocrisy. Either both fighters get excuses or neither of them do. No excuses.