George Foreman - Vitali Klitschko (both prime)

IMO, Foreman would stop him. Foreman may very well be the hardest puncher ever. If not, he's close to the top.

 

Foreman busts him up early, has him rocked and hurt by the third. By round 4 Vitali s face is a swollen, bleeding mess and the ref call s it off. George, too wild and hungry here.

 

foreman stops him

 

Doesn't his loss against past prime , old and slow Lewis kinda answer that question..

 

Vitali ain't exactly a mover nor is he defensively slick, Foreman uses his very underrated footwork and cuts the ring off and uses his own jab to get in exchanges with Vitali. By the second round Vitali is backing up and he can't fight effectively , Vitali is forced to clinch and finds Foreman a brutally strong man. George wobbles Vitali and stops him toward the end of the 5th round

 

No Sanders is faster than the fastest Version of Foreman. He doesn't hit as hard though

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LOL typical classic.

The guy who was never even off his feet gets knocked out by the smaller guy who was KO'd by lesser fighters.

In my opinion Vitali is exactly the wrong matchup for Foreman, who would have to come onto him and get knocked to pieces by the bigger man who is quite adept at fighting off the backfoot. Foreman tired. Vitali never blew himself out despite being busier.

Vitali on points or by late KO if Foreman tries to push the matter and blows his gaskets.

 

Sanders was indeed a faster, snappier and more accurate puncher than Foreman and he found it difficult to land clean on Vitali. Granted Foreman has more clubbing power but looping punches are not the right medicine for a guy that fights like Vitali.

 

vitali 100%

 

It does

 

Suppose it's possible Vitali can land enough consistently on George as he comes in to get a stoppage in fact don't think that's far fetched at all, but....
Vitali is obviously not gonna stand and trade so he'll have to move for every second of the fight, can he do that and land effective punches round after round ?? Not sure, if yes he wins if not he gets stopped on his feet due to exhaustion.

 

Bingo

If you get your face carved up by a old Lewis who has at best ok whiskers arm puncher VK anit got a prayer against prime Foreman

VK failed the pass the torch test, full stop, absolute fact, TKO6.

BTW, Sanders is a one hit wonder who struck gold against glass chinned WK, thats it.............he could not even get by glass cannon Rahman or pro sparring partner Tubbs...............he was picked out of the trashcan to face WK because he was a non entity..........struck gold, got stripped , lost again and fell right back in line to be a non entity again

 

I don’t understand the logic here.

Any fighter can get cut at any point.

Vitali lost fair and square, but it was on a technicality.

The doctor stopped it. And rightly so. But he was winning the fight. It’s not like Lewis was out boxing him and really hurting him, where the referee had to step in to stop it in order to save him from being knocked out etc.

It was an unsatisfactory ending, and Vitali was desperate for a rematch which Lewis wouldn’t grant him.

What does this have to do with a Foreman fight?

I could absolutely envisage George beating him, but I don’t think that Vitali’s fight with Lennox is really that relevant.

I could also see Vitali not being intimidated by George, and George going it for it early but then slowing down and maybe leaving himself vulnerable. So I can also envisage a scenario where Vitali could have beaten him too.