haha thisis now one of my fav threads. george who was an awful technician did have a jab hat would crack you jaw even though he was a ugly fighter to watch his apporach was far more orthodox than sam peter who switches southpaw ,without knowing it,chases with the right hand and has only after fighting for a title,beating 5 top 20 contenders does he actually get to have a skill set. also clubbing george never clubbd he ball wrecked opponants he just flung his fists towards them in a circular motion.peter just throw punches like he is trying to hammer a nail. the difference is that peter is only now learning to have a good range of skills where as george just used his iron jaw to defend and tremendous power to attack to win his fights peter has a guard and was actually dancing around against toney. he has really iproved an i hope he has a new career becuase of it.
Foreman UD, if that's even possible. As long as he won't punch himself out he can beat Peter but i doubt he'd stop him. Peter has an iron chin.
If we are talking about the 2007 Samuel Peter and the prime George Foreman, neither is a real skilled boxer...George had the better jab by far and was a better body puncher. As far as punching goes, Peter probably throws more of the straighter punches, but Foreman knew how to get his body into punches better and without question, hit harder. I say this because Peter has a tendency to throw arm punches and not get his body into them....therefore, I don't think he is getting the most out of the power he has. The thing that sets them apart as well is the fact that Foreman knew how to cut off the ring very well. As far as defense is concerned, neither guy would ever be confused with Jack Johnson, but I think Foreman neglected defense more so than Peter. Peter seems like he is trying to be a more intelligent fighter and use a gameplan in the ring - whereas a young Foreman would simply throw everything he had and come at you with real bad intentions. In a head to head matchup, it would be an absolute barnburner. Foreman would win by mid round knockout.
Well the Toney fight was a bit of an eye opener. That guy probably was more technically proficent than Foreman.
Yes, he has potential and is my current favourite at the weight. Technicality is not just how pretty it looks though.
Peter is more textbook than Foreman. But Foreman was ackward and even though his punches were wide, they landed. He gets a lot of abuse on these forums about how he had no defense and just threw haymakers, thats not true.
I think although Peter has better form and is less of a wide puncher than George,Foreman had the better power and good jab, a younger Foreman would tire faster than Peter but the ref may have stopped it before than with Peter hurt
Peter has a better chin than frazier? you mean the same peter who was down 3 times. Frazier has only been knocked out by foreman, who is always considered one of the hardest hitting fighters of all time.
Nah, no one sane will tell you that Frazier's chin is better than Peter's. Peter ate some god damned unbelievable shots vs. Wlad and taunted Wladimir on. Frazier was hurt by Bugner, who's no Jameel McCline. Down against Bonavena multiple times, blah blah, take your pick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmgwRN-OCIE&feature=related That is not the look of a great chin, and the fact i recently seen a very poor tony thompson last 11 rounds with wlad shows the wlad isnt the hardest hitter in the world.