George Foreman: What Was, What Could've Been, Nothing Short Of Mind Boggling part 2

What could have been? A schooling against Holmes and a few other losses if he didnt quit after Young.

Foremans record against ranked opposition is only: 7-5. Out of those 7 wins you have the likes of second tier types like Peralta and Chuvalo. Is that the record of a man who deserves to be above more consistant dominant types with deeper win sets and a higher winning percentage? Foreman is a hard 1 to rank, but I do feel he gets overrated for his stagering power and strength, while his skill/defense/footwork all give him seriously problems against skilled boxer types

 

You should know that Frank Lotierzo has been ripping off your articles and then retroactively posting them on other sites a month before you've written them. You should contact him and tell him to stop stealing your articles.

 

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Louis and ALi both fought around 20-30 Ring ranked opponents. Lennox was 16-2 against ranked opponents (at the time he fought them, if you want to look at fighters who were ranked at anytime it would be higher).

BTW Foreman is well known to have ducked Holmes, he knows he can't live with a boxer like Holmes plain and simple

Foreman isn't close to any of these as a complete boxer and you been on his nut sack doesn't change that

 

This is so epically misinformed I don't know where to begin or if it is even worth it.

 

C'mon Chris...that's sacrilege.

 

Chris, giving Foreman his due is nice and he certainly deserves it. But your contention that Scott Ledoux would have beaten Marciano and Dempsey is a bit too much to take.

 

Anyone seen the footage of an old Scott Ledoux sparring with Mike Grant? He exposed Grant for the fraud he was far before Lennox did. Ledoux handed him his arse in sparring.

 

Very good.

He didn't. It was Foreman who has always avoided Holmes.

Yes, to kill time between his fights with top tier fighters.

That's correct.

No, he wasn't.

No, he didn't.

A bunch - Berbick, Spinks, Tubbs, Tucker, Ruddock(twice), Bonecrusher, Lennox, etc.

Ruddock, Holyfield(twice), Grant, Tua, Rahman, Vitali, etc.

Baer, Braddock, Schmeling(twice), Conn, Galento, Godoy(twice), Walcott(twice), Charles, Marciano, Mauriello.

Between them, Lennox, Byrd, Peter, Sanders, Chagaev.

Douglas, Bowe(three times), Tyson(twice), Moorer, Lennox(twice), Rahman, Byrd, Ibragimov, Valuev.

Walcott(twice), Lastarza(twice), Layne, Charles(twice), Moore.

Willard, Firpo, Miske(three times), Carpentier, Firpo, Tunney(twice), Sharkey.

All your questions are very easily answerable.

By definition, numbers aren't bogus.

No, he wouldn't.

No, you swiped your article from another site.

You don't run this forum.

 

What a twat Chris Warren is.

 

I like him though, don't ask me why.

 

Okay, I'll play the game. I love watching 70's George's wanton destruction of the likes of Frazier, Roman and Norton. What a beast Foreman was back then. His brawl with Lyle probably rates as my favourite heavyweight slugfest of all time.

 

I may get shot down for this but in my opinion, I truly believe that had Foreman fought Ali again he would not have lost. Foreman was a boy at 25. He was badly trained and so obviously dehydrated in Zaire and it was as humid as hell. I have a lot of love for Ali and he cleverly took his opportunity but I just think people write George off as some unskilled thug after watching the Zaire fight. This is so unfair and it overshadows some wins of genuinely epic proportions.
As a controversial note I put Foreman above Dempsey, Louis, Marciano, even Tyson.
However I do think the Galveston Giant would have caused him untold problems. Jack is the only HW great I would comfortably pick to handle George. But the shite comments dissing the greats such as Tyson, Louis, Marciano and Lewis are just plain daft. All would have given Foreman hard fights.:bbb