George Foreman's Top Ten HW Champions.

Where does he rate himself?

Presumably above Frazier and below Ali?

 

He has said that he could not have beaten Frazier in his prime.

 

Big George is fascinating . Thank you!

 

Lol foreman is one of my héroes but this list And the reasons are a bunch of trash

 

George is notorious for changing his mind frequently.

 

Why no mention of lenni? Doesn't George go up and down about him being the best heavy weight ever?

 

Foreman tends to say what he thinks his audience want him to hear.

For example if he visits Britain, he talks up the British prospects.

 

You have to take Foreman with a big grain of salt.
he says what he says to suit the audience.

 

Foreman still thinks that Ali had him doped at Zaire.
He backs away from the claim, but always returns to it.

 

Someone should make a compendium entitled Stupid Sh*t George Says.

 

It might be sincere, since this list has several features I'd expect from Foreman:

* It ranks his opponents well.

* It fits Foreman's own formative period. The list is generous to people from his own era (including friends, like Liston), and from the preceding era that occurred when he was growing up (Patterson, Marciano), along with a couple consensus fighters most people talked about as being "great" during Foreman's prime (Louis, Dempsey, Johnson).

* It takes a swipe at Ali. This relatively low ranking would not be a popular opinion that most of his listeners would have wanted to hear from him.

* It heavily favors punchers like George himself. In Patterson's case, it's also a puncher who did the same thing Foreman did --regaining the HW championship.

 

It should also be noted, that he is a big Joe Louis fan.

Even when he was champion, he was mealy mouthed in Louis’s presence, and treasured any s****s of praise the Louis threw his way.

 

It's as good as any list of top level champions. In the end, they are all equally stupid.

 

His top 4 is solid, I just disagree with the order