How Would A Young Foreman Have Done In The 1990s?

You think the Young fight was CLOSE?

 

Close to God.

 

LOL .. funny.

 

I'd have to rewatch it ... I'm not sure it wasn't one of those fights that the momentum by the underdog and the drama may have overblown the scoring ... through the round where eGeorge had him badly hurt (7th?) it was I think very competitive but again have to rewatch it ..

 

Foreman is not Briggs. The fact Briggs came closer to knocking out prime Lennox Lewis then 47 year old Foreman really says wonders too.

 

If not for the deduction Foreman would have drawn the Young fight if he'd won the last round and if he'd scored a 10-8 he'd have won the fight. Even with the deduction if Foreman had gotten a 10-8 in the last round it would have been a draw. Foreman just narrowly avoided scoring a knockdown earlier in the fight too.

It was a close fight.

 

I can't agree. Shulz had a great tactic for Foreman and he fought a Foreman who couldn't cut the ring like he did in the 70s. Legs make all the difference. Young George would have caught up with him, the old one was too slow, that's all. What other boxer could fight like that in reverse?
Yes, George didn't get a decision after 12 rounds but he was close with Holyfield. Close enough to assume that a younger, faster Foreman would have gotten the decision and maybe even finished the pugnacious Evander. Bowe would have wanted to fight him too and that's always a bad idea.

Foreman could have had a big problem with the prime Holmes, Tucker and Tubbs but in the 90s they were past their prime. He would have a problem with prime Vitali and Wlad but they got a chance after 2000. He would have a problem with someone like Byrd but he was also kept away. In my opinion Foreman wins everything from 1991 to 1999. He loses to Lewis. not because he is worse but because like Holyfield before he gets into this fight he will be already broken, worn out and burnt out by the wars with Bowe, Holy, Tyson, Moorer and will be past prime since 1997 and Lewis will stay away.

 

Not really

 

Well JY would have been robbed, he was drumming Foreman and dropped him in the final round lol I don’t know how you can watch that bout and think Foreman comes out looking good even on the inside JY was stunning him multiple times over across the fight, Foreman had moments but the fight was Uncle Jimmy’s.

 

The point was it was a close fight that Foreman had a chance to win up to the end. Not that Foreman won.

People were questioning Foremans stamina and he fought one of the best skilled HWs ever to a standstill. Contrast this to how Lyle did against Jimmy Young. This fight was the foreshadowing of the point fighter late 90s Foreman became.

 

One of the most skilled HW's ever? Now I know I can't debate this with you man, that's absolutely whacky and I am the Toney beats Foreman guy. Uncle Jimmy Young was a good contender but no great at all.

 

@My dinner with Conteh you my friend are strangely absent from a thread where “Joltin” Jimmy Young has been called one of the most skilled HW’s ever.

 

From one guy who has an “Agenda” against George Foreman to another I think this post is pretty much it. Funnily enough 70s Foreman’s career would do well to resemble Old Foreman’s he’d need to be managed perfectly to keep the damage from adding up, putting a guy with a defence like that in with Ruddock x2 would be risky, stunting and prematurely age the guy if he went 1-1 and wanted a third for $ he’d be damaged goods by 95-96 and likely be on Post Prison Tysons chopping block…. Holyfield likely outlasts and breaks his psyche before the ball even gets rolling, ideally he’d fight the exact same line up as Old GF but I don’t think he’d have the same commercial success to have a career like that…

 

Ray Mercer also had a gold medal and it only went so far.

 

He would do very well.

Pre 97 Lewis has very little chance vs Foreman and i would even favour George over the post 97 version.

Bowe avoided big punchers and my guess is he would avoid Foreman too.