Interesting George Foreman Interview

Interesting insight!

 

I really don't feel comfortable saying any more. So, I will just drop it.

 

Maybe that's why Floyd will always be more popular. He fought to win against everyone (and ignored the advise of what he should have done against Sonny, given what the public wanted).
The Klit boys are certainly talents, but I don't want to hear anyone give my hero any crap. Never scaled over 194 in his career.
Maybe the 'youngsters' on board here never truely appreciated Patterson's assets or popularity. Look at Wilson after the Super Bowl, a humble kind athlete, like Floyd. Too few of these guys nowadays.
Screw the '****iness' so rampant in pro sports these days! Perform like you've been there before. Patterson should be a model for all professional athletes right now.

 

He's a senior citizen now for Christ's sake, how tough can he be???? atsch

 

Ok at best? How did Foreman act?

I met him in 1999 when he came down to So. Cal to a big shopping center to promote his grill. He seemed friendly enough, but he was there to pitch his product, so he, of course, had on his "happy George" face. But he was nice enough to pose for a picture with my sister and I.

 

But he's not fighting great fighters, he's fighting 2nd raters, at least lately. His reputation as a reluctant fighter is well earned.

 

He just fought and beat the #1 guy a few months ago.

The two 2nd raters he actually fought Pianta and Wach, he did not excessively clinch from what I recall and made an effort at knocking them out.

 

In a strange way, yes, because it wasn't fighters or characters like Wladimir which made me a fan, and that probably rings true with 90% of fans.

Without drama, without excitement, boxing becomes the physical manifestation of the stock market. Everybody loses interest. Being the greatest doesn't mean anything. In fact, the word "great" wouldn't even be used because it refers to aspects which are foreign to Wladimir.

A bit of a smart-arse way of looking at things, but unavoidably true.

 

That's just plain stupid.

 

Very stupid. He would still **** up 99.x% of the population.

 

True.

 

So did Ingo. And he was a lot smaller and further removed from his professional career than Foreman.

 

Bizarrely enough, one of the things I'd always liked about Wlad is that he did everything "correctly" by modern standards.

He fought with a slightly amateurish style, but was a highly skilled textbook amateur by and large. Trained using modern periodization schemes, Eastern European methods, etc.

If anything, his time with Steward annoyed me less because he became "boring" than because he stopped being the unalloyed creation of modern training theory.

But to each his own, I suppose.

 

But could he beat up an Aikido master like Steven Seagal?