Lennox Lewis vs George Foreman

Excuses excuses excuses

 

You can say the trash what you want... Foreman never got knocked out cold by the impact of a shot, he was gassed

 

Is this an excuse or a fact? foreman never got knocked out by a single shot .
Show me a fight where or when foreman got knocked out early. When he got stopped against Ali it had to do with stamina and everybody know it.
With lewis it is not the case

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Foreman got hurt bad with a single blow vs. Lyle.
Do you really want to bring that weakness, along with losing a boxing match to Young, to the table against Lennox Lewis?
You know what punchers Lewis faced and how he fared most of the time?

 

I'm not religious.

 

Absolutely.

 

The problem is that there are a world of difference between getting knocked the **** out by a single shot and taking a beating then getting up and winning by ko.
Frank bruno had lewis drunk nearly ko, tua was too short to land anything and lewis fought in chicken mode and just did outbox him, rahman knocked him the **** out , mccall stopped him and ruddock got stopped by every big puncher that he fought

 

So you still win if dropped and stopped from being gassed? Mate a "W" is a W, an "L" an L.

Foreman was close to being ko'd by Lyle if you want to go the shallow road. If it was peak Lewis that night he'd have been axed.

 

Who the hell is debating the win? The point is that foreman had better durability than lewis and it is a fact.
Lewis nearly got raped by bruno and GOT RAPED BY RAHMAN AND MCCALL

 

Well you can talk gassing (which is right) all you like but the guys that dropped Lewis very likely hit harder than Ali and sure as hell hit harder than Jimmy Young. They may well have hit harder than Lyle too who knows.

So at the end of the day if Lewis drops and stops a fatigued Foreman it's one and the same. Lewis sure didn't get dropped/stopped in the second half of fights due to fatigue. Foreman did. Neither were big hitters.

Given a stoppage is a stoppage in some ways first career Foreman may well be less susceptible to getting stopped than Lewis. Whether one is getting stopped and losing to fatigue or other makes little difference.

There's more than one side to this picture. The Lewis right hand is much more direct than Foreman's wider first career swings too. He also has a decent size advantage which won't hurt his cause tho one shouldn't be foolish enough to get fixated on it, just like the two Lewis stoppages.

 

I think the fight is close ONLY because Lennox was vulnerable when a good punch came on the spot! Lewis with a Vitali-chin is nearly unbeatable anyway.
But what happens if we apply that logic in hindsight of the Lyle and Young performance (like we apply Lewis weaknesses to rate him) ?
Lewis FOUR TIMES finished big heavy fighters (and powerful punchers - Ruddock, Golota, Grant and Botha) extremely agressive after he hurt anyone of them.
You understand that discrepancy in logic, if you want to bring Lewis with his z-game, but at the same time bringing a George who looked extremely vulnerable against much lesser fighters?

If you bring Lewis with his z-game, and I bring George who looked like **** against Young and open as barn door against Lyle, what would the prediction look like in that case?

Answer: Its pretty much the same than bringing both with their a-game, a pretty close fight.

 

Some right royal rot in this lot Boxeo. Lewis fought a superb fight vs Tua. As for Ruddock, Smith not a big puncher? How about Tyson? Controversial stoppage first fight and Ruddock went the distance in the second.

 

Jesus seriously now i did read everything here... Yes... I say that it is close "only because foreman did not have the stamina of ali."
I don't pick robinson over marciano "only because he did not have the size"
Keep the dumb conversation between dumb people.. Bye

 

Hahahha the shot smith that raped ruddock like a rag doll before he got tired?
Tyson stopped him too, morrison stopped him, lewis stopped him, ruddock was a joke