Revised many of you said 94 foreman is too far gone, So lets say young george and old george are at the pinnacle of their separate careers who wins and why? (Sorry for the repete thread)
91 has more of a chance than the 94 one to be fair. honestly, can 73 george knock out 91 foreman? if not, does he have the stamina to outlast and outbox the better paced 91 version? could 73 foreman handle the well paced power of the 91 version? could he handle his shots in the later rounds? i give 91 version a fair shot
In Foreman's comeback his main asset was obviously his punching power. Almost unmatchable punching power, hence why the majority of his opponents tried to box. However he's matched against a top 5/10 H2H heavyweight with arguably better power, better speed and a better work rate. 73 Foreman would hunt down the 91 version with ease and fire at will. 91 Foreman doesn't have the defence or boxing skills to keep the younger version off of him in the early rounds. This is a good fighter that managed to win the heavyweight title fortunatley, too an extent, at the age of 45 against a H2H machine. The outcome won't bode well for the oleder, slower, lathargic Foreman of 91
Old Foreman has: jab, stamina, improved defense, chin, poise, experience young foreman has: early vicious onslaught, work-rate, speed,
I dont see old foreman getting past the initial onslaught, hes too slow. Old foreman gets stopped way before young Foreman runs out of gas
This would be a war of epic proportions. Both men rarely take a backward step, incidentally because they are the same man. In the shootout that would ensue, Old Foreman may employ all the relaxation and poise under stress that he had in abundance, but he's still going to end up crumpled on the canvas. More speed, more explosive, better reflexes. The suggestion that Old Foreman would calmly box from the outside doesn't add up for me. He boxed to be in the position to land his power punches -- he would be in that position from the get-go here, but up against someone with faster guns. A shotgun vs an automatic, if you will.
foreman in his peak would stop the old version by tko, even the great 91 version, young foreman was a fast starter, very aggressive and old george would have been a big slow target for the younger version of himself
the people who say that old foreman was better than young george are ******s who know nothing about boxing. a 40 years old man NEVER COULD BE BETTER THAN A YOUNG ATHLETE IN HIS 20s. simply ******s
Young George wins by the time five rounds have elapsed. Old George would know the strategy to beat his younger counterpart but would be unable to execute it. For every two or three power punches old George connects with,the younger man connects with five or six. A brave old Foreman gets rescued by the referee.
I foresee two possibilities. One, coming face to face with himself 18 years older would put him into shock and he'd simply pass out. Or two, the encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum, and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that's a worse case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.
if you think that hopkins was better in his 4os you are crazy, he had more experience and he got bigger, but he was better athlete when he was young
The older Hopkins was much more intelligent than his younger counterpart. Hopkins said himself when he was younger, he used to fight like a typical Philadelphia fighter (Frazier, Taylor) but as he got older he realized his career wouldn't last long and he started to fight much more smarter and take less damage. The older Hopkins could probably outbox his younger counterpart.
This would be fun to see. The only thing the 73 version has over the 91 version, is youth, so maybe a little hand and foot speed but not much if any. George has always been slow, he really wasn't much faster in the 70's. Strangely enough, his chin and stamina improved in the 80's imo. His power didn't change much at all, but he got smarter in the ring. His punching accuracy largely remained unchanged, and possibly even got better in the 80's. All things considered, imo, Foreman actually improved with age and was better 87-91 than he was in his youth. However, that's not to say that this trend continued much after 91 though. It was downhill for Big George after the Holyfield fight, but from 87-91 he definitely had his game back. This would be a war for sure. Could go either way, but i'm actually gonna give the slight edge to 91 George.