The greatest performance you have ever seen?

Joe louis vs Max Baer - sharp shooting combinations, amazing to watch.

Floyd Mayweather vs Corralles - boxing masterclass.

Sugar Ray Leonard vs Wilfred Benetez

Bernard Hopkins vs Tito Trinidad

 

Foreman-Moorer.

Perhaps I am melodramatic but that fight was the greatest performance in sports that I ever saw.

The details get me every time:

-20 years after losing the title in Zaire
-He wore the same blue/red shorts
-Angelo Dundee in the corner
-Foreman lost damn near every round
-one shot did it
-Moorer was close to prime, undefeated, and a dangerous southpaw.

-After the count out, the way Foreman got down on his knees amid the chaos and looked up at the skylights -with his one good eye.

 

No. Next.:bbb

 

just one sidenote, it was two shots, the first one completely stunned Moorer (which he admits), leaving nothing in his legs, and the second finished the job

 

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calzaghe-lacy.

just brilliant from joe.

totally thrashed the guy.

floyd-corrales up there as well.

 

Recently, Mayweather vs Gatti.

 

go home

 

What Foreman did was throw two 1-2 combinations with a couple of breaths in between. The 2 in the first combination stunned him. Moorer took a moment to try to clear the cobwebs and jumped a bit in place, put his hands back up and then George pierced through the guard with a 1 and then that 2 which landed square on the chin.

I consider it a one shot KO but see that it may debatable.

 

Well, the joke's on you. And you should take care with whom you provoke.

It is beyond ludicrous to expect a 45 year old Reverend to give us a boxing clinic supplemented with speed and a dancer's grace. You seem to have a rigid understanding of "performance". This is Foreman we're talking about here. Considering his well-known and well-documented limitations as a boxer, as well as his age, that performance was grand. It was a performance not based on speed and skill like a 30 year old Leonard or a 42 year old Hopkins, but based in the end, on a relentless will. Foreman had three things going for him -strength, power, and will. Technically, he was never much. He sent telegrams before every shot he was so slow. He had to conserve a relatively small tank to last the distance. His aging skin bled and swelled easily. His defense was porous. Given these myriad detriments and his few and fading strengths, how can you not recognize how great that performance was?

[Danny Williams vs. Mark Potter was another great performance not only because of the desperation of the moment but because of the limitation of Williams -his right arm fell out of his shoulder and was totally useless! It was a great performance precisely because of his limitation.]

In fact, I will add that Foreman's performance only reached its climax that night when he reclaimed his old title. It began in 1987.

How? Foreman conned everyone into thinking that he was a happy-go lucky fat ex-champ who just wanted his cake and a good paycheck too. Underneath that facade was a man hellbent on avenging his life's greatest regret and humiliation... that being Zaire. Why do you think he wore those dingy twenty-year old trunks that he wore against Ali when he stepped into the ring against Moorer? Why do you think he kept them??

Foreman was a nasty buzzard. That menace you saw in the early 70s never really went away -it went underground... and it came out in the ring. I'd wager that you too thought he really did eat cheeseburgers during training.

Foreman was a master manipulator. It was subtle and psychological but it was pure domination of Moorer at the press conferences (Atlas saw this and reported it in his book. And he admits that Foreman won that chess game against him, meaning Atlas). It didn't stop there... Foreman bluffed and buffetted Moorer all night into moving precisely in line with his right cross.

It was a great performance at many levels.

 

I have to agree with Stonehands89, I mean, even the prime Foreman struggled against the likes of Peralta, Lyle, Young, etc. because of his technical flaws, so how could he make it in his comeback better? Sure, we can say that it was only a lucky punch, but that´s boxing, one punch can turn the whole fight, it doesn´t interest how the fight was before that shot, especially at HW. IMO because of his chin, power and iron will to be the champ again, deserves a "nomination" here...

 

I didn´t say it was actually the greatest performance ever. I said that a nomination is OK. Ali- Williams for example isn´t surely the greatest performance ever, because Ali at his absolute best against an overrated, shaky and former contender who was almost shot to death doesn´t count for me personally. Don´t forget Moorer was a very strong, unbeaten southpaw with good power, good skills, stamina, top trainer, always in shape, etc., nobody gave Foreman a chance...