The Mountain That Punches: Young George Foreman

Of the top 10 heavyweights at the moment Joshua, Wilder, Wladimir and Lucas Browne are taller. It is hard to say which one weighs naturally more. As I said Foreman was listed at 6'3 1/2 and 230 as a 19 year old. All of these guys turned pro in their 20s. Wlad even weighed 220 when he turned pro. Joshua turned pro at 24 and weighed 230. Are you telling me Foreman couldn't put on 10 pounds at his height?

Alexander Povetkin is 6'2 220 pounds and is PED's
David Haye is 6'1 and 200 pounds naturally

Guys like Christian Hammer and Vyacheslav Glazkov are arond 6'2. Joseph Parker is 6'4 so 1/2 inch taller than prime Foreman. Kubrat Pulev is 6'4. So Joshua, Wilder, Lucas Browne and coke head Tyson Fury are taller than Foreman? Yep that makes Foreman so much smaller than the "top" fighters of the day. I should also mention there were various guys who were around 6'5 to 6'6 in the 70's as well.

 

Right now, like I said 6'3.5" @230 is a SMALL hw.
Wlad 6'5"
Aj 6'6"
DW 6'7"
Fury 6'9" ?
Aj and DW are the only 2 that matter because no one outside of those 2 are having any successful run as hw champ. If a huge shot removes either from their titles, they will immediately win the rematch.

6'3" 230 lb Haye is considered very small.
Small doesn't mean tiny, relax no one is bashing on the crude sloppy and slow foreman. Just stating the facts, he couldn't ever fight like he did in the 70's today, hell, he couldn't in the 90's

 

Nooooo, 6' 3" 230 lb wouldn't be considered a small HW, what you're saying is that size will give you the win. Let me give you some facts:
Eddie Chambers 6' 1"
Alexander Vladimirovich Povetkin 6' 2"
Lamon Tajuan Brewster 6' 2"
Corrie Sanders 6' 4"
Hasim Shariff Rahman 6' 2 1/2"
Oliver McCall 6' 2"

Stop making things up, Foreman won an Olympic gold medal and fought the best in the golden era. He would trounce all of the boxers above.

 

Stop trolling, size helps but will not give you an automatic win.

 

And all these guys are neither HOF nor ATG candidates but fairly mediocre HW contenders. Just like Foreman would be if you put him in a time machine and transported him into today's HW scene.

 

Klitschko 6'6
AJ 6'6
Wilder 6'7
Fury 6'7.5?
Price 6'9

Do any of these fighters possess good chins?
How many of them like to trade? Yeah, I understand they're usually taller so would like to use their jabs and range, but how good are they tearing it up?

Luis Ortiz is currently ranked 1 in boxrec, the guy is like 6'2-3'. You saying he can hang in there with Big George?

At the end of the day, a light punching CW like Steve Cunningham heavily knocked down Tyson Fury and a 45 year old (in the 90's) George Foreman knocked Michael Moorer out with a right hand that travelled less than 12 inches. Russian giants like Dimitrenko get bounced around by fighters such as Parker, who in turn can narrowly beat athletes in the mould of Andy Ruiz Jr.

 

W. Klitschko 6' 6"
KTFO by Ross Puritty 6' 3"
KTFO by Corrie Sanders 6' 4"
KTFO by Lamon Brewster 6' 2"

V. Klitschko 6' 7"
Loss to Chris Byrd 6' 1 1/2"
Loss to Lennox Lewis 6' 5"

The two best HW's in the past 10 years lost to smaller HW's, now please tell me why George Foreman wouldn't have a chance. These are facts.

If you want to go by size here's a great example, size doesn't make you win automatically.
Nikolai Sergeyevich Valuev 7'
Loss to David Haye 6' 3"
Loss to Ruslan Shamilevich Chagaev 6' 1"

 

You are misinterpreting what I wrote. I didn't say Foreman would have a chance to KO Klitschko. I said there the probability that Foreman would DOMINATE today's heavyweight scene like he did in the 70s is slim to none.

Purrity, Sanders, Brewster managed to beat Klitschko once, however, they were far from ruling the division. Just like Foreman would be unable to rule this era, he'd be somewhere between other mediocre contenders. Unlike Foreman's reign in the 70s!

 

You're contradicting yourself, you're saying Puritty, Sanders and Brewsters were mediocre and Foreman would be mediocre. Guess what, those mediocre fighters KTFO one of the best big HW's in recent years and Foreman never lost to a mediocre fighter when he was on top.

I get it, Foreman isn't your favorite fighter but you should stop saying he would be a mediocre fighter in this era.