Tyson Fury Versus George Foreman's competition?

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  1. ThatOne

    ThatOne Boxing Addict Full Member

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    How do we see this going?
     
  2. Glass City Cobra

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    -Well, Fury's not beating Ali or prime Holyfield.

    -Frazier it depends on the ref. If he's allowed to just constantly spam jabs and grabs combined with his Kronk style, he wears poor Frazier down with his immense weight and frustrates him with his height/reach winning a very boring decision or stops Frazier by the 9-10th round. If the ref actually penalizes excessive clinching, I'd still favor Fury, but it would be much more competitive.

    -Norton, Moorer, and Young could be competitive bouts, but I see Fury pulling off the win in those matches if he's in shape. If he ****s around getting overconfident or isn't at his best, they may pull upsets.

    -He should comfortably beat guys like Lyle, Morrison, Cooney, Chuvalo, Briggs, etc. They're roughly on the same level as Whyte/Chisora with some similarities in their styles and abilities. Fury probably doesn't lose more than 3-4 rounds tops unless he gets dropped. Fury either wins a very clear decision, or he might stop some of them. Fury's just too big, durable, skilled, and elite to lose to that crowd outside a very freak 1/100 punchers chance or a bad cut stoppage.

    -Alex Stewart, Savarese, Schulz, Cooper, Qawi, Peralta, Ledoux, etc should all be pieces of cake for Fury.
     
  3. ikrasevic

    ikrasevic Who is ready to suffer for Christ (the truth)? Full Member

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    I can't say for other HW champions that they had two peaks, but Tyson Fury's career is like that. One peak is a fight with Wlad and the other is Wilder 2. If one of those two peaks was going up against Foreman's competition, IMO he would beat them all; he would also beat Zaire Ali. I can't claim that Muhammad Ali would have won in 1967 (what a fight that would have been).
     
  4. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    Fury might have beaten all of the including the men Foreman lost to. Muhammad Ali in 1974 was as fast or as mobile as the Ali of old. And trying to overcome that massive height and reach difference to land regularly would be hard. Evander and jimmy were too small.
     
  5. Barrf

    Barrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What kind of ref? If it's a ref who doesn't break up clinches, I think Fury has a decent shot of taking out all of them, even Ali and Holyfield. I don't know how a decent version of Fury is defeated if the ref allows that.

    A more strict ref? He definitely takes a loss to at least one of Ali and Holyfield.
     
  6. BCS8

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    Well first we need to deal with the facts, as posted in General, that Fury is a True Travelling Fighting Man and that no man born of his mother can beat Tyson Fury. Do with those facts what you will.