Tyson Fury vs George Foreman

I'd like to see Fury try that leaning **** on Foreman. Especially Old Foreman who was built like a power lifter with freaky strength. He'd shove him right off.

 

Fury UD

 

Wlad was scared to engage and Wilder was looking for one bomb at a time.

Foreman would be applying pressure. If the rather limited Wallin had success and took away a couple of rounds on top of cutting Fury, Foreman would be much more of a problem.

George had underrated footwork and set up his punches nicely, zero fear and always came forward. You will not find a single fight where Foreman was doing anything else other than coming forward and trying to knock his guy out. Fury isn't 6 foot Jimmy Young shelling up. He's a massive target. George would have a hard time missing.

 

I doubt Foreman is stronger than Fury. A 256 lb Fury made Klitschko look weak in the clinch.

 

Can Fury lean on the ropes and let Foreman bang away like a doughnut for eight rounds? You'd like to think so.

 

You severely underestimate the size and strength of Fury. A man who described Wlad "weak as anything" (in his corner during the fight)

Taking away his massive size it's really the stamina of him that people can't deal with. He's basically changed the meta in boxing for close range clinch work. If you can't use your feet for 12 rounds Fury is going to get on top of you at some point and wrestle the life out of you.

Wilder is an explosive power house and can whip guys off him in a clinch and Fury manhandled him, Fury manhandles everybody. He's a 270 pound gorilla. He'd easily match older George in a clinch and push him back if he wanted, not that he would need to it would be a simple jib and jab job.

The thing with Ali Foreman was people underestimated the size Ali had put on with age. He was about as big as Foreman with his age bulk.

 

He wouldn't need to, Fury isn't a headhunter like Ali & even with his bigger size can move better than aged Ali.

 

My point is that even the most basic tactics effected by an old man were enough to best Foreman.

 

I'm assuming prime for both. It goes one of two ways either Fury keeping distance and just outpointing winning a boring and close UD.
Or George get's to Fury hurts him and takes him out. Fury can't hurt George but Geoge would be more effective at landing than Wilder and would put pressure on Fury that he's not faced before.

 

You're biased.

Ali was 32 and took a beating to take Foreman out. If it wasnt for Alis unmatched mental toughness George would have walked through him.

 

Shoving around a 5"11, 215 pound man is different from shoving around a 6'7, 275 pound man. Foreman likely posses more physically strength but Fury is the far bigger man and strong himself. Even Wlad struggled to outmuscle him

 

I do not know which point is crazier, Fury moved better than Ali in Zaire, or that the extremely smart & advanced tactile by Ali there were "basic".
Ali showed great & surprising strategy, from the lead rights to formidable endurance in the rope a dope to landing well when he unshelled to superb wrestling...

"Old man"? Ali was 32, Fury is older than him now-& less conditioned than Ali was then.
If Ali, still one of the greatest ever through 1975, was an "old man" then, what is Tyson Fury, already a blubbery zombie?

 

The big problem for 'Big' George Foreman is that he is only the same size as Kevin Johnson.

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Ali was past prime, that's the point.
Choosing to get beaten up is not smart, regardless of how effective it was.
Not having an answer for it and allowing yourself to completely gas and get KOed doesn't say much for your ring IQ or intelligence in general.

I'm not picking a winner in these hypothetical match ups because I've never really given them much thought. I'm just countering and providing a degree of objectivity to the 'old fighter would definitely win' perspective that inevitably follows in these discussions from the guys that still wear flairs and think Elvis is current.

Biased towards who? I don't have a strong opinion (or any at all for that matter) on who would win in these fights as ( like I've noted above) I've never really given it thought.

 

Foreman was a strong and upright 6ft4 or so. Fury is around 6ft7 or 6ft8.

The difference between the two of them wouldn't be much different than it was between Foreman and Gerry Cooney. Quite possibly a similar result too.