What was the better show of force: Foreman's demolition of Norton or Lewis poleaxing of Golota?

I'd say Lewis squashing Golota, because it only took 1 round instead of 2.

 

Two talented top contenders were quickly destroyed in those matches, but at the end of the day, one of them is clearly greater than the other. Norton is in the hall of fame, and golota isn't.
So i have to go with foreman's victory over norton

 

Brewster's demolition job of Golota was better just because of the dark cloud around Lewis' win due to Golota's claims about a shot of anesthetic gone bad. It's hard to take that claim seriously because it's from Golota's camp, but they had no excuses that I know of for Brewster.

 

The real question here is which knockout was weaker here people.

 

I actually feel comfortable to say that they’re close enough to be considered equal - particularly if we isolate to the windows in which they unleashed their max. force punches.

Lennox’s demolition was faster but Norton boxed a far better first round in his own right vs Foreman than Golota did vs Lewis.

Foreman simply remained cool and saw Ken off shortly thereafter and it didn’t take a lot of power shots to do so - much like Lewis.

 

Well, a lot of people consider Ken an ATG while Golota is nowhere near that classification...

 

H2h they're both solid against good boxers with limited power and grade A trash against power punchers.

 

In terms of a 'show of force', there's not a whole lot in it. But Norton presented a greater challenge to Foreman than Golota did to Lewis.

So, Foreman's was better, in my opinion.

 

Carl Williams battled Larry Holmes to a controversial loss and did it without punching Holmes in the balls a bunch. I think that gets ignored too much. Its not just the damage itself with crotch shots, it also makes it harder to fight because you're worried about getting hit down there so it throws your whole defense and mindset off. I think a lot of fighters could fight greats to a standstill if they peppered in enough crotch shots.

That said, I said Lennox over Golota. my reasons.

Golota is much bigger. So from a physics standpoint, I think it shows more force was necessary.

At the times they occured, Golota had never been knocked out and had just gone 2 hard fights with Bowe where he was winning on the cards both times. Adding that layer of the Lennox vs Bowe rivalry and Lennox just obliterating the guy who had been outboxing (albeit with dirty tactics) Bowe and I think it's a really big statement and show of force.

I guess I can see how maybe the Golota win ages poorly for Lennox because Golotas career after that had some real low points but Golota was a very very good fighter who was capable of being great at times. nobody else steamrolled him like that until years later.

 

If we exclude the charisma, and the aura that surrounded George Foreman at the time (1973-74), and if we do not look at the factor that Ken Norton is ATG. So let's just ask ourselves: "what is a better demonstration of force?". Then we would not ask such a question, but "Levis Vs. Golota" or "Tyson Vs. Spinks" (in both cases the fight lasted a little over 90 seconds).

 

Lol, I see you’ve claimed victory over the Great Seamus and have appropriated his avatar.

 

At the time, or in retrospect?