Who goes 40-0 (37) the way Foreman did?

Maybe I miscounted. Yap did it again. 120 seems correct, making it exactly avr. 3 rounds/fight!
Good work with Wilder! I mentioned him in another thread along with Tyson.

 

Counted Tyson twice. Believe it or not, he got until Spinks included (prime) exactly 120 rounds too. Thats 3.5 rounds/opponent.

You can countdown for the Wilder comment stating how bad his opp. was, avaraging that accomplishment within 40 wins....

 

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Oh there we're a couple of threads about him lately, this and that, how awful he was.
So I asked myself how awful he was in a direct comp.
Seemed he was a H2H ATG puncher in his prime, only Tyson and Wilder next to hin.

 

Its often just the way storys are expressed, not the substance of the debate. Better a proper luridness, than a lackluster nod-debate. Fine then!

To be honest, I think he´s overrated H2H too and I was curious to hear arguments against his accomplishments in a direct comp.

My argument would be:

You have an very agressive fighter, who possessed the chin*power plus size over most of his victims, to simply get away with alot of flaws. I see Frazier eventually easier to push over than moving Norton and Chuvalo. Chuvalo certainly proved raw power.
But the way he fought, wouldn´t work the same way against bigger fellows like Wilders and Tysons opposition for example. So I see him to unpolished against

a) raw power coming back at him with that open style (for example I disagree the way he´s favored againast Tyson, Ibeabuchi or Tua)
b) movers like Tucker, Biggs, Thomas, Maskaev, Tubbs etc.

I don´t think he´d make the 3 rounds/fighter in Wilders feet. But to be honest, I´m not sure I see Tyson doing either. But the difference isn´t that big, he´d go pretty far with alot of KOs too.