Seeing how Foreman ran out of gas against Ali and then again against Jimmy Young, I ask you this: if the ref had not stopped the fight, do you think Foreman would have punched himself out and been stopped by the always-fresh, iron-chinned George Chuvalo? If you listen to the commentary of the fight, you hear the guy wondering if Chuvalo is trying to make Foreman punch himself out. Maybe he was. But would he have pulled it off?
These topics are pretty funny, actually. "Rate George Chuvalo the human being as a punching bag. What pain caaan he endure?" To answer the question: **** man, i don't know.
Ehhhmmmm........actually, they fought in 1970. Foreman might have been a bit winded by the third round, but probably still had something left in the tank when the ref pulled him off Chuvalo.
I remember Chuvalo seeming dismayed at the stoppage and saying he was just waiting for an opening. If he wasn't going down from that onslaught he wasn't ever going down from anyone, could he have survived to stop a tiring Foreman later? I don't think so because Foreman had enough left in the tank to do the same thing the next round and a ref would have been still forced to stop it for Chuvalo's safety.
What if it was a fight to the finish? I think Foreman stops him. but we have seen bigger comebacks under fight to the finish rules.
Chuvalo fought like a much more well rounded Homer Simpson, especially with the whole football helmet inside the skull toughness. My first instinct is that Foreman would've eventually knocked him out anyway. Then again, the dude could take an insane amount of punishment, so who knows?
That was what everyone was expecting in 1970 at Madison Square Graden. But Foreman was nailing George Chuvalo with everything he threw. The ref had no choice but to stop the bout. Chuvalo was getting 'rock-n-rolled'.
...Personally, I believe Ali could've gone on to stop Holmes if allowed to. Has the OP done that thread yet?
Chuvalo himself has said that it was a premature stoppage and that Foreman was getting winded. I personally see this as one who possibly could have gone the other way had it not been prematurely stopped. Foreman rocked Chuvalo with a big right, but after that he hardly connected. Chuvalo was in a good defensive shell and almost all Foreman's blows were glancing off. It looked much more brutal than it really was. To be fairr to the ref, I do think Chuvalo's cornerman throwed in the towel as well. But I think it was stopped prematurely, personally.