Comments Thread For: George Foreman had two legendary careers ? but which one was the greatest?

[JakeTheBoxer]

He was considered one of them.
I found it hard to believe he was the underdog vs Frazier 1
While the favorite vs Ali.
I think Joe was the only guy BG was not the fave to win.

MHO

He was underdog against Frazier, because Frazier beat Ali.

Than was Foreman a favorite against Ali, because Ali was already 32 and Foreman knocked out Frazier easily.

[TheProudLunatic]

He was underdog against Frazier, because Frazier beat Ali.

Than was Foreman a favorite against Ali, because Ali was already 32 and Foreman knocked out Frazier easily.

And Joe, from what I could find, was the only guy favored to beat BG
This tells me BG was considered top 3 guys of the div
To do what he did in his 2nd half is more unlikely.

MHO

[ShoulderRoll]

An entertaining guy, but not very skilled. Usyk would beat all guys like Lyle, Foreman and he would make it easy.

Stop trolling, man.

If Dubois could fold Usyk with a body shot what do you think George Foreman would do to him?

[JakeTheBoxer]

Stop trolling, man.

If Dubois could fold Usyk with a body shot what do you think George Foreman would do to him?

Nothing.

Have you ever seen Lyle -Foreman? Two sluggers with no defense?

This ancient fighters are often overrated. Only Ali was great. He took some losses, because he was very active and fought them all.

If Foreman is top 10 hw ever, than hw division sucks big time man.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Fury would eat Foreman alive. Foreman would be very small and slow compared to Fury. And as I said, Foreman blocked punches with his face, lol.

He would be Kownacki nowadays.

[LA_2_Vegas]

And then the HBO career too. He said a lot of circular stuff LOL - even when I was young I would realize that. But he was excitable and optimistic, and also had though opinions.

Some of the quotes that come to mind:

"Oscar is on his toes now, he's got the bounce, Oscar is a baaad man when he is on his toes!!" - he ALWAYS made such a big deal about that when calling Oscar's fights. He called a good amount during Oscar's prime. Again, I was young at the time, so I never really understood what he meant, until Oscar fought Trinidad and Vargas

"Never follow a puncher" - I don't know if people even agree with this, but he was big on that.

And one thing that I really loved was how he described the process of trying to get a KO, and failing. If a fighter had someone hurt and attempted to get a stoppage, but didn't succeed - he would say the fighter needed to "start the process" all over again. It couldn't be one punch that would end it at that point; he would only reach that point again by starting to frame it all over again. Definitely one of my favorite broadcasting thoughts from anyone.