An interesting quote from George foreman

[Boogie Nights]

I always thought this was interesting what he said, it was during the broadcast of Klitschko vs Peter fight, in the 5th round, after Peter knocks klitshcko down with a rabbit punch

George Foreman: "Show him that you can fight if you're Klitschko, dont worry about that skill and boxing anymore, this sport doesnt respect that"

Fascinating analysis, i truly mean it in a good way.

i understand that Foreman may have felt a littl frustrated for the fact after Wlad got knocked down, he still kept clinching Samuel and not fighting. that must have pissed George off and he said it without any real meaning

or maybe

on some level he really did truly mean it. i mean some fans who appreciate the floyd mayweather type fighter would call that statement an absurb bull****, but there are also cold blooded, violence hunrgy individuals like myself who find meaning in it. Because in reality, there will be some guys who wont give a **** about your ability, they will engage to kill you not minding any of that flashy **** at all.

im sure ill get some contrasting opinions

thoughts?

[AntonTheMeh]

maybe cause he didn't learn jack **** about strategy till he was a dam geezer.

[Drunk Punch]

It is interesting and everyone has their views on boxing. For example I hated the Calzaghe/Hopkins fight yet I know other people that (from a purely technical view) think it was a great contest, a chess game between two opposing styles.

At the end of the day I think most people (notice I used 'most') pay to see KOs not skillful points decisions. I could be wrong...

[TheGreatA]

Foreman was a different kind of fighter.

He has his obvious preferences and bias, he gets into the fights more than Merchant and Lampley mostly do and he admits this by saying that he is sometimes embarrassed at the things he says when he is commentating...

Foreman was a huge puncher with a granite chin and he also had the attitude that he would never back down from a fight, this is not the case with Wladimir Klitschko.

If Klitschko went in there to slug with Peter not to mention a guy like Lyle after being dropped two times he would've suffered a Sanders.
You can watch what happens to Wladimir if he goes right back to wildly slug it out with a puncher when staggered, right in that fight...

[Boogie Nights]

maybe cause he didn't learn jack **** about strategy till he was a dam geezer.

well yeah, in his youth he was a crude puncher, and won most of his fights on power alone without any real technique

he did empathize the importance of a good jab later on in his career.

[Boogie Nights]

It is interesting and everyone has their views on boxing. For example I hated the Calzaghe/Hopkins fight yet I know other people that (from a purely technical view) think it was a great contest, a chess game between two opposing styles.

At the end of the day I think most people (notice I used 'most') pay to see KOs not skillful points decisions. I could be wrong...

i didnt respect what hopkins did in that fight at all. in fact on some level i hated hopkins for going out the way he did, there were instances in that fight where i wanted to take a hammer from my garage and and **** my tv up

especially talking the way he did before the fight. about Joe's dad stepping in to end the slaughter....HA, what a joke

but if im watching a fight, when the fight reaches that moment, where you gotta show that you're admirable in the eyes of the public, then you gotta take it

i mean ****, you heard balboa. "it's not how hard you hit, it's how hard you can get hit, and keep coming forward, this is how winning is done."

stallone knows jack about boxing, but i agree with the screenplay

[Boogie Nights]

Foreman was a different kind of fighter.

He has his obvious preferences and bias, he gets into the fights more than Merchant and Lampley mostly do and he admits this by saying that he is sometimes embarrassed at the things he says when he is commentating...

Foreman was a huge puncher with a granite chin and he also had the attitude that he would never back down from a fight, this is not the case with Wladimir Klitschko.

If Klitschko went in there to slug with Peter not to mention a guy like Lyle after being dropped two times he would've suffered a Sanders.
You can watch what happens to Wladimir if he goes right back to wildly slug it out with a puncher when staggered, right in that fight...

wlad and foreman in their primes are 2 different fighters. not every fighter's mentality is the same. in fact if you say something like this to floyd he would probably would want to admit you to mental institution. that makes sense.

but do you respect things like that. i know winning is important, and it's the only thing, and you gotta do what works.

but to me your heart is shown where you do the kind of things that foreman did after getting knocked down by Lyle.

not getting up, clinching with the guy, and getting the moral victory of going the distance and outpointing him

[TheGreatA]

wlad and foreman in their primes are 2 different fighters. not every fighter's mentality is the same. in fact if you say something like this to floyd he would probably would want to admit you to mental institution. that makes sense.

but do you respect things like that. i know winning is important, and it's the only thing, and you gotta do what works.

but to me your heart is shown where you do the kind of things that foreman did after getting knocked down by Lyle.

not getting up, clinching with the guy, and getting the moral victory of going the distance and outpointing him

I think Wladimir did a good job anyway and even wobbled Peter in the 12th round. He clinched a lot but he got away with it, so did Peter with the rabbit punches.

It wasn't something like Lyle vs Foreman but you rarely get anything like that. First it was Lyle coming back from a beating, then Foreman, then Lyle, then Foreman again!

Wladimir outpointing Peter after being knocked down was far better than his mental and physical breakdowns against Puritty, Sanders and Brewster, showed improvement.


Here's the great Foreman vs Lyle war.
Lyle also showed great heart against Shavers when he was all but out in the 2nd round and came back to KO Shavers in the 6th.

[Boogie Nights]

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