Arreola vs Prime Foreman

[KostyaTszyu44]

there is a reason why ali didn't give foreman a rematch.

becasue he ko'd him and made him look dumb??

[lefthook2daliva]

I voted for Foreman by UD but I could see him winning by KO as more likely. The UD is basically a worst case scenario lol

lol u just wanted to **** up my post hahaha bastard

[hollister]

Ali did technically KO Foreman, but it wasn't really a KO as Foreman was simply exhausted from putting everything he had into punches that many times didn't hit their true target. Add to that that Foreman had to have been ahead on the cards at the time he was knocked down and you have a rematch that could very possibly have gone against Ali. I'm not saying that that's the reason Ali never rematched Foreman, but it's a possibility.

[hollister]

lol u just wanted to **** up my post hahaha bastard

Lol sorry about that

[TheGreatA]

Ali did technically KO Foreman, but it wasn't really a KO as Foreman was simply exhausted from putting everything he had into punches that many times didn't hit their true target. Add to that that Foreman had to have been ahead on the cards at the time he was knocked down and you have a rematch that could very possibly have gone against Ali. I'm not saying that that's the reason Ali never rematched Foreman, but it's a possibility.

The scorecards were 70-67, 69-66, 68-66 for Ali.

[lefthook2daliva]

Ali did technically KO Foreman, but it wasn't really a KO as Foreman was simply exhausted from putting everything he had into punches that many times didn't hit their true target. Add to that that Foreman had to have been ahead on the cards at the time he was knocked down and you have a rematch that could very possibly have gone against Ali. I'm not saying that that's the reason Ali never rematched Foreman, but it's a possibility.

Agreed. I've never heard George cry about it either. Every time I hear him talk about that fight he's very deferential toward Ali. Big George is a class act.

[hollister]

Then those judges were really on Ali's nuts lol
He barely even made a fight of it until the last couple of rounds.
Even he said he was afraid of George actually making it to the end of the fight.
That says volumes about how he thought the fight was going.

[TheGreatA]

The scorecards were 70-67, 69-66, 68-66 for Ali.

Foreman took a year off from boxing (aside from the Foreman vs 4 opponents circus), looked rusty in his comeback fight against Lyle in 1976, had a couple of tune-up fights against Joe Frazier, Scott LeDoux and Dino Dennis, lost to number 3 ranked contender Jimmy Young in 1977 and retired.

Then those judges were really on Ali's nuts lol
He barely even made a fight of it until the last couple of rounds.
Even he said he was afraid of George actually making it to the end of the fight.
That says volumes about how he thought the fight was going.

I thought Ali was winning it. He was the one doing most of the landing, Foreman was doing a lot of missing.

[ACHlLLES]

becasue he ko'd him and made him look dumb??

Foreman had an idiotic game-plan in the first fight, he basically lost that fight on his own. Idiot tired himself out, more then he was ko'd. Kind of what david haye did in the carl thompson fight, burned out his own stamina

[hollister]

Foreman took a year off from boxing (aside from the Foreman vs 4 opponents circus), looked rusty in his comeback fight against Lyle in 1976, had a couple of tune-up fights against Joe Frazier, Scott LeDoux and Dino Dennis, lost to number 3 ranked contender Jimmy Young in 1977 and retired.



I thought Ali was winning it. He was the one doing most of the landing, Foreman was doing a lot of missing.

I know he landed the cleaner shots hands down, but he wasn't even coming close to making the fight. The sheer disparity of punches thrown should have won Foreman rounds, it's not as if he was dancing around and making Foreman miss, he was laying on the ropes getting pounded lol