Comments Thread For: George Foreman Wishes That He Faced Wladimir Klitschko

[Sheppirino]

Prime George beats Wlad. Old George beats neither brother. Vitali beats both versions of George. One of the things that impresses me about Vitali is his evasive defense. I think it would have given George fits.

[MarkMiner]

That would of been a huge fight. Don't think Wladimir Klitschko could of kept George Foreman off him for 12 rounds.

[bojangles1987]

While there's always that big punch chance, Foreman would almost certainly get knocked out brutally. He would have no chance to get inside on Wlad.

[joseph5620]

Big talk when it's far too late to do anything about it. George also says someone slipped him the mickey when he fought Ali. George says a lot of things.

When did you expect him to say anything about it? They are both from two different generations. Either way, Foreman has earned the right to say what he wants and that includes comments about your heroes.



And Wladimir made similar excuses after the first Brewster fight.

[NinjaMan!]

Wladimir-Foreman = Wladimir KO6 Mercer

Wladimir destroys any version of Foreman.

Not really guy Wlad has no chin.

[hweightblogger]

I noticed that too. He wanted no part of Vitali. Even big George is was a dwarf by todays standards.

• Prime George Foreman (median weight 217 lbs) would be Vitali Klitschkos BOTTOM-3 lightest opponent.
• Foreman II had 3 overlapping opponents with Wlad:
  Wladimir Klitschko vs Axel Schulz|W TKO8
  Wladimir Klitschko vs Everett Martin|W TKO8(23.08yro/34.8yro)
  Wladimir Klitschko vs Mark Young|W RTD2
  ---
  George Foreman vs Axel Schulz|W MD12
  George Foreman vs Everett Martin|W UD10
  George Foreman vs Mark Young|W TKO7
• At
  http://www.heavyweightblog.com/2490/...harder-puncher
  I analyzed a lot of other stats and Wlad is 1-2 punch classes ABOVE Foreman.
• Foreman (1970s) has KOed only 3 opponents (200+ lbs) in heavyweight world championships (212 lbs, 214 lbs, 196 lbs). That approximately sums up his record.

[hweightblogger]

And Wladimir made similar excuses after the first Brewster fight.

Link or it didn't happen.

[hweightblogger]

Foreman's power plus Wlad's shaky chin = Foreman KO4 Wlad Klitschko

You got it the other way around: Wlad's power plus Foreman's shaky chin.

[Larry the boss]

prime foreman with the fro kos wlad in under 3

[joseph5620]

Link or it didn't happen.

It happened genius. Let me know if you want any more.




On the night of April 10, 2004, Lamon Brewster had climbed off the floor in the fourth, and a round later was beating the piss out of Wladimir Klitschko when referee Robert Byrd intervened to take Klitschko into protective custody. Although Wladimir's performance was consistent with - indeed, redolent of -- his prior boxing history, a day later he and his camp were fanning the flames of a conspiracy theory, charging that the beaten fighter had been mysteriously drugged.A few years ago George Foreman recalled his reaction to his loss to Muhammad Ali in their 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" as one of the most shameful episodes of his boxing career. "By saying I'd been tricked or that my food might have been poisoned I detracted from Ali's victory," said Foreman. "The man beat me that night and I should have just given him credit for a great performance. Instead I was so embarrassed I started looking around for excuses."

Wladimir must not have been paying attention. After wilting before Brewster's fifth-round onslaught in their World Boxing Organization heavyweight title fight at the Mandalay Bay, the Ukrainian tried to alibi away his performance by claiming that his food had been tampered with, and trainer Emanuel Steward subsequently claimed that his fighter was suffering from "unusually high blood sugar.""It wasn't the water in Wladimir's eyes," said Brewster's promoter Don King a few days later. "It wasn't no soup he ate at the Mandalay Bay. It was Lamon Brewster's punches that knocked him out, THAT's what happened to Wladimir Klitschko."

On May 3, boxing attorney Judd Burstein undertook the representation of the Brothers Klitschko. Two days later, to great fanfare, Burstein posted a letter demanding a federal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Brewster-Klitschko fight, copies of which he sent to every media outlet on his rolodex.

Burstein must have coveted the Klitschko account badly. The circulation of the letter might make the younger Klitschko look like a crybaby, but it makes his lawyer look just plan silly.
The public release of Burstein's missive to Daniel G. Bogden, the United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, was accompanied by a press release which included this bizarre sentiment



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