Gerorge Foreman: Wlad won't leave much of a legacy in boxing

[fitefanSHO]

He has every belt there is except one, what else do people want?

For him to finally fight the #1 contender?

Imagine any other heavyweight champion never fighting the #1 contender.

People who be losing their minds about it...

[rajul]

if wlad beat toney he would finally get the respect

[ChopperRead]

Funny a Prime Wlad would kill Foreman in the ring, stfu you fat midget

Foreman threw wide punches like Arthur Abraham does. Ali came straight down the pipe and nailed him.

[ChopperRead]

Foreman took part in Wlad's ring entrance in the last fight, he sat on the bench with Vitali, so I don't think he hates them. I think he's just trying to draw attention to the difference b/t the way they fight now and the way he and other heavyweights fought in his era. Kinda being a **** to give himself a compliment, thats all.

Vitali fights nothing like Wlad, though. Can't generalize.

I agree that Wlad can be too cautious. He should have stepped it up more in the later stages of the Haye fight.

Foreman says different things depending on who he's talking to, though.

[ChopperRead]

if wlad beat toney he would finally get the respect

Is that a joke? You mean the fat, slurring, eyes-rolling-in-his head, permanently punch-drunk James Toney?

Yeah, he'd get tons of respect for beating him.

[ChopperRead]

Personally, I think "Big" George has been irreversibly marked by his Griller blurbs and his boxing output has suffered accordingly. I can't imagine ANY fighter in history (and my tops are Jack Johnson and Mike Tyson) walking through A Klitschko attack. Anyone would thing, listening to Foreman, that Klitschko dances away from his opponent around the ring just putting forth an occasional "peck'

If you look at some of his earlier fights, you will see a fighter with an unequalled attack wiht a variety of punches, fast, brutally heavy, and a wide variety, all picture perfect, and mostly impossible to avoid. As for his later fights, he fights as expediency dictates. The Haye fight was more important than any other since Peter 1, as it was the much desired means of achieving their lifelong dream, all 4 belts, to show his deathbed father, who died a couple of days later.

He just couldn't throw that away just by making a wrong move, from a false sense of bravado, and to please George Foreman. I think that the interviewer should have asked George why, after his once in a lifetime lucky KO of Moorer, a kind of Tarver-Jones, punch, he never fought a single live body for the next 3 years until losing to Briggs.....BRIGGS.............

George has always been a bit two-faced, so this comment is no big surprise.

[F l i c k e r]

All he has to do is fight in America.

Every great boxer has fought in the capital of boxing.

If he stops fighting in germany and come to vegas then it wouldn't be that way.

[fitefanSHO]

Wlad can be too cautious. He should have stepped it up more in the later stages of the Haye fight.

He couldn't.

IMO, he was worried about gassing like he has in the past and falling apart, again...like he has in the past.

[ChopperRead]

He couldn't.

IMO, he was worried about gassing like he has in the past and falling apart, again...like he has in the past.

I don't think so -- he's just a cautious fighter now. Admittedly Haye was not making it easy to land anything. But there were spots where Wlad could have let his hands go and didn't.

[SirTomJones]

I like big George and find this a little odd.