Comments Thread For: George Foreman: Klischko Was Afraid To Engage Haye

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Former heavyweight champion and hall of fame legend, George Foreman, doesn't expect unified champion Wladimir Klitschko to gain the recognition as being one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all-time. During a recent appearance on Houston's 1430 AM Sports Rap show with Ralph Cooper, Foreman was critical of Klitschko's fighting style and said the star fighter from Ukraine was far too defensive, always protects his chin and never takes chances.

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[Ray*]

Wlad is a defensive boxer, this is a revelation....

[mushahadeen]

Wlad is a defensive boxer, this is a revelation....

guy on a message board criticizes an All-Time Great boxer's analysis...

[Medved]

guy on a message board criticizes an All-Time Great boxer's analysis...

Boxer = great trainer?

Im a go hire Berto or Pwill to train me and give analasys. Wlad beats Foreman.

[FeFist]

guy on a message board criticizes an All-Time Great boxer's analysis...

He's not criticising Foreman's analysis he is saying the comment isn't newsworthy.

[uoykcuf]

Thats funny, because it seemed like Wlad was the pressure fighter pushing the action while Haye was the one on his backfoot throwing wild haymakers hoping to get lucky. So what did Foreman want Wlad to do? Let Haye tee off on him? These are big guys even if Haye is a natural Cruiserweight, he should know that if you let your opponent tee off on you that you could end up like Foreman on the canvas.

[edgarg]

I'm not surprised at Foreman's gabble. He's much better at selling grills than he is at giving boxing analyses. He boosts up Liston because he himself tried to pattern himself after his hero Liston the illiterate "leg-breaker" gangster. He boosts up Frazier, because he himself beat Frazier so easily. Which means he's saying that HE... "Big" George, would slaughter Klitschko. He wouldn't of course, it's just talk, and he never had the skills. And actually, in this boxing era "Big" George would really only be "Little" George..... Klirschko would likely beat him up badly, with Foreman hardly being able to lay his usual ponderous bludgeon anyhwere near him.

Besides, I am always a bit hesitant about believing a fighter who not only hears voices in his head, but also, even though a devout Christian, believes in witchdoctors...... Of course maybe he wasn't so devout at that time, but he certainly heard "messages from above".......... He himself has even mentioned it several times, and seems to think it's NORMAL.

I'll let others decide.......

[Pugilistic™]

Wlad doesn't engage with anyone and it works for him. That's his style. He was more on the front foot against Haye though.

Haye doesn't engage either, especially against Wlad he didn't anyway.

[D4thincarnation]

Wlad feared Haye's power and didn't take any risks. Just jabbed only threw the right a few times in the fight.

Both Haye and Wlad were very cautious, but at least Haye was going for the KO.

But this is how Wlad fights all of his fight and only opens up wants his opponents are exhausted and their concentration has gone.

[Hitman932]

A young George Foreman was a lot of fun to watch, but lets look at the facts.

A prime Foreman relied on his physical size and strength in an era of smaller men. At his peak he was a hair over 6'3 and between 215 and 220 pounds.

David Haye lists at 6'3 and weights in about 5-10 pounds less than the young Foreman.

Let's not also forget that Foreman was completely outboxed and defeated by what would have been a modern day Cruiserweight in Jimmy Young. I rank Wlad quite a bit higher than Young.

Foreman has always been critical of guys who are anything other than face first brawlers with no regard for defense. That is what he was, and that's what he had an easy time beating. The guys who boxed him took him to school and he didn't like it then and he doesn't like it now.

Klitschko would most likely jab Foreman and keep him at bay and let him tire himself out in a less artistic way than Ali did it. Foreman couldn't be ruled out, but it's actually one of the hypothetical historical fights that I think would suit Wladimir best.

As far as fights that would be awesome to see. How about Vitali vs a young Foreman?