Comments Thread For: Foreman: We Had Serious Talks, Mike Tyson Didn't Want To Fight

[TexasCowBoy]

Tyson has a cartoon on adult swim that comes on Sunday nights ...I've seen most of the episodes

[StefanYHU]

These 'Old George beats Tyson' convos just reinforce how fascinated boxing fans are with 'power' over everything else.

Folks fantasize about George landing some (slow) miracle uppercut that magically KO's Tyson, a guy who's shown an iron chin his entire career. George would have tried that isht one time, watched Mike Tyson pivot and hit him with famous hook-to-ribs-same-hand-uppercut that even gives-no-fuggs Tyson could still throw, and then proceeded to watch Foreman go Bonecrusher Smith hugfest-cash-check mode.
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For all his big talk, Foreman didn't really want that work.

What planet are you on? Go back and watch how easily foreman blasted joe fraizer onto his backside, over and over again.

Tyson was the most exciting fighter of his generation, but realistically his generation was poor and those fighters who were great, Holyfield, Lewis etc were able to have their way with him.

Foreman stops Tyson just like fraizer, easily.

[Travycat]

At that age, that Tyson would've finished George in 4 or 5. I really can't see anyone being able to take those kinds of punches--and at the rate he threw combinations. There are certain versions of young Mike that I don't think Ali or anyone could've beaten. That's just my opinion, but I think there were 3 or 4 years where he was just the best ever because he stalked you down, you couldn't avoid him, and no one could take the shots. He was an anomaly.

[Sweet Jones]

What planet are you on? Go back and watch how easily foreman blasted joe fraizer onto his backside, over and over again.

Tyson was the most exciting fighter of his generation, but realistically his generation was poor and those fighters who were great, Holyfield, Lewis etc were able to have their way with him.

Foreman stops Tyson just like fraizer, easily.

So, you're using the performance of a 24 year old George Foreman to assess how the 44 year old fatter, slower Foreman would do in a fight with still-World Class Mike Tyson, yet have the gall to ask me what planet I'm from?

Yeah, um, ok.

[Roscoe337]

Fits? Smith grappled at Tyson for 12 rounds except one punch at the last second. Scorecards were 120-106, 119-107 and 119-107 for Tyson.

Ruddock was considered a beast in 1991, but even a diminished version of Tyson beat him rather comfortably, knocking him down a total of four times if I remember correctly, and in spite of a couple of seriously hard punches taken by Iron Mike in the first fight.

The point is: Tyson could not get rid of Smith and it was frustrating to him, the fight was not close but it was obvious Smith presented a problem because of his size and strength. You need to watch the Razor fights again, he knocked him down but in both fights Ruddock came on in the end and had Tyson in a couple of bad situations...Tyson was getting tired and and Ruddock coming on.

Scorecards often don't tell everything about a fight, neither do punch stat numbers. The point is that in both cases Tyson was uncomfortable due to the size difference and one can ascertain that Foreman's size, both versions, would be a factor in the fight.

[Willy Wanker]

I think Tyson would have won if they fought back then, but prime Foreman vs. prime Tyson is one of my favorite fantasy matches to think about. That would have been an interesting match up and Tyson wouldn't be able to just walk through him like he more than likely would have done to the older, heavier version of Big George.