Or would you say Sonny Liston? Who was the most terrifying fighter of all time?
Or would you say Sonny Liston? Who was the most terrifying fighter of all time?
There have been several scary fuckers in this sport. Tyson, Foreman, Liston to name just a few. The fighter who intimidated his opponents the most, though, was Joe Louis.
Outside the heavyweights, there are Duran, Hagler, Hearns, Harry Greb, and the late great - and scary nutcase - Stanley Ketchell.
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Tyson was smaller than George so I would say Foreman.
Tyson was probably wide as he was tall.
I personally would be afraid of a crazy Ike.
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Easily Tyson I'd think. Never knew if he'd try to put your jaw in the back of your neck, break an arm or chew on your eyeball or bend you over the stool. Then the pacing. Foreman was menacing but low key, he'd stand stock still at refs instructions and just look a guy dead in the eyes, back and forth.
Tyson was like a pit bull, if he snapped there was no saving you.
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I would argue that whichever one happened to be across from you at that particular moment was/is the most terrifying.
I think it was more a case of would you rather have your head ripped off a la Mike Tyson or would you rather look at your silent and frightening to tombstone a la George Foreman
At their primes they BOTH were intimidating. But NO ONE- aside from Ali- wanted to fight Foreman. NO ONE. People knew they could lose fighting Tyson, but post-Tucker, people felt as if they could have survived the encounter. Not so with Foreman. It was sudden death. And most of them knew it. Ali was afraid too, but Ali's sheer will put him over the top and his experience with beating Liston gave him that notion that BOXING could beat BRUTE FORCE at any time in the ring.
This is why Ali was and still is THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!
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]I agree with 99% of that about Muhammad Ali I mean. Ali won that fight with Foreman because he was allowed to get away with pushing down Foreman's head, leaning on his neck dozens of times per round, and grabbing incessantly. Also and pastimes fights would have been stopped if a fighter just laid on the ropes like a bum and took hundreds of shots to the kidneys. Those fights would have been stopped. Ali had blood in his urine for three and a half weeks after that fight and had a contused kidney and a partially perforated spleen. If that's called winning than I am a monkey's uncle.
The referee didn't do George Foreman any favors that night either. And if you look those ropes were a little bit loose which really helped Ali lean back a good three feet into the first row of Spectators while keeping his feet planted on the canvas. Very hard to hit that Target.
Forman was the only person who all he did not give a rematch to either by the way. I would say George Foreman wisdom more terrifying between foreman and Tyson
George Foreman could still knock out half of the boxers
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