Re: 1973 George Foreman smokes EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!
I know that everyone knows that the young Foreman was a deadly puncher, no doubt about it but he had one glaring weakness that his handlers were too lazy to work on. It was his endurance. I guess they were of the adage that if something isn't broke then don't fix it. The best muscle cars in the world need tuneups. George needed more coaching and more roadwork as depicted by the Ali loss. When George made his comeback his ability and not just his power even with all those fighters that didn't seem to have a chance with him served as a classroom until he won that coveted title. If he had the smarts he displayed as an older fighter in his youth, it would have been a long reign. One thing more, the guys at the top of the heavyweight division today have nothing on that young naive Foreman.
Re: 1973 George Foreman smokes EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!
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Big George would knock Tyson out about 2 minutes earlier than he knocked the living lights out of Smokin Joe. Tyson had a great great chin, but not as great as Joe Frazier.
Tyson was far more elusive and punched from angles that the bigger men could not see. Tyson was a quality boxer, who punched with speed and venom. Totally different animal to Frasier.
Totally, I hate the Frazier/Tyson comparisons really. It's a lazy connection.
I agree.
They both had similar physical builds & they both moved their heads a lot, but apart from that, they're different beasts entirely.
The right comparison for Tyson is, of course, the man D'amato modeled him on. Dempsey.
100% correct.
Tyson himself has said this.
He even copied Dempsey's 'soup bowl' hairstyle at one point in his career; that's how much he modelled himself on Dempsey.
