Spinks v Foreman

[Spicoli]

Strictly going up until the Cooney fight, I give Spinks a solid shot if he had his nerve about him. Foreman was ponderous and straight mobile guys with pop with a Spinks experience could have a go. Foreman was wrestlin used up circus bears in a Qawi, Young and Bigfoot Martin, a couple of which were clocking him clean for his troubles.

It wasn't until the Holyfield fight we all stopped laughing so loud and in many ways he found himself in that one. Still styles make it....shortly after came Alex Stewart who was himself mocked for being afraid vs Tyson and owning a chin made of matchsticks but he out jabbed and hung with Big George all the way, reducing Foremans face to a mass of raw mashed hamburger meat in the process. Save for early kd it could have easliy gone his way.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

To be fair to Spinks, he got dropped from an uppercut to the solarplexus (gotta hurt more than an uppercut in the armpit!) and got back up to FIGHT.
Alot gets said about Spinks taking his time coming into the ring and all the speculation around that but I mean really and truly, once Sinks was in the ring, he was game... Fair play to him. So no, I don't really think Spinks being supposedly scared of Tyson has anything to do with Foreman because
A) Tyson was freakishly fast & ferocious
B) Foreman would of been slower and simpler... In comparison to an old Larry Holmes, let alone Iron Mike.
C) Spinks didn't set out to fight Tyson any differently to any other Heavyweight.

Also, wtf has Tysons 'fear' of Foreman got to do with anything? When was the last time you saw Michael Spinks fighting out of a peak-a-boo stance, making wide side-to-side head movement and working to get inside for 100% of the fight?
All things are relative, Tyson comes to you, spinks moves.
The amount of times I see that old 'fighter A, B, C' verse thrown around yet here we are again...

And yes Michael Spinks was a GREAT Lightheavyweight

[ICB]

Depends what George Foreman were on about here, i mean Jimmy Young who was small Heavyweight took George Foreman's best and outboxed him. I could see Michael Spinks maybe doing the same against that version of George Foreman.

[Master]

See posters are seeing it my way eventually, after getting over Spinks performance against Tyson people did see a decent enough fighter who moved well. I just remember the unanswered punches he hit Cooney with and wondered to myself what would happen if he landed those against Big George, when he was doing his comeback. I forgot that Alex Stewart did make Foreman’s face bruised up, also Briggs went the distance as did weak chinned slugger Tommy Morrison. So imagine what an active heavyweight version of Spinks would have done to old George Foreman.

[generalbulldog]

Spinks has a good shot at beating old Foreman but lets say the 1973 version of Big George? No chance in hell.