Quote Originally Posted by ICB View Post
Quote Originally Posted by THE PHILOSOPHER View Post
Schultz was a terrible decision, why do u think foreman declined an immediate rematch?



Look how dejected and beat up foreman is afterwards, he knew he lost. It was bad that Schultz was given a title shot, but it was worse that he was denied the win after outscoring and outpunching George. Some ppl think Savarese got jobbed, too.

P.s No version of foreman beats vitali (only way vitali loses is on cuts or a feak injury!) Vitali hardly ever loses a round or get's dropped, foreman was dropped by featherfist jimmy young and journeyman ron lyle twice and was also outboxed on numerous



occasions by lesser men than klitschko! Does formen have a shot at knocking out vitali? 240/250lb men like Lennox, sanders and peter couldn't do so, So no!

He has a shot at younger wlad who had stamina and defense issues, but the older version beats him. Ppl like to bring up wlads 3 losses to inferior fighters, wlad has beaten far better men than the 3 men he lost to! Thing is both brewster and purrity were being totally outboxed by wlad before the stoppage, and in truth 2nd forman was struggling with lesser fighters than brewster and purrity, Foreman wins if and only if wlad gasses or makes a rookie mistake but other than that he loses! He's not outboxing WK. And the sanders that wlad, VK and rahman fought has a big chance over foreman.
He probably didn't take the rematch because he was old, and didn't have long left in boxing. And felt no need to have a rematch, remember he didn't rematch Alex Stewart either and i had that fight a draw. And George Foreman's face was even worse of a mess in that fight. But again they wern't robberies they were close fights, i think i had both fights a draw actually.

As for the Lou Savarese fight that was a close but clear win for George Foreman, didn't think anything was controversial about that fight although i remember it being an underrated fight action wise.

Now the Shannon Briggs fight that is what i call a robbery i had that 8-4 for George
Foreman.
He wasn't rematching Shultz because he was convinced he was in the Tyson sweepstakes when Tyson came out of prison and as you said he was near the end, and knew it. Shultz had no business fighting for a title and this was the fight that brought the ibf corruption into full view and saw it's head Bob lee indicted for a bribe to have him ranked. Foreman was getting stripped of a belt either way and sure as hell going to do business with Don King and defend against Tony Tucker. The ibf shortly after stripped Delahoya for not it's unknown, unheralded Miguel Julio. Briggs was a terrible call.