Joe frazier (rip) would be the smallest opponent wlad....

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

Foremans second career:

-Scraped a Majority decision against alex stewart who after a dodgy start began to outbox foreman as the fight progressed, stewart was comprehensivly beaten by klitschko victim phil jackson, ibragimov victim lance whitaker and peter victim maskaev.

-Was stripped of the WBA belt after refusing to fight tony tucker and opted to fight probably the most vulnerable champion of the 90's, southpaw michael moorer, was schooled for 9 rounds until moorer's chin caught up with him again! Imagine what southpw byrd would have done to foreman!

-Fought gerry cooney who was in retirement for 3 years and in the depths of drugs, depression and achohol dependancy!

-Fought 5'5" former CW champ Dwight Muhammad Qawi who weighed 222lbs for the fight, a few months prior he scaled at 190 lbs for holyfield and went back down to CW immediately after losing to foreman!

-Dropped a wide decision to perrenial steroid abuser and notorious china chin tommy 'the actor' morrison! Morrison was kayoed in 1 the same year by herbie hide victim michael bentt!

-Average axel schultz outboxed and outworked foreman, leaving him a busted up mess, George wasw awarded a disgraceful decision, foreman was stripped again (this time by the IBF) for refusing to rematch schultz!

-Fought lou Savarese to a SD.

-Backed out of a fight with rahmam and opted to fight the in experienced shannon briggs who had already been stopped by Darroll Wilson, briggs fought to cautiously and george may have just deserved this one! However, briggs was struggling with men like botha and sedrick fields at this point too so acquitting himself well against briggs was no indication of anything other than foreman again was struggling with B level fighters...

Foremans second career was a bit of a side show and a well managed charade, i repect foreman of course, he made a fight of it with holy in the latter part of there fight and won a title at that amazing age but in truth he was an easy fighter to outbox who picked his opponents very well, who can blame him though!

Scape away all the hyperbole of his first career too and u will see he was far from the unbeatable monster some portay him as:
Foreman made a name off of fighting frazier, frazier as stated would be the klitschkos smallest ever opponent, he would be a small CW by todays standards in fact! That foreman destroyed frazier is not proof of anything.

-Fought like some crude amateur with the ring intelligence of a drunk vs ali...

-Outboxed by young and put down in round twelve ( Young wasn't even a puncher and scored 3 KO's throughout his entire career!)

-Brutal fight with ron lyle in hich he was floored twice.

See? Sorry but id favour many fighters over the last decade to beat any version of foreman. And as i said even foreman himself admits the klitschkos are better than him.