Quote Originally Posted by atomic bull
What!!! A prime George Foreman got his ears boxed off by Jimmy Young in March of 1977, and got dropped....a prime Holmes who's bigger, stronger, and with a piston jab, he eats Foreman up and knocks him OUT!!!!! TRUST ME!!
That was post Ali, he wasn't in his prime he was still reeling from that loss.

In my opinion from 78 to 80 to 96 Foreman would have beaten the shit out of Larry Holmes who got rocked by Renaldo Snipes who had a 22 (11 KO)-0-0 record when they fought and you're telling me Foreman would have hurt Larry and got him out of there.

Foreman was a bully and no one knew how to fuck with bully's heads like Ali. Ali turned the crowd in Zaire against Foreman, he wouldn't let him leave the country because he was friends with the Dictator there, he did the same thing to Foreman he did to Liston. The thing is Foreman was better than Liston but what happened with the Rumble in The Jungle is all these outside factors added up and hurt his chances of winning where if the fight was in the US maybe the crowd wouldn't be as much of a factor, the ropes of course was another thing.

Holmes is an all-time great but he's no George Foreman