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    Quote Originally Posted by Max Power View Post
    It's fair to say Foremans run was awesome as well but I didn't see him beat any top tier boxers of the 90's and didn't see him fight the good+big men like Riddick or Lennox or Tyson.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FinitoElDinamita View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Max Power View Post
    It's fair to say Foremans run was awesome as well but I didn't see him beat any top tier boxers of the 90's and didn't see him fight the good+big men like Riddick or Lennox or Tyson.
    Michael moorer
    Yes, yes... there was Michael Moorer.. Credit to the big man there. But I'm not sure that "win" constitutes an amazing effort.

    I think maybe Moorer standing in front of the giant puncher who's basically only chance was a good shot, despite endless warnings about such thing from his usually moronic but this time on the money trainer at the time is a bit ridiculous.

    Moorer's loss was through his own extreme arrogance, a bit like his opponents loss was about 20 years earlier.
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    Hopkins is far more impressive. Foreman handpicked his opponents and openly avoided Lewis. Hopkins would never did that. Even when he knew he was going to lose against Taylor, Dawson and Joe he took them on and only their youth and out put beat him.
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    How did Foreman avoid Lewis exactly i mean he was robbed against Briggs or he could of fought him am i right or did i miss something. As for Calzaghe he was 36 and his whole style was based on output and speed and that is the first thing to go far from a young man. Foreman fought Moorer, Morrison, Briggs and a prime fucking Holyfeild after not boxing for over a decade against top guys. He came back won the belt in the deepest division of heavyweights at 45 after not fighting for over a decade that's fucking nuts. I mean not like he kept fighting he just took a huge time off and then became hw champ that shit will most likely not happen again a Champ regains his title 20 years later that is more epic to me then anything Hopkins did i also put a lot more weight on Being the Hw champ because your the top dog pretty much as well.
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    Also not to put Lewis down because he a great champ but he had been knocked out by McCall the rematch just showed McCall had drug problems. Then he had a fight with mercer which he could of easly lost not like he was the champ he would become when Foreman had the strap.

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    You must have missed Foreman openly say he was never fighting Lewis. Too young and dangerous for him.
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    Did he say it in a interview maybe i did miss it but his comp was as good as any Hopkins is fighting. i Mean do think any of this Lhw he is fighting are even on a Level of Lewis. I bet you if Michael Spinks was champ and young and old Hopkins would retire shit a young one would not even get in the ring.

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