Quote Originally Posted by Beanflicker View Post
You don't have to sell me on Big George, he's one of my all times favourites, but I just think he was too slow to beat Tyson. It's true that he took everything from Holyfield, but then again Holmes took everything from Holyfield after Tyson blasted him out years earlier. Alex Stewart went the distance with Holyfield and was stopped late once by him, and Tyson blasted him out in 1 years earlier. You can't really compare prime Tyson to a Holyfield in terms of knockout ability IMO.

I don't think there was a HW alive who could go toe to toe with prime Tyson. Sure, guys like George and Shavers' might have had more one-punch power, but they couldn't compete with the speed or the compactness of Tyson's blows. He would have killed Joe Frazier IMO.

I think Holyfield stopped Stewart in the 8th? As you said, Tyson blitzed him, then Moorer had to wage a war, but stopped Stewart. Ands for whatever reason, it was Forman ..who went the distance with Stewart LOL.
I think Kabong put it best to me- Forman didn't wilt & Tyson didn't just look 4 it, he needed it.