Who was more terrifying Mike Tyson or George Foreman?

[Beanz]

Lou Beale...by a country mile

[brocktonblockbust]

Lou Beale...by a country mile

[Spicoli]

Easily Tyson I'd think. Never knew if he'd try to put your jaw in the back of your neck, break an arm or chew on your eyeball or bend you over the stool. Then the pacing. Foreman was menacing but low key, he'd stand stock still at refs instructions and just look a guy dead in the eyes, back and forth.

[Alpha]

Tyson was like a pit bull, if he snapped there was no saving you.

[mikeeod]

I would argue that whichever one happened to be across from you at that particular moment was/is the most terrifying.

[brocktonblockbust]

I think it was more a case of would you rather have your head ripped off a la Mike Tyson or would you rather look at your silent and frightening to tombstone a la George Foreman

[ykdadamaja]

At their primes they BOTH were intimidating. But NO ONE- aside from Ali- wanted to fight Foreman. NO ONE. People knew they could lose fighting Tyson, but post-Tucker, people felt as if they could have survived the encounter. Not so with Foreman. It was sudden death. And most of them knew it. Ali was afraid too, but Ali's sheer will put him over the top and his experience with beating Liston gave him that notion that BOXING could beat BRUTE FORCE at any time in the ring.

This is why Ali was and still is THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME!

[Neil_Hines]

Tyson was like a pit bull, if he snapped there was no saving you.

I agree with you, friend.