Who Really Won – George Foreman Vs. Axel Schulz?
Here’s another big fight that deserves to be further scrutinized. At least the scoring of this fight qualifies for another look.
Here’s another big fight that deserves to be further scrutinized. At least the scoring of this fight qualifies for another look.
The Heavyweight Dinosaur, The Cruiserweight King And The Lethal Light-Heavyweight
Together, they’re not known as grandly as anything like The Three Kings, but between them, from 1991 to 1997, heavyweights George Foreman, Evander Holyfield and Michael Moorer (placed here not in order of greatness but in alphabetical order) gave us four fights that proved memorable for a number of reasons.
Can heavyweight living legend Big George Foreman help guide Deontay Wilder back to the WBC title? Wilder has spoken with Foreman, who twice ruled the world; in the 1970s and again in the 1990s – and the man who was so badly hammered by Tyson Fury says the talk went very well.
This Tuesday, April 7, will be a night of heavyweight legends on ESPN2 when the network airs a special programming lineup featuring classic heavyweight fights.
How bad was the peak George Foreman? Many years before his remodeling, when he returned as a smiling, shaven-headed peoples’ champ who everyone was pulling for, Foreman was a terrifying destroyer.
THE boxing comeback? Maybe. It was 33 years ago today, March 9th, 1987, when former heavyweight king George Foreman shocked the boxing world by launching a comeback that was mostly if not exclusively, inspired by a need for money.
Heavyweight legend George Foreman has urged former WBC heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder to come and work with him. Foreman, who spoke with The Athletic, said he doesn’t want to become Wilder’s full-time trainer, or even a part of his entourage, but that he wants to help Wilder attain the physical strength he needs to become champion again.
Big George Foreman is universally recognized as one of the greatest heavyweight champions during the long rich history of boxing’s marquee division, and not without great reason.
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Late British boxing commentator Harry Carpenter once faced quite heavy criticism for having got too carried away, too excited, during his calling of a fight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w41kFYlMvmc
47 years ago, a 3/1 underdog scored six knockdowns in just over five-minutes to devastatingly alter the heavyweight landscape.
It was billed as “The Sunshine Showdown” (this really one of the worst taglines attached to the great heavyweight rumbles of the 1970s; a time when all the big ones had a catchphrase), but only one man was seeing anything bright at the end of the short fight that took place in Kingston, Jamaica on January 22nd, 1973.