If you had to fight a heavyweight champion

Ok, so the rules are as follows

You have to fight some heavyweight champion of the history (undisputed or one who has held one of the top-3 belts)

The fight lasts three rounds

If you pull a Seldon and quit or get DQd, you get fined 10 000. If you fight and get KOd, you get 10K. If you last the distance, any way possible, you get 500K. If you win, you get 30 million.

Which champion would you fight and which tactic would you try?

 

Either Chris Byrd or Buster Douglas.

Byrd is unlikely to score a stoppage (I'm assuming I'm a reasonably skilled and tough HW fighter), and when Douglas was the HW champ, he showed up just to collect a payday.

 

Valuev, with the strategy of keeping him nowhere near me...

 

Tommy Burns and I would win 30 million with my superior modern style, skill, size and talent.

 

He never saw a such thing as doubling up the jab.

His corner probably wouldn't have an answer to such dynamic tactics.

 

Max Baer, becuse he might just clown around and I can run away and clinch like my name was Lou Bizzarro

 

Definitely an early one. I'll take my pop at Tommy Burns, just because he seemed quite gentlemanly & decent.... & he's small.

 

Burns had a 74" reach on him from a 5'7" frame...be careful.:Ramonza:

 

Personally I would take on Jim Corbett and attack him

 

Fine then I'll take on Jack Dempsey. I think i could intimidate that poof with my Glaswegian accent.

 

James Braddock.

 

I bet you'd be be quite handy with some training, Sly.:fightme:

 

I woudl train to run as fast as possible for as long as possible. :giggle:

 

anyway..my tactic would be to run..then as soon as he gets close...duck and clinch. When ref seperates...leap in with a hook or something (hoping for a lucky KO...and keeping him honest momentarily) and when that doesn't work...reset and start over again with the same spoiling tactic.

 

I seriously wonder what would happen if a guy like Tyson or Louis hit a little twerp like me properly.....would a broken neck be out of the question?

 

You'd probably come down with a severe case of death..

 

I would fight Marvin Hart. I would just back peddle screaming "you ain't the real champ, Jim was wrong, Jim was wrong" and pretty soon he would collapse into a heap, sobbing.

 

John Ruiz! All he is gonna do is wonna grab and wrestle me! I figure it will be an easy $30 million. I'll Holla 5000

 

I think the idea is that you are you, not some "reasonably skilled tough fighter", that 500k would be WAY too easy if that was the case.
Me personally I'd just settle for the 10k knowing full well that any heavyweight champ in history would knock my block off in under 3 minutes.

 

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I would fight Frans Botha

 

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Thanks dude I needed a chuckle today

 

Frans was tough. You would lose.

 

I'm too fast for the big buffalo

 

Valuev. I run away and every time he gets within a metre I take a knee. Three knockdown rule is not in effect. :mj:

 

Fuck it.

Mike Tyson, the Peter McNeeley way, but without the pussy manager.

 

Wlad Klitschko. I'd definitely last 3 rounds, he doesn't even start throwing right hands until around the 4th or 5th.

 

No matter the opponent, I'm sure if they were briefed on the fact they were fighting a man from the street, most likely without anything more than a passing sphere of experience in the sport first-hand (if even that, in a lot of instances), almost anyone you could name would lighten up a good deal.

 

Yes. They would lighten US up. As in lit up.

 

definitely, Im pretty sure even a featherweight, 100 pounds smaller than me, would light me up like a christmas tree