Patterson by TKO Prime Patterson was freakishly fast, & threw GR8 combos. Foster was excellent & had a fantastic jab, but Patterson would find him.
Patterson was freakishly fast against the worst opposition any heavyweight champ faced since Tommy Burns I give Foster a great shot here Because Foster was clearly a lesser man above 175, the knee-jerk reaction here is to assume that Patterson knocks him dead but I'm not so sure Patterson was going life and death with guys like Tommy Jackson, Pete Rademacher (in his first pro fight!) , Tom McNeely... absolutely horrible opposition... he avoided even the slightest hint of a genuine contender... does anyone here think Foster would have any trouble beating Jackson, Rademacher and McNeely?? Could Foster do any WORSE against Liston than Patterson did? Could he do any worse against Johansson? Does Patterson not get knocked senseless against Joe Frazier? of course he does! Listen, I'm not trying to say Foster was a good heavyweight, it's clear that Patterson was better suited to the weight class than he was But Floyd Patterson was one of the most vulnerable successful heavyweight boxers who ever lived... he wasnt Joe Frazier or Muhammad Ali, he's not in a position to just run over Bob Foster... he would have plenty of trouble along the way and maybe, just maybe, he gets hurt bad enough to turn it in Foster's favor... Foster's problem at heavyweight was that he was too weak to hold the big guys off and he couldn't handle the punches of 210 pound men, but he could still punch very hard... a fact acknowledged by Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier Again, I'm inclined to go with the safe bet and pick Patterson, but anyone here who thinks Patterson has an easy time of it simply isn't paying attention to the facts of Floyd's career
