Larry Holmes came close of beating the uninspired version of the Atomic Bull. Had it been George, what would have happened?
Lighting a fire under McCall's ass usually got him going. Foreman couldn't catch Alex Stewart or Tommy Morrison, but McCall wouldn't be going anywhere. McCall had a great chin and underrated punching power. At the same time, McCall could be listless and he did have drug issues. He could implode at any moment. McCall was hot and cold. The hot version lights up Foreman and makes Foreman's face look worse than Alex Stewart ever did. He might even get a ref stoppage because this was 3 years after Stewart made Foreman look like a Jack O'Lantern. By '95, Foreman had no speed left and was barely beating Crawford Grimsley. The cold version of McCall wins a decision but still lumps Foreman up a bit.
Fixed. Foreman would land even less than Ruiz. Ruiz and Roy both have the problem with being hated on this website, therefore they immediately suck at MM. Meanwhile the steaming pile of shits that are post-Lewis Tyson and 90s Foreman are one punch knockout Gods. Foreman's being off the back of a fluke 10th round KO against a chinny LHW who was winning a wide decision. Apparently because Ruiz barely beat a 2000 Holyfield he wouldn't beat Post-Lewis Tyson, despite the fact that even a 2000 Holyfield STILL beats the shit out of Tyson for a THIRD time. :atu:
Jones could never mount a successful offense to win rounds against Foreman. He'd be stone-cold terrified --- & rightly so. He couldn't even bring himself to take a chance against Tarver, which is why he lost the third fight so wide. Honest to God, he ran from Tarver's power! :: But oh no, he decisioned John Ruiz. Next victim --- George Foreman :: The first jab Foreman landed would keep Jones running & ducking for however long he lasted. Is Jones' next hypothetical triumph taking Ali's place in 1964 to stop Liston?
Every Jones fan needs a healthy grip on hypothetical matches --- their hero was too uneasy to ever make the hard fights a reality ::
Are you retarded? Jones was damn near 37 and completely shot at that point. But let your blind hate deter you from using logic. Jones of course was the chinniest fighter in the sports history with no heart. Yeah...right.
Jones, then, was okay to beat Ruiz in 03, but was a completely shot, frail shell by the time he was knocked senseless (& subsequently chased out of the ring) by Tarver, all in the space of twelve months? That's quite a fall. Almost as quick as it is convenient. Meanwhile, you have spent the entire thread ragging on a Foreman in his forties, during which you have cited fights even at the very end of his second career, when he wasn't nearly as effective as he had been earlier. That's fair-play, is it? You keep talking down Moorer, but he achieved more at Heavyweight than Jones ever entertained thoughts of doing. Moorer may've been chinny, but he was no Antonio Tarver KO victim.
The only fail in your post was that you changed Roy-Tarver III to te second fight at your own convenience. Roy was past prime, allegedly sick, and simply, beyond that just got caught by w perfect punch by a fast fighter with good hand speed. You making a reference to a shot fighter who had been brutally KOd twice in a round only points to your pathetic bias.
Ditto on McCall in a close fight. George was pretty used up by then... but if I have my calendar right, then it was also at a time when McCall struggled with ancient Holmes (this much I can confirm from the OP ::) and in his next fight lost to Frank friggin' Bruno.
