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I watched HBOs Legendary fights on Forman-Moorer recently. It was funny listening to Big George say how he was setting Moorer up all night for that right hand he was talking like it was planned...does anyone agree..Moorer said thats BS , he was whipping Georges ass all night and George just got a luck punch in.

ShoeShine wrote:I watched HBOs Legendary fights on Forman-Moorer recently. It was funny listening to Big George say how he was setting Moorer up all night for that right hand he was talking like it was planned...does anyone agree..Moorer said thats BS , he was whipping Georges ass all night and George just got a luck punch in.

I would'nt call that a lucky punch, it was writin in the sky that Foreman would ko Moorer's little glass jaw.

It's true to say George's entire game plan did revolve around landing his big right on Moorer's fragile chin, although he may not have intended to get beaten until his eyes were closing first. Foreman knew he'd have to KO Moorer, who was slightly over-awed by fighting such a legend. At the end of the first round Teddy Atlas can be overheard telling Moorer "See, he's just an old guy, our sparring partners were better" or something similar. Moorer was always mentally doubtful.

In boxing there is no such thing as a lucky punch . . .

Teddy Atlas antics in the corner during that fight were classic.... " your gonna cry tomorrow"!! hehehehehe

>>>>In boxing there is no such thing as a lucky punch . . .<<<


Bullshit...Lucky punches are landed almost weekly!

I see your point. Regardless that wasn't a lucky punch Big George landed on Michael Moorer that famous night, he was looking to do that the whole fight. If I remember correctly he sort of set Moorer up with a lesser right just before the big one, Foreman knew he'd never win on points.

It was Foreman's plan to land the right, but it wasn't his plan to get the complete shit beat out of him for nine rounds, it was a lucky shot. It was the quintessential lucky punch, nothing more…nothing less!

Yeah, pure luck that Foreman should knock Moorer out with a right hand. Who'd have thought it?

Foreman was losing basically all the rounds. And if Moorer wouldnt have been so relaxed by Foremans being outclassed, he would have won by a mile. Foreman was showing all his 45 years in that fight. He still had the power, but he want landing anything important. He was lucky. Very lucky.

But power is the last thing to leave a boxer. And if Foreman could land the same right on any other boxer he would have at least knocked them down. It was right on the button and very hard. And heavyweights that big can floor anyone with a well placed right that lands flush.

I guess that was the most humili^ting dfeat for any champ. To be koed that late agaisnt a fat, 45 year old that you ve been beating the whole fight!

jab wrote:Foreman was losing basically all the rounds. And if Moorer wouldnt have been so relaxed by Foremans being outclassed, he would have won by a mile. Foreman was showing all his 45 years in that fight. He still had the power, but he want landing anything important. He was lucky. Very lucky.

But power is the last thing to leave a boxer. And if Foreman could land the same right on any other boxer he would have at least knocked them down. It was right on the button and very hard. And heavyweights that big can floor anyone with a well placed right that lands flush.

I guess that was the most humili^ting dfeat for any champ. To be koed that late agaisnt a fat, 45 year old that you ve been beating the whole fight!

You're not wrong there, although perhaps a more granite-jawed heavyweight would have got up again. Foreman threw bigger punches in his career, and I doubt the then-WBC champ Oliver McCall would even have been on the floor from the same shot, but Moorer had a somewhat delicate chin.

Hell, Oliver McCall wouldn't go down if someone dropped an atomic bomb on him. Foreman surely landed more harder shots against Ali, but very few throughout his career were as picture perfect and right on the spot as the one Moorer felt!

Moorer said he was actually out on his feet from the first hand he got caught with and the second one was just icing on the cake.

barry wrote: it was a lucky shot.

Sorry, but youre way off base with that one

Give a puncher enough shots at the title and sooner or later he will land the KO punch.

If Oliver Mccail Got Hit by 45 year Old foremans right, Mccall would probably start crying.

The funny thing is a lot of people thought Moorer won every round up until that point, but the jugdes had it somewhat different. Two of The judges had it 88-83 or 7 rounds to 2 so moorer had the fight basically won, but the other judge actually had it 86-85 moorer or 5 rounds to 4 so he had it very close, and if moorer got up from the knockdown, foreman would have been ahead of the scorecard of one judge 95-94 foreman after 10 rounds. THe other two judges scorecards would have read after 10 rounds 96-93 moorer.

Judge: Jerry Roth 83-88 | Judge: Chuck Giampa 83-88 | Judge: Duane Ford 85-86

What did u guys have it scored after 9 rounds????

I don't remember what score I had, but I do know that if it wasn't a shutout, it was very, very close until BOOM!

I had Foreman winning 1 rd up to that point.