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heavyweight champions worst preformances in their primes

Posted: 28 Aug 2005, 22:33
by BrocktonBlockbuster49
muhammad Ali (underestimated jones)- 10u over Doug jones

Joe Louis- 15s over Arturo Godoy

Rocky Marciano(had the flu)- TKO 6 over Lee Savold

George Foreman- L 12 Jimmy Young - foreman was in his prime butdidnt fight like it. there was speculation foreman was badly dehydrated

Mike Tyson- TKo'd 10- tyson would have knocked buster douglas out if he simply had kevin rooney in his corner. they didnt even have ice to puut on his eye during the fight, they used a baloon full of water.

Joe Frazier- TKO'd 2 George Foreman - frazier wasnt at his total prime though.

Jack Johnson- D 10 Jim Johnson

Larry Holmes- TKO 11 Renaldo Snipes

Ezzard Charles - KO'd 7 Jersey Joe walcott

Jersey Joe walcott- L 10 to Rex Layne

Jack Dempsey- W 15 tommy Gibbons

Lennox Lewis- TKO'd 5 Hasim Rahman

Holyfield - L 12 Michael Moorer

Bowe- L 12 Evander Holyfield



what do u gguys think some are debatable

Posted: 28 Aug 2005, 22:38
by sharkeysboy
Patterson v Johanssen. Ugly. Of course, Floyd hat a lot of ugly defenses. But you were asking for the worse.

Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 10:23
by walshb
Brockton...How can you say Frazier's performanc was not up to it. Foreman on that nignt was almost unbeatable. Frazier was never going to beat that Foreman, no matter what he did. He was annihilated by a Monster. Joe's style was tailor made for Foreman

Re: heavyweight champions worst preformances in their primes

Posted: 29 Aug 2005, 10:50
by The Great John L
BrocktonBlockbuster49 wrote:Mike Tyson- TKo'd 10- tyson would have knocked buster douglas out if he simply had kevin rooney in his corner. they didnt even have ice to puut on his eye during the fight, they used a baloon full of water.
I think he needed a whole lot more than Kevin Rooney and some ice. I watched this fight again this weekend on ESPN and I have to say that Buster fought a great fight. While Tyson may not have been at the top of his game that night, he still was in his prime and was hardly a shell of the Tyson from 2 years earlier. It was more a case of someone coming into the fight with a plan and some skills. Once Buster didn't back down in the first it was just a matter of time.

As far as someone in their prime who had an off night -- how about Witherspoon against Bonecrusher? Blown out in one by a guy he had already beaten.