Sky Sports<\/a> on the match-up, he backed Foreman to win in double quick time.<\/p>\n\u201cI ain\u2019t knocking Mike Tyson, but no.. George Foreman would win in two seconds, he hit too hard.<\/p>\n
Anybody come at George Foreman you got to box like I did, or Ali did, you can\u2019t stay there and take those punches. They take your head off. Bam, bam, it\u2019s like the kitchen sink he\u2019s hitting you with.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prime for prime battle is an intriguing one to break down, particularly given Foreman\u2019s granite chin versus the speed and ferocity of the smaller man. Tyson could become vulnerable when dragged deep by the top men in the division, and \u2018Big\u2019 George\u2019s patience plus raw power may have been a style match-up that wasn\u2019t suited to the Brooklyn puncher.<\/p>\n
The pair had great respect for one another when reminiscing about a potential fight<\/a>, but Tyson still regrets the clash not taking place, saying he would have liked to have pitted his power against Foreman\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson vs George Foreman is a battle of the big punchers that never was. Larry Holmes, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-340276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}