The heavyweight icons had reportedly been in discussions to face each other during the early 1990’s, but a fight never came to fruition – largely due to Tyson losing his world title to Buster Douglas in a shock upset – much to the disappointment of boxing fans around the world.
Foreman would go on to face WBA and IBF heavyweight champion Michael Moorer in 1994, stopping the previously unbeaten champion in the tenth round of their bout to become the oldest world heavyweight champion of all time.
Legendary coach and analyst Teddy Atlas, who was actually in the opposite corner when Foreman defeated Moorer over thirty years ago and helped trained Tyson in his very early days, has had his say on what he believes the outcome would have been if ‘Big’ George had faced ‘Iron’ Mike.
Speaking on his Youtube channel The Fight, Atlas made no mistake in backing Foreman to prevail a fantasy match-up with ‘Iron’ Mike, claiming the style of the late-great heavyweight legend would have been ‘all wrong’ for Tyson.
“You ain’t gonna like this Tyson fans … Foreman’s style was wrong for Tyson. He would’ve came in trying to slip and bob and I think it would’ve been a replay of the fight with Foreman and Frazier, twice, and we all know what happened in that – Foreman knocked him out.
“Bad style match up, the right punches to catch him, the size advantage. And they are from the same era do we don’t even have to play the game to conform and adjust. Foreman was naturally the bigger guy. He would’ve been able to catch Tyson coming in, time him. Foreman had a great chin. Tyson would’ve landed maybe a left hook, Foreman could’ve handled it.”
Foreman would continue fighting until just shy of his 49th birthday, where he would suffer a contentious defeat in the final outing of his career against Shannon Briggs in 1997, drawing the curtain on his outstanding professional career shortly after.
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