Smallthoughts: Old School Tuesday…Ron Lyle vs George Foreman

Welcome to Smallthoughts: Old School Tuesday.  We are going back in time Ron Lyle vs George Foreman. This fight was not for the weak at heart. It was billed as a slugfest and it definitely lived up to the billing. Howard Cosell and Ken Norton were the ringside announcers. So he we go back in

Smallthoughts: Old School Tuesday …George Foreman vs Jimmy Young

By this point in time Foreman was no longer the champ having lost to Ali. Foreman desperate to regain the title and feeling his title hopes slipping away…took this fight against the ultra slick Jimmy Young. It was this fight that sent George Foreman into his first retirement and stayed retired for quite some time.

Smallthoughts: Old School Tuesday… Ron Lyle vs George Foreman

I decided to try something different with Smallthoughts: Old School Tuesday and change the format just a little. Usually you get stats and the story of the athlete’s career that is being spotlighted.  So for this week you get a taste of Boxing’s Heavyweight division of the 1970’s. Courtesy of you tube, Smallthoughts :Old School

Smallthoughts:Old School Tuesday …George Foreman

You know him as the pitch man with the grill. In fact you may even have the grill at home. Yet in his prime George Foreman wasn’t the nice pitch man or the preacher or the motivational speaker that he is today. You may know him as the man who fought Evander Holyfield and beat

Ken Norton dead at 70.

Ken Norton best known for his 3 thisclose fights with Muhammad Ali, passed away at age 70. Norton was tough in the ring and his awarkward style baffled Ali alot. In their fights it was true that styles made fights.Neither man ever knocked the other down and all 3 fights went the distance. In their

How would Mike Tyson have done against the Gaunlet of Norton, Foreman, Frazier and Ali? part 3 Mike Tyson vs George Foreman

This is the fight that make fight fans drool, knockout artist of the highest order. In his prime George Foreman the man who knocked out Joe Frazier not once but 7 times in two fights, Foreman also has knocked out Ken Norton in both their primes. Foreman has knocked out nearly everyone who has crossed

How would Mike Tyson have done against the Gauntlet of Norton, Foreman, Frazier and Ali? Part 1

In his prime Mike Tyson was the most dangerous heavyweight champion in quite some time. His early fights didn’t go passed three rounds. Many of his opponents were defeated long before the bell rung and long after their bell was rung. My beef for a long time was that no one really challenged Tyson stood

Greatest of all time Muhammad Ali turned 71

Float like a butterfly sting like a bee in his prime noone could touch Muhammad Ali. If you don’t know how he was, or how good he was here’s your chance take a look at some of his highlights.