‘That guy was a nightmare in the ring, I didn’t want anything to do with him’: George Foreman reveals why he never faced ‘monster’ Mike Tyson after making shock heavyweight comeback aged 38 in 1987
George Foreman made a surprise return to the ring aged 38 after a decade away.
At that time, Mike Tyson, 21, held the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight belts.
There were ‘serious negotiations’ to make the high-profile fight happen. But Foreman has admitted Tyson was a ‘nightmare’ in the ring and a ‘monster’.
However, Foreman believes Tyson was frightened of facing him as well.
George Foreman has admitted he ‘didn’t want anything to do’ with ‘monster’ Mike Tyson when a fight between the two heavyweights was mooted in the late 1980s.
Two-time world champion Foreman was 38 in 1987 when he stunned the boxing world by announcing a comeback.
But the showdown never materialised and Foreman has explained the reasons why.
‘That guy was a nightmare in the ring. I didn’t want anything to do with that guy,’ he told ESPN.
‘I didn’t want a part of Mike Tyson. He was a monster.
‘Those are the kind of guys you see in a nightmare. You want to wake up and say, ‘so glad that’s a dream.’
‘I didn’t want any part of Mike Tyson – no way.’
But Foreman said that Tyson felt the same way at the time: ‘He was scared and I was glad of that.’
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