Great footage..love the minimalist announcing. Today with all the noise the fan doesn’t get a chance to breath. This is what the Sweet Science was meant to be.
I don’t know how much was mismanaged or how much Archie Moores refusal to fight for so many years was the problem for several fighters. Harold finally took legal action. Moore is lauded for holding the title the longest, but that’s not accurate. 🥊🥊
Harold Johnson or Bob Satterfield would've given Bob Foster all he could handle. HJ had possibly the best physique of any LH champ, for what that's worth.
I think Foster stops both of them. Johnson was a great technical fighter, but I think that Foster’s height, aggression, and wrecking ball of a left hook would eventually be too much for him to absorb. However, I think Johnson has some success in outboxing him early on. And then Satterfield was an absolute banger, but his method of fighting was pretty much “knock out or be knocked out.” Satterfield didn’t have the chin to withstand Foster’s heavier shots.
@@tomb9696 that’s actually a good and legitimate question. I’ll acknowledge that the light heavyweight division wasn’t exactly overwhelmed with top quality opposition while Foster was champion. His greatest opposition there though was 2x middleweight champion, reigning light heavyweight champion, and fellow Hall of Famer Dick Tiger, from whom he won the light heavyweight belt. Tiger was as tough as nails, always advanced forward like his namesake, and had a rock-solid chin, having only previously been stopped once early in his career. Foster, however, flattened him with a single dynamite left hook, a testament to his power. Johnson would’ve probably outboxed Tiger (though I wouldn’t be shocked if Tiger got a victory in a series of fights), but I think Tiger would’ve been able to weather whatever Satterfield brought to the table to stop him late.
Also worth mentioning on Johnson potentially giving Foster all he could handle: As great as Johnson was, he was stopped in the early rounds on 4 of the 5 occasions he lost before the final bell (though one of them was due to a bizarre back injury, and another was due to him being drugged before a fight). The remainder was a 14th round TKO loss to the great Archie Moore. As great of a technical boxer as Harold was, I think he may have been a little bit of a “chinny” fighter; I’ve seen worse chins, but his wasn’t always guaranteed to hold up. I think a fight with Foster would probably resemble Harold’s final fight with Archie Moore; Johnson would do a good job at outboxing Foster, but Bob’s power would start to catch up to Harold, and he’d finish him off somewhere after the 10th or 12th round.
Good info on Johnson. A credit to the sport. Satterfield was the stuff of legends. Live or die by KO. "Bombs away" as Les Keiter would say.@@corytclark
Great footage..love the minimalist announcing. Today with all the noise the fan doesn’t get a chance to breath. This is what the Sweet Science was meant to be.
I don’t know how much was mismanaged or how much Archie Moores refusal to fight for so many years was the problem for several fighters. Harold finally took legal action. Moore is lauded for holding the title the longest, but that’s not accurate. 🥊🥊
@@maaslider Then he lost his title to Willie Pastrano, who just ran and jabbed.
Harold Johnson was an excellent fighter but was mismanaged his entire career.
Harold Johnson or Bob Satterfield would've given Bob Foster all he could handle.
HJ had possibly the best physique of any LH champ, for what that's worth.
I think Foster stops both of them.
Johnson was a great technical fighter, but I think that Foster’s height, aggression, and wrecking ball of a left hook would eventually be too much for him to absorb. However, I think Johnson has some success in outboxing him early on.
And then Satterfield was an absolute banger, but his method of fighting was pretty much “knock out or be knocked out.” Satterfield didn’t have the chin to withstand Foster’s heavier shots.
@@corytclark I Can't argue too much with that assessment, though did Foser ever KO a fighter as good as either one of them?
@@tomb9696 that’s actually a good and legitimate question.
I’ll acknowledge that the light heavyweight division wasn’t exactly overwhelmed with top quality opposition while Foster was champion. His greatest opposition there though was 2x middleweight champion, reigning light heavyweight champion, and fellow Hall of Famer Dick Tiger, from whom he won the light heavyweight belt. Tiger was as tough as nails, always advanced forward like his namesake, and had a rock-solid chin, having only previously been stopped once early in his career. Foster, however, flattened him with a single dynamite left hook, a testament to his power.
Johnson would’ve probably outboxed Tiger (though I wouldn’t be shocked if Tiger got a victory in a series of fights), but I think Tiger would’ve been able to weather whatever Satterfield brought to the table to stop him late.
Also worth mentioning on Johnson potentially giving Foster all he could handle:
As great as Johnson was, he was stopped in the early rounds on 4 of the 5 occasions he lost before the final bell (though one of them was due to a bizarre back injury, and another was due to him being drugged before a fight). The remainder was a 14th round TKO loss to the great Archie Moore.
As great of a technical boxer as Harold was, I think he may have been a little bit of a “chinny” fighter; I’ve seen worse chins, but his wasn’t always guaranteed to hold up.
I think a fight with Foster would probably resemble Harold’s final fight with Archie Moore; Johnson would do a good job at outboxing Foster, but Bob’s power would start to catch up to Harold, and he’d finish him off somewhere after the 10th or 12th round.
Good info on Johnson. A credit to the sport. Satterfield was the stuff of legends. Live or die by KO. "Bombs away" as Les Keiter would say.@@corytclark
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