Sonny Liston was overall a better, smarter boxer with much better stamina than a young Foreman, with comparable knockout power. Remember Liston had long since peaked before he met Paterson or Ali. His peak in this fantasy match would have probably been when he was doing time. 60% Liston.
Ali had a better chin than Creed (he was never down for the 10 count), tighter defence, faster hands and much more ring intelligence. He wouldn't have lost fighting Balboa's fight, he'd have been happy to take the decision if it meant getting the win. Ali 90%.
Joe Frazier was a legend in the ring and will always be a legend, he was one of the only men to beat Ali in his prime. However, when Joe was matched up against a powerful George Foreman, he was beat, quite badly. George Foreman was a powerful fighter but he left himself too open, Mike Tyson on the other hand waits for his opponent to make a mistake and In my opinion hits harder than either George Foreman and Frazier, and he was also much faster, so i'd say Mike Tyson 95% chance of winning.
Tyson would beat joe frazier in their primes. Frazier would probably try to stand toe to toe and tyson was much faster and his peekaboo helped him dodge a lot of punches. Tyson 9/10 times.
Ali would beat a fictional boxer because of the obvious. 10/10 times.
Foreman would beat liston because foreman had better stamina but still hard. 7/10 times.
Comparatively, prime for prime, Frazier in 1967-71 has had way better competition than Tyson of 1985-89. Frazier's resume listed the following world rated and still prime fighters Doug Jones, George Johnson, Manuel Ramos, Buster Douglas,Oscar Bonavena, Jimmy Ellis, George Chuvalo, Jerry Quarry and Bob Foster and the comebacking Muhammad Ali, many of whom he kayoed or stopped. On the other hand, Tyson has had James Tillis, Marvis Frazier, Alfonso Ratliff, Trevor Berbick,Pinklon Thomas, Tony Tucker, Tyrell Biggs, Larry Holmes, Tony Tubbs, Michael Spinks, Frank Bruno and Carl Williams, many of whom were already old and had seen better days at heavyweights. I would favor the prime unbeaten Frazier on this one with a winning chance of 60 percent.
Compartively, prime for prime, Liston has better competition than Foreman as his resume showed the following: Marty Marshall, a vet who broke his jaw and pin him his first career loss but whom he would beat in two more fights, once by KO: Cleveland Williams whom he fought and beat twice by TKO, Nino Valdez, Willie Besmanoff, Howard King whom he also beat by KO twice, Eddie Machen, Zora Folley,and Floyd Patterson whom he kayoed twice in the first round of their world title fights. On the other hand, Foreman has had Gregorio Peralta, a blown up light heavyweight whom he beat twice just on points and last round TKO, George Chuvalo, Boone Kirkman, Jose Roman, Joe Frazier and Ken Norton. I would favor Liston who was an underrated boxer over Foreman by a winning chance of 65 percent.
Ali 100 percent, nuff said. Waste of time figuring out a fight between real great, great boxer and champion against a fictional boxer who even lost to a fictional bum turned great fighter and champion.
It is an absolut insult to put Ali with the silly fictional Apoolo Creed. I can not therefore tke you seriously.
Mike Tyson VS Joe Frazier
George Foreman VS Sonny Liston
Muhammad Ali VS Apollo Creed (Fictional Boxer)
All in their Prime. Don't just say who would win say their chance of winning, eg. 71% For Fraizer.
