George Foreman admitted that he had evaded Tony Tucker because he was “too difficult” to face the ring. The legendary Pugilist enjoyed an unusual 28-year term in the boxing ring, starting from 1969 and ended in 1997, with an amazing record of 76 wins and 5 losses.

In addition to winning the prestigious titles of WBA, WBC, IBF and WBu, Foreman also secured the Olympic gold medal before he hung the gloves. Although he met with many powerful opponents, including icons such as Muhammad Ali, Evander Holyfield, Joe Frazier and Shannon Briggs, he decided to give up his title WBA in 1995, and not enter the ring with Tucker.

Speaking of his decision in 2016, during a conversation at Oxford Union, Foreman said: “They tried to force me to fight Tony Tucker after I defeated Michael Moorer and I remember that I looked at Tony Tucker and said:” Momma I don’t She raised a fool.

“Some people I don’t intend to fight. This is a good reason, I didn’t want to fight him. Too difficult. I have to tell the truth, “he informs Mirror us. After taking over the WBA and IBF belts with the tenth round of Moorener in November 1994, Foreman was then instructed to defend his WBA title against Tucker, the obligatory claimant of the Association at that time.

Foreman decided not to defend his title, leading WBA to dismantle him. Instead, he decided to defend his IBF title against Axel Schultz in 1995. During the Foreman competition, he won the empty WBU title through the decision of the majority – the title he defended in the following year, while securing the free IBA stripes with a unanimous victory of the decision on this Crawford Grimsley.

In April 1997 he kept his belt with a fractional decision over Lou Savarese, then withdrew after the majority defeat of Briggs in November, ending his career filled with triumphs. Tucker was in the 33-Wall series when he won his first world championship title in 1987, defeating Buster Douglas with the tenth round of TKO to secure the IBF belt.

Later the same year, Mike Tyson and WBC played the title for a shot in WBA and WBC, but he was finally defeated by a unanimous decision -making loss with “the worst man on the planet.” Tucker went 14 unbeatable fights before he got another chance for the glory of heavyweight, once again without repeating against Lennox Lewis in May 1993 in another loss.

After providing victories over David Graves, George Stephens, Cecil Coffee and Dan Murphy, WBA insisted that Foreman gave Tucker a chance to challenge him a challenge for his belt. However, Foreman refused, which caused him to leave the title.

Paid at that time with an impressive 52-2 record, Tucker finally had the opportunity to fight for the title in 1995. He founded against Bruce Seldon, hoping to regain gold heavyweight.

However, “TNT” was forced to find out when he retired in the seventh round in Caesar’s palace because of the mighty swelling on the left eye. Tucker had another opportunity to reach heavyweight in June 1997, when he went against Herba Hide for the free WBO title.

Unfortunately, he suffered TKO in the second round. Despite this failure, two of the consecutive fights won before he hung up his gloves with victory over Billy Wright in May 1998. His general record was 57-7-1 (without a competition).

George Liddard took the title of Silver Medium Commonwealth with the unanimous victory of the decision on Derrick Osaze on the NXTGEN card in Indigo at O2 Arena on Friday

Liddard (11-0, 6 KO) has done his biggest so far at the moment, while Osaze (13-3, 3. KOS) won the Best Boxxer tournament in 2019, but was blown up Two rounds of heavy Denzel Bentley In August last year on his last trip.

They both achieved their successes in the opening round, but Liddard found his groove in the second, landing with clear right hands.

The action was fingers, and the couple is unloading, and the fourth man with Essex stuck his rival with a tough left hand for a moment, but Osaze dug deeply and still approaches.

The 31-year-old was doing well to suppress Liddard’s work, and not a step back when they changed tough arrows almost all the time.

The point was that the 22-year-old was a step ahead with his disadvantage, but his opponent was very straightforward until the last bell.

Two results 96-94 and in the third result 97-93 meant that Liddard finished the winner.

Bostan-Favaz is fighting for drawing

The main support meant that Junaid Bostan really tested for the first time and was recognized as a divided decision in its offer of a free English title of the Super Credit Union against Bilal Fawaz.

Fawaz (9-1-1, 3 KO) gave as well as he got with Bostan (10-0-1, 8 KO), and after the balance of an early storm he grew up to the competition, and the seventh round seeing 36- Cear-Wobble the Rotherham Man with a few unanswered.

The 22-year-old began to bother and unravel in later rounds, but he gathered in the eighth and nine rounds, and the fan poured pressure in the final round to make sure he was in a shout that he nodded.

One judge had it 97-93 for Fawaz, with another 96-94 for Bostan. The third referee evaluated the attack 95-95. Both exchanged spikes in Interview after a fightWith a rematch, probably a logical next step for both.

Science sees rosadini

The average weight of Jimmy Sains (9-0, 9 KO) produced a clinical show in its first eight round, spreading Pierre Rosadini into the seventh round space.

Rosadini (6-7-3) fell in the fifth round, and two rounds later a solid right hand burst the Frenchman, and the continuation attack put him on canvas.

🚂💨 Jimmy Sains maintains a KO train with a 7 -round stop 💥#SAINSROSADINI |. @Daznboxing |. #LIDDARDOSAZE pic.twitter.com/yqs6lralus

– boxing matchroom (@matchroomboxing) January 31, 2025

Groggg will escalate, and the judge saw enough and stopped the competition.

Other card

In Super Feather Wweight Giorgio Visioli (6-0, 5 KO) forced Colombia Francisco Javier Lucero (16-7-4, 12 KO) to retire after five rounds of their planned eight runes.

In six rounds, Maisey-Rose Courtney (8-1) won all the available sessions in her weight weight with Jasmina nad (11-34-5, 4 KO), while Jesse Brandon (5-0, 1 KO) did it Sam is lithe against Jonatas Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira (6-19, 5 KO).

Bevan is a beast! 💥💥@TaylorBevan__ Drops I stops Kajda in the second round! #Nxten #LIDDARDOSAZE pic.twitter.com/5jieuba3

– boxing matchroom (@matchroomboxing) January 31, 2025

Emmanuel Buttigieg (7-0, 1 KO), Medium Weight Perspectives, he won the win of 58-56 on the results card of the judge with James Todd (4-5-2), and on the super weight of the average Medium Taylor Bevan (2-0, 2 KO) He won the victory of the second round with Poland Szymon Kajda (1-1-1, 1 KO), who was twice from the upper, before detention.

Peter Fury gave Anthonia Joshua an unaffected council when the former world champion in bulky weight who turns his next movement.

After his crushing defeat with Daniel Dubois, in September last year there was a lot of speculation about what Joshua would do – but Fury undoubtedly doubts what he wants to see.

Promoter Eddie Hearn He was teasing with the long -awaited showroom between “AJ” and Deontay Wilder, despite the fact that the American looked like a shell of his once destructive himself in losses with Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang.

Fury, however, imposed the idea of ​​Wilder’s fight and begged Joshua to return to Dubois and try to become a three -time world champion in bulky weight.

In an interview with IFL TVA valued trainer begged a man from Watford to “stop around”.

“Joshua has a few balls because he proved himself. But show an even larger pair and go back from Dubois!

“Stop the fuck around. Stop walking around the houses, saying that I will fight Wilder. I am in boxing, I’m not in business rewards.

“This is a great business opportunity. It is not worth boxing as I look at it.

“If Joshua wants to move, prove yourself [as] The best and is a three -time world champion in bulky weight, he intends to a rematch of a fight in which he was poorly beaten and detained.

“This is the fight I want to see.”

The rematch between Joshua and Dubois probably hangs on the result of the latter Defense of the world title against Joseph Parker, which takes place on February 22 in Riyadh.

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In addition to connecting with the clash with Wilder, Joshua was also associated with the fight with Congi -President Martin Bakol and the rematch with the long -term national rival of Dillian Whyte.

The former Olympic champion would almost certainly go to the second fight with Dubois as a significant weaker, but this may be his only option if he wants to capture gold in bulky weight.