George Foreman vs. Shannon Briggs was a professional boxing match contested on November 22, 1997, for the Lineal heavyweight championship.
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George Foreman vs. Shannon Briggs was a professional boxing match contested on November 22, 1997, for the Lineal heavyweight championship.
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Foreman clearly won; but the winner was slated to go against Lewis. This was a very rare case where it was a 'net gain' for everyone. Foreman was nearly 49 I think, would have been mauled by Lewis. Briggs at least could put up a fight until Lewis took care of him. Due to the rare situation of Foreman being very old and actually quite ponderous at this point, I'm at peace with the bad decision (and I have a feeling George is too).
That's the consequence of the sport brain damage,,eventually it takes it toll that's just the nature of the sport and the people who run it. Money over health stupidity over permanent brain damage.
While I had Big George winning this, it was a lot more competitive than I'd been led to believe… Briggs is countering on the backfoot, but getting no credit at all for any success by a seriously biased commentary team. It creates an illusion that it was wider than it was.
I remember in "The Best I Faced", Briggs said that Lewis was the best boxer he'd faced technically, and that Vitali and Lewis hit about the same… but that Big George was incomparable, just in a different league.
Briggs was a bum
Foreman got robbed
Foreman won every aspect of the fight.
WHAT?
The holy spirit is what kept goerges brain. If that was God's will for him was to do God kept him. God does the impossible when we're in his will
1:14:05 George was robbed that night and the crowd knew it!
WTF???
Foreman at 48 – incredible. Still he knew not to mess with Lewis, Bowe or Tyson or even the slightly lesser big guys like Ruddock or Tua. George was a canny guy.
Most bullshit decision I have ever seen. Typical of Irish Noah has they always stab u in the back
Foreman was granted so many wins that should be losses. Example #1 Foreman vs. Alex Stewart. Stewart beat him into a lumpy busted up unrecognizable person. Foreman never landed on 90% of his shots, Axel Schultz beat the breaks off Foreman, among other fights that were games for George when the other man was the winner no doubt. In his 20's he was a horrific boxer. He had zero ability to punch without winding his punches up from behind his back. The jolly fat man everyone loved and tolerated was a big fake fraudulent act pulled off by George. I live in Vegas and lived a career around boxers and watching him be the rudest most hateful man I have ever met was the normal. What was sickening was the switch that flipped when cameras turned on. When cameras went on I have seen him time and again go from rudely bashing men and women and even slapping alot of men around. Instantly he'd become this fake jolly man who would make fun of himself and be likeable. He was not a nice man but most spectators think of George as loveable and kindhearted. He is absolutely not. Only a self centered man names all of his kids after himself, even hid daughters. He is a narcissistic wind bag full of garbage and lies. George in the 70's was a joke but he was real. George of the 1990's was a fake scripted character he created to pull himself from bankruptcy. Which good for him not giving up but don't be a liar and be who you are. NOBODY will like him though because as I said he is the rudest and meanest person in the sport back in the 90's. He is a joke.
George Foreman is now 74 and no sign of any brain injuries, this man is blessed by God.
Hey Foreman, That young man is going to remember those upper – cuts that you put on
It would have been a better pick to fight the guy who beat Tyson, if George won that would have been History. ! ! !
Holy field stood toe to toe with George, No running, that's why He's the Warrior ! ! !
Boxing history books well say , Who's Shannon Briggs ? ?
I love big George
George Foreman is a real man. Young men this is how u conduct urself
Looked like they were sparring in a gym….I thought George won. It was also good this was Georges final fight because he finally looked aged here…
The simple truth is this: Shannon Briggs beat George Foreman because nothing happens in a New Jersey boxing ring unless Larry Hazzard, commissioner of the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, wants it to. Two of the judges in the fight, Calvin Claxton & Larry Layton, only credentials to be boxing judges were that they were friends of Hazzard’s. Claxton, who was not licensed to be a judge anywhere other than in New Jersey had judged one previous bout, the prior year’s Witherspoon-Mercer fight. In a very close fight, he somehow came up with a 97-91 score for Mercer – who coincidentally, like Briggs, was managed by Marc Roberts. Layton had only judged one previous fight, involving Jesse Ferguson was also managed by Hazzard’s close cohort, Marc Roberts. Hazzard it appeared, had a feud going with Foreman’s promoters, the well-known music biz impresarios, Irving Azoff & Jeff Wald, since the Foreman-Savarese fight the previous April. Reportedly he had to be pulled off Azoff in the ring after the fight. In order to avoid similar unpleasantness, Hazzard just canceled the rules meeting – coincidentally, the one time when a fighter’s camp gets the chance to protest the choice of officials.