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Hi, Dom, can't say really as I'm not really into boxing at all. Nonetheless I stayed up until 5.20 AM to watch the fight. I thought Schulz was looking good, but I was surprised Foreman was really moving! The last fights (they showed a portrait of him before the actual fight) he seemed to just stand there and hit his opponents senseless if they were stupid enough to go near him. 😉 Well, I learned a bit about the difference between amateur (that's where Schulz and his coach are coming from) and professional boxing – in an amateur fight Schulz would have won because he landed more punches than Foreman (each landed hit counts). In pro-boxing that doesn't seem to count as much as 'looking good', and Foreman definitely was looking like he was chasing Schulz around the ring… Schulz maybe was a bit too passive in several phases of the fight so I think the judges can't be really blamed for declaring him the winner (114-114, 115-113, and 115-113 points I believe they had to be quite impressed with Schulz' effort). After all, this is big business – and the real BIG fight of the century has got to be between Foreman and Tyson before some nobody like Schulz may become world champion… // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany