Foreman ranks Mayweather-Pacquiao among top three fights of all time

George Foreman knows a thing or two about big fights, and he says the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao bout will rank among the top three of all time.

Foreman, interviewed for the HBO documentary "Mayweather-Pacquiao: Legends Speak," predicted the fight will rank alongside the first Ali-Frazier fight in 1971 and the rematch between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling in 1938.

Big George also predicted Pacquiao will take the title.

"If we've got good judges this time, it's go Pacquiao," Foreman said on a conference call this week. "Mayweather starts off early kind of looking for his timing and ... Pacquiao will pot shot him and get ahead on points and he'll stay ahead. He'll slow down later on and Mayweather will take on the more aggression but he doesn't have a right hand. He'll hurt his right hand. He can't get a knockout. So he'll just have to cruise on in and win or lose the fight just by a couple of points."

The former heavyweight champ said he knows what Mayweather would go through in losing his first fight.

"I was in that position when I lost to Muhammad Ali," Foreman said. "It wasn't like I lost the title. You lose your perspective of who you are as a human being. This could really knock him out. That's why I don't think there can easily be a rematch if Mayweather loses because you have to go out into the mountains somewhere, the hills somewhere, to try to find himself all over again. This could devastate him as a boxer. Not as a man, but as a boxer. This could devastate him, a loss."

Foreman also said he doesn't hold Mayweather's comments about being better than Ali against him.

"Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, we've had our day," Foreman said. "I mean, look, we can't do anything to help the future of boxing matches. Mayweather can. We've got to cheer for him. If that's what he needs to do is talk, great."

Check out Foreman on the special, which also includes interviews with Bernard Hopkins and Lennox Lewis, plus Oscar De La Hoya and Shane Mosley, both of whom faced Mayweather and Pacquiao.

And check out Foreman's other top two fights, it's a lot cheaper than watching Mayweather-Pacquiao.

HT: Yahoo