Foreman's Punching Power

You can only imagine what would've been if George threw his straight rights with perfect polished technique, like Wlad does.

Most of his opponents would've been carried out on a stretcher.

Yes, he had an unbelievable power and strength.

 

Yeah, I still don't understand how he was able to generate so much power when he seemed to get so little leverage on many of his punches.

 

I've watched them all from Ali to shavers to Lyle to Frazier to Foreman. I've never seen any hwt hit as hard as Foreman.

 

There have been harder hitters!

 

I've never seen any hwt dismantle a 300 pound heavy bag like Foreman. Average person punches bounce off such a bag. Most hwts struggle with it. Foreman toyed with it. Can't imagine a more brutal puncher.

 

George Foreman was SIMPLY AMAZING! When he came the first time....the world hadn't seen anything like him til then [we haven't seen anything like him since then either].
OF COURSE, Ali was expected to LOSE!
I am 59 years old now and STILL it shocks me how great a puncher and destroyer George Foreman was!

 

I watched George numerous times in training in upstate NJ. Foreman would pound a 300 pound bag with big sparring gloves and he would brutalize it. Push it around, hit it and make it move. Foreman hit that bag like an average hwt hit the 100 pound bag. He was the only hwt I watched in person whose power frightened me. Prime Foreman power way surpassed Frazier, Shavers or Lyle all of whom I also watched up close and personal.

 

Foreman was a naturally super powerful guy .. it's pretty certain he was 100% clean and he may have still been the strongest heavyweight that ever lived .. he was physical marvel ..

 

It's like debating which hurts more, getting run over by a freight train or getting hit by a 150 mph fastball. Lots of ways to hit with power.

Foreman had brute strength. If he pounded a guy to the canvas, he damaged that guy as much as a sharpshooter with more speed and precision. Maybe moreso.

Guys who fought him often used the word "numb" when describing what it was like to get hit by him. A glancing blow to the shoulder and your arm was numbed for a period of time. That's the top stratosphere of power IMO, and he had it.

But there's another thing: one of his comeback fights, they showed him getting gloved in the locker room. It took two men pulling to stretch that 10-ounce glove over his massive fist. Find photos of him ungloved making a fist and you'll see the mass of bone that's cracking the opponent .... It's like getting clubbed with a canned ham or a frozen chicken wrapped up in a sock, the glove stretched so thin that it provides little padding.

Never seen anything like him.

 

:clown

 

Fighting Freddy Askew who fought a young George and was ko'd quickly had this story about Foreman's power; Growing up on a farm in Tennessee one day Fred got too close behind an enraged horse and was kicked in the head with both rear hoofs. Out cold for hours his parents feared him for dead until he woke, Freddy said George hit harder.

 

S**** iron Johnson who spared with just about every top hwt of that time stated Foremans power was unreal. He never felt anything like it.

 

Okay. Okay.

In terms of uppercuts, yes, George could tutor Wladimir.

But that would be like the savant kid who gets otherwise straight D+ and C's tutoring an honor roll student who just happens to really struggle with algebra, dovetailing with the savant's given subject of excellence.

 

On this matter one of my brothers and my biggest gripes when Gil Clancey took over training George was by bringing his feet too close together Foreman's right uppercut, formerly thrown text book, now went sideways. Fortunately when big George made his comeback he went back to his normal stance and gate and threw both right and left uppercuts nicely.