Foreman never hit Ali with his best shot, right?

I'm glad you brought this up. Foreman says he hit Ali with everything; people always say Foreman hit Ali with his best, but I never thought that to be true. Well, I guess he hit him with his best, but he didn't fight his best for Foreman. First time I saw Rumble, I kept waiting for that massive explosion from Foreman, and it never came. He fought Ali with much more of a Joe Frazier type of approach, trying to push Ali into the ropes and wear him down with body blows. Foreman never hit Ali with the kinds of punches Frazier and Norton got creamed with.

 

George couldn't push Ali around like he pushed around other fighters. He just couldn't. Ali was the more physical fighter that evening.

 

To quote Ali “I told you all he didn’t hit hard”

 

I would have loved to see Bert Cooper fight 1974 Ali.

 

You're darn tootin right, sir.

 

He couldn't because he wasn't trying real hard to. Duh.

 

I am aware you were talking about that specific punch. I was addressing the thread title's question and the general consensus comment about Foreman's punching in that fight.

 

"Carnera had nothing."

 

You’re a coward, a liar, a ghoul and a heretic.

 

Yeah, I'm with you on this one.

You could probably add a few more question marks.

 

Not imo. He tried to wear Ali down, rather than expend everything in one round to knock Ali out.

 

Foreman was flat out unable to hurt Ali. It was always obvious when fighters actually hurt Ali because he would make exaggerated reactions or ofc actually look hurt. There was none of that against Foreman. On the contrary Ali was hurting Foreman all night and his punches even sounded louder/harder than Foreman's. Ali is just a bad matchup for Foreman but people think it's the other way around.