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Old Foreman trained with weights. His legs had greater muscle mass than when he was younger. I don't recall him ever taking a backwards step during his second career. In 1970, fellow strongman Chuvalo was the one who succeeded in standing his ground before George stunned him. But in 1991, he seemed to never take a backwards step against the powerful Holyfield (who was likely juiced and later shoved Tyson all over the place), then repeatedly pushed back the admitted steroid user Morrison repeatedly with ridiculously casual ease. George did not even step back when Lakusta and Cooney rocked him. I would have dearly loved to see Ruiz attempt his clinching act on Foreman, who may well have pushed him right through the ropes and into the laps of ringsiders. Prime Foreman did not outmuscle Chuvalo, was actually moved back during his brief encounter with Gullick, and even Peralta was able to stand his ground at times. Ultimately, Ali was able to match his physicality in Kinshasa, and actually shoved George off a few times with his back braced against the ropes. We saw nobody do anything like this with Old Foreman. Don't sell Marciano short. Very low center of gravity, which Goldman refined and amplified by getting him to punch up (a rare accomplishment), and the powerful Rex Payne utterly failed to force Rocky on the back foot, torpedoing his entire strategy. (Marciano's vastly superior hand speed did the rest.) Rocky was a center on the high school gridiron, a fairly unusual background for a boxer to which he later attributed some of his slowness of foot. However, it also made him miserably difficult to move back in a way young Foreman sometimes could be.