Did George Foreman's extra weight serve any bennefit in his 2nd career?

a lot of that extra weight ended up in his punches, he wasn't this devastating per punch when he was younger

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Yea he felt more comfortable, part of his stamina issues in his first career might have been due to his cutting weight, I think even when he was young he was a natural 230lber outside the ring.

As mentioned above it probably helped his punching power. His punches involve using his weight, Mike Tyson touches on that a little here.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/XCeSHi46v8g

I think it also helped with his strength. He was always very strong but in his second career he was tremendously strong. Holyfield supposedly said something about not being able to move him.

In the qawi fight Forman got down to his lightest weight of his comeback and even looked like his old self. But he had some difficulties and decided he was better of heavier.

 

I believe he also said something to the effect of the extra belly fat making him feel more hydrated during a fight so that he felt energized for longer stretches of the fight or something like that.

 

"i like being big, i like being big"
"i don't like losing that weight anymore"
"i like to be the biggest guy in the ring"
"they can be afraid of me"
"it's like telling a lion to lose weight to fight a house cat you know"

 

dunno how true it is, but love and embrace the attitude that inspires it, which has it's own benefits deep in the trenches.

 

It certainly helped in his popularity and punch resistance (which was good anyway). Even when he was largely being lampooned (around 87ish) Boxing News - typically ahead of the curve- stated that he was so big he’d be a difficult night for anyone. That’s why one of the mags hyped the potential Tyson fight as the Irresistible Force vs the Immovable Object.

 

i was writing a very similar thing when you posted that.

abs don't sell grills.

 

ha ha, true. I was always surprised Larry “Real Truth” Holmes didn’t do something similar and market an alcoholic beverage, e.g. Larry’s Fine Whine.

 

George was shrewd. Because he was fat he fooled the public into thinking he was jolly. He became likeable on the surface and that made him an effective pitchman. Underneath, he was an older version of the same guy. He was all business..

 

There was plenty of jolly as well tho, comparative to his older self. A lot of it.

 

….and/or a Lean, Mean, Peanut Roasting Machine.

In A Perfect World - wash down those nuts with Larry’s well aged Fine Whine.

Dad jokes rule!!!!!

 

Surely there's room for some mallard in there? Roast Mallard with peanut stuffing? Washed down with his Fine Whine?

 

For best punches in a fight I don’t think pleasantly plump old George hit harder, but better paced he could maintain a better average punch force for longer.

Young George was never SRR fast but he was appreciably faster than older George - the latter could put more weight into his shots, but due to that very weight and the normal effects of ageing, Old Foreman shots were very slow, with little additional force gained from speed.