Both these videos have a feature where you can slow down the speed Tyson: 37:27 This content is protected George foreman 13:52 This content is protected
Nice, and check this out, I found a great quality slow mo of the Foreman punch. https://streamable.com/4g3m1 What a punch! If you think Frazier voluntarily took a knee right there...um....
It kind of pulls his legs away from under him, still looks odd but as gil clancy "said one good punch at that weight can make a man do a lot of funny things"
Yes, it is possible. I think some people have no idea the ridiculous levels of power top athletes are working with. My comment on the other thread was that a human being be able to lift a 200kg barbell overhead from the floor in one motion seems far more incredible than a heavyweight being able to momentarily lift an opponent a few inches with a punch. But we know it happens anyway. Even the 'average' 210 pound well-built and weight-trained individual would be in danger of having his neck broken by a prime Tyson or Foreman punch. Even journeymen heavyweights who succumbed in one round were somewhat accustomed to absorbing heavyweight punishment. And usually they too were lucky or wise enough to get beat before they had to taste the one of Mike or George's BEST punches.
Frazier's legs looked already gone by that time and he was kinda stumbling to his right by the impact of the punch but in trying not fall over, the momentum kinda made him hop in the air, in his failed effort to still upright. This was like a second or two after the punch. So it's not really like Foreman hit him with a punch and Joe was instantly lifted into the air, with both feet off the ground before hitting the canvas. That's my take on it anyway.
Antuofermo said Eugene Hart was lifting him off the canvas with punches. I'm sure it's happened plenty of times.
Not an uppercut but Foreman pushes Bert Cooper several feet from a body punch This content is protected
The Frazier one is odd-looking so I'm not going to debate that. I don't know. But when people declare "it is physically impossible" for a man like Foreman to lift a man (or other suitable 210 pound object) a few inches off the floor with his best uppercut they clearly don't know what they are talking about. They prove they have no concept of the huge gulf between the absolute elite athlete and the ordinary (or even the 'above ordinary') man.
