1st. Powerful. He is denting what appears to be a decent bag. 2nd. WTF? This was before I had tasted boxing myself and I'd only seen Tyson work the bag until that point. Foreman looked like a genuine, bonafide bum... with mega power. [years pass] 3rd. Ah yes, that's Foreman. Boy, he had an odd punching style. Discuss.
If you refer to his clubbing the bag at Zaire, pre-Rumble: "one-dimensional." But can't blame him for not working on trickier stuff. He was viewed as an invincible champion who could bludgeon any man into defeat. And Ali was considered old. After Foreman turned Smokin' Joe Frazier into a basketball and Marine Ken Norton into a cowering 2-round kayo victim, no one would conceive of Ali's surviving such punishment against the ropes, however one-dimensional.
+1 You just wonder "what the **** will happen when he really puts all he got in that?" Mailer describes it very well in "The Fight".
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Freakish power. The bottoms of his feet are in every punch! I wasn't shocked that Muhammad Ali beat him, but I sure was shocked when I saw how he did it. How he withstood those blows from Foreman, I'll never fully understand. I seriously doubt if any other fighter could have withstood that pounding from George Foreman.
