You've got to be kidding. Chuvalo is one of the most well-articulated boxers of his period. Any other man than Chuvalo would have crumbled beneath the punishment he took. Listen to the man talk, he has absolutely no speech impedement what so ever.
I wouldn't say "no speech impediment whatsoever" lol. He speaks fairly clearly, but you can still hear some slight stumbles and slurs here and there. He's been affected for sure but not as much as some unfortunate others.
George's Skull must be as thick as concrete, this dude fought every major heavyweight of his era and went toe to toe with each one, never backing up. GREAT FIGHTER!!
Muhammad Ali once said that if every heavyweight title fight was 75 rounds long that George Chuvalo would be heavyweight champion. Good fighter and a heck of a nice guy.
Not taking anything from George, he could take a shot better than anyone I've ever witnessed, but he was human. He had a super human chin but, he was still human and if they didn't stop the fight with Foreman I firmly believe that he would have been dropped and stopped. Nonetheless hes a legend.
I don't know how old this video is, but he's very articulate and looks good for a 76-year old former boxer who fought the cream of the crop (Ali, Frazier, Foreman)....never got knocked down or out
chuvalo is way overlooked. he fought & held his own in a great era, yet he gets overlooked. its obvious from this interview, his intelligence component added to his abilities.
I hadn't heard him talk in his older years. I was expecting a super chinny mumbling slow talking man who isn't with it after all the punishment he's taken. You wouldn't even know he's a fighter by the way he talks. Very intelligent.
Chuvalo is so right. Strong neck muscles are needed for ability to take a punch.. Having a short neck helps as your head is protected by your shoulders if you move correctly and use the right boxing stance.
At his prime, Mike Tyson would have beaten any of them. A Tyson versus Morrison fight would have been incredible, but again Tyson would have beaten him too...a young Mike Tyson. He wasn't the same aggressive fighter when he got older.
What I really have noticed lately is how polite and well spoken these fighters of the past are or were in some cases. None that I've listened to acted childish nor resorted to profanity. Definitely a major component missing in the world of sports today.
@@smiechu47 There have been more modern guys who had that old school politeness. Lennox Lewis, for example. For the old school guys, Floyd Patterson was like the nicest most polite guy in the world.
This isn't about avoiding punches, its about taking punches and not dropping. He's explaining, very well, the structural things that it takes to absorb a punch well. There are also neurological differences in the brain but that's beyond a layman's knowledge. Man is not created equal, that's just new age guff which should be replaced with 'treat people with respect & kindness'.
@@crabb9966 Because people aren't equal. Women and men aren't the same. Fat and skinny aren't the same. Rich and poor aren't the same. Strong and weak aren't the same.
George is an absolute champ! I met him a few times what a decent human being, the tragedy this man has suffered in his life and he still a humble human being. Tough as nails!
great to see him looking and sounding so well, he sounds very like rocky marciano the way he speaks and little expressions. definitely one of the most durable ever, glad he`s in good shape.
I love his use of the Philly defence when Foreman was battering him. He basically neutralised Foreman's right hand and made him punch him in the back about 10 times.
I wouldn't say unfortunate simply because he was able to compete with a lot of those guys back then too. We're talking about a guy who fought over 90 pro fights and was never floored or KO'd by anyone and that's including the fact that he took Ali for 15 rounds when Ali was still in his prime before the 3 year layoff. That's one hell of an achievement considering the fact that he was in the most talent rich era in heavyweight history.
George said in an interview recently that he had a doctor do a brain scan on his brain, and when they got the test results, the doctor was in sheer shock. He asked George if he had been a fighter, little did he know that George had not only been a prize fighter and a heavyweight legendary Canadian champion, but he also had not been knocked the canvas in 96 fights! What’s most amazing about this story is that the brain scan showed no evidence or hardly any damage of Georgia’s brain, considering that he fought the likes of Ali, Patterson, Foreman, Quarry, Foley, Williams, Frazier, and many other top contenders of that era! George Chuvalo was tough as nails and a granite chin as mentioned and he has been overlooked and undervalued as a legendary boxer! Thanks for the great footage! And thanks George, your awesome!
My dad and uncle saw him fight Ali in Toronto in 66 and he toured just about every Canadian high school for decades talking to kids about drugs and depression and boxing and life (he lost his wife and kids to both). Guy's a legend up here, champ in my eyes. Cheers.
He not only is the only 10 heavyweight to never kiss canvas. George holds the record for most main events at MSG. His first match against Ali he only had a few weeks to prepare as the original opponent backed out. After 15 rounds, George went dancing and Ali went to the hospital. In 72 in Vancouver if Ali was not champ George would have been given the match. But it a known practice that the challenger has to beat the champ not the other way around and all even things fall to the reigning champ.
George is really onto something as far as the science of him being better at taking punches than other people. He has an immaculate fighting record for sure to back it up.
This meshes well with what my late mother, who was in the political game, once told me after having what she described as the "delightful experience" of having lunch with Chuvalo and some others. Charming, articulate, funny, and a gentleman, were among the words she used, And she knew a bit about boxing too, at least enough to know that while George Chuvalo may never have been heavyweight champion of the world he will always be a Canadian hero.
Chuvalo soaked bloody cutting blows like a human sponge in the ring and never going down on the canvas despite being pounded at will by the mighty fists of George Foreman !
That fight was a bullshit stoppage. God damned referee got upset by George's wife and manager who over reacted and fucked up the fight. Foreman was throwing punches out the window and wasting his strength. He didn't catch Chuvalo with anything half way useful when he got him in the corner. Just sloppy garbage like when ali rope a doped him. Foreman confided in Chuvalo months after the fight. "Thank God the ref stopped it, I had nothing left if it went over 5 rounds." Foreman always lacked stamina. Those big long looping punches that just glanced off his opponents bodies and tops of the heads were pretty funny too. Christ, why didn't Foreman's trainers teach him anything about short, accurate punches and saving some energy. Chuvalo would have knocked the kid out in the 7th.
He was man's man that's for sure... if fights were to the finish he might have been champ.. he fought in the greatest era of heavyweight history... not many today could take him... specially the current champ Klits..
Klitschkos might be not that entertaining for a casual like you. Klitschko would beat the crap out of chuvalo. Vitali Klitschko would even beat Ali, these arent cruiserweights weighing 190 pounds like frazier, these are 6ft6+ super heavyweight men 245pounds+ whi actually can box
LEGEND. His family comes from a town in Herzegovina that's about 20 mins away from where my family comes from. Coincidentally, having been in a massive amount of fights myself (moving from country to country after the war made me an "easy target" for many attacks, and I could never take that shit passively) and never being knocked out despite all manner of black and swollen eyes...I'm kinda getting a possible hint as to why that was. We Herzegovinians are thick-skulled mofos haha. Now.... I live in the Junction, Toronto...where he lived when he got into boxing.
George is, I believe, the only boxer to survive the 60's, and it's amazing how lucid he is at this point in life. Good for him! Good fighter but an even better man from what I've learned about him.
Foreman survived the 60s. This video is pretty old. Unfortunately Chuvalo is confined to a Toronto care facility these days, suffering from advanced dementia. From the effects of boxing or just old age? We will never know for certain.
@@richardweiler6931 Ja ich gebe dir Recht das Mister Chuvalo von Alzheimer erkrankt hat. Aber alt ist er genügend und noch Box. Er ist so wieso eine Legende und bleibt in unsere Gedanken. Er stammt aus einer Kroatische Familie von Bosnien und Hercegovina. Geboren in Toronto 1937 und seine Familie hat schwer und hat er Box ausgewählt weil damals das war ein gut bezahlte Geschäft. Big Gritting from Germany. 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇭🇷🇭🇷♥️✝️👍
@k1d n1ce Yeah no shit your talking about someone that trained there whole like to hurt people even in his 80s George foreman could still ko 90 percent of the people on planet earth there also extremly durable
bro do some neck exercises and shit but dont let that stop you from fighting. theres plenty of fighters out there with long necks and small heads the will is the most important factor
Jorge lopez Imao @ your original post. I liked it because i find it conveys a lot of humor. I figured you wouldn't get knocked out by the first jab thrown. How goes the training so far?
I would love to see a prime chuvalo fight lewis he fought more than one legend in their prime lewis fought two washed up legends and idiots are saying he's ali lmao what a joke
What an enjoyable fellow. I think a little bit of the greatness of the champs from his era rubbed off on him, even in his losses. He should also be recognized for his contributions to the greatness of those fighters.
Two other fighters from that era had nearly as good of chin. Henry Clark, and Chuck Weiner. Clark got pounded on by Liston, Norton, Shavers (twice!) and Mercado, without going down. Wepner’s only KD/KO was to Ali, due to pure exhaustion. He had big losses to Liston, Foreman and others, but due to bleeding without going down. Neither of those guys bad Chuvalo’s skill though. George did have very good defensive skills. Wepner had almost no defense, and a “face first” style.
He was defensively underrated but some of the combination he took would knock most boxers off their feet. He's fight with George foreman was incredible, don't know how he was upright after that onslaught and he was getting caught clean. Taking one big shot from George foreman was enough but to take clean combination is just crazy. George chuvalo chin is made out of granite
George Chuvalo , the bleuprint of Rocky Balboa , is such a lovely man! love to see that George is still very healthy and fine in this video , what a diamond he is.....................
He is a much better defensive fighter than given credit for. Parrys a lot of shots that look like they landed. Can't help but think that's why he lost a lot of desicions, officials not noticing how fast his parrys were
i think thats why its better to start training whatever sport you like when youre a kid at a young age, that way when you grow up it will be easier to use your body naturally and easier , when i was around 14 i use to do push ups around 40 minutes few times a week, i would do as many as i can, i have a very big chest naturally and is hard as a rock, i can do over 200 push ups non stop even today
yes, tenacious a boxer at his time, exasperating all his opponents...up to many specialist 1st fight against Ali was a draw...and the 2nd not very far to be one too. He looks good for his age and I'm happy to see that.
I'm reading Tris Dixon's book "The Road to Nowhere" where he interviews Chuvalo about his chin. Got curious so I looked up how he's doing today and unfortunately it seems he's deteriorated so much since this video.
Neck strength/thickness (Length maybe has a say, but some guys with great chins have longer necks), head size and density, leg strength, trap strength/size
I like this slurred boxer speech where they blend 2 to 3 words together at a time. Like: I actuausedtohave protruding jaw muscles. But all jokes aside, Chuvalo is in great condition for a man who boxed in 507 professional rounds in 93 fights. The man is a living legend.
he fought foreman and got tagged many times and never dropped...frazier is said to have had an iron chin and foreman dropped him like 6 times with single punches so yo chuvalo is the real deal...and btw his speech is good for a fuckin 70+ year old and he stutters the same way obama stutters its not from brain damage its from connecting ideas too quickly without a pause i do the same thing
I don't know why but the Ali vs chuvalo 1 looks exactly like the rocky fight,the Wepner Ali only has the random knock down but bcause he stepped on his shoe
