When I read your comment ,"Great Attractor" attack from Final Fantasy VIII comes to mind when you and your party are hit with two planets and an asteroid. o_O
And it wasn’t any evil intent like when Tyson hits he wants to damage organs this monster hits was just power that made you want to fold up can’t imagine blocking a punch with my arms and I took just as much damage as if I didn’t smfh TF
One of the nicest men you’ll ever meet. I had the pleasure of meeting him out at a restaurant in Kingwood, Texas and he was absolutely amazing with children.
@@hahacrackhead4100 When Foreman was a trouble youth and someone owed him money, the guy ran back to his place and Foreman knocked his door down, held him upside down by his feet and took the money. Shit is like out of a cartoon
@@hahacrackhead4100 I don't know how true to the letter it is, but I don't doubt Foreman could do shit like this. He was insanely strong. Just look at that guy on the heavybag. It doesn't have it in this clip, but maybe a few seconds before the guy mentions "Foreman would go into the gym and he would pick out the biggest heaviest bag". So that, plus the fact his trainer is moving the bag into his punches and holding onto the bag and Foreman STILL rocks him around while barely trying shows you just how powerful he is
The craziest thing I've ever seen in a boxing match is George Foreman's uppercut lifting Joe Frazier's feet up off the canvas. This man was power personified. Even an older version of Foreman was terrifying. Evander Holyfield, who also fought Tyson, Bowe and Lewis, has said multiple times that Foreman hit the hardest. Big George was a beast.
Joe Louis lifted Tony Galento off of the canvas as well he did it with a short left hook and he feet was even planted when he did it. Foreman and the great Joe Louis is the only two men to lift their opponents off the canvas with their punches.
Y para los que si sabemos no es un poder loco es más que eso yo e golpeado esta clase de sacos es más en mi país España campeones 2 veces de España e visto como an golpeado estos sacos y ver a George foreman está en top 3 de pegada del la historia del boxeo para mí esta en top 2 y el está en el primer lugar y el segundo tysom para mi tysom hera más agresivo pero en pegada para mi esta en el top 1 de pegada del boxeo esos golpes la mayoría de los mortales no llegamos a esa pegada terrorífica y la mayoría de los mortales no aguantaría de pie
Imagine knowing you're going to fight him, and your time slot in the gym is before his. You come in and train one day, and he comes in when you leave. The next day, you come in to train again, and the heavy bag looks like that.
He’s the only guy I’ve ever seen who’d throw a punch that looked that slow but regardless of where he connected the reactions of most people made it seem like they got hit by a fucking truck...his power was terrifying
Goerge was known to have a very heavy hand. Its like Letting someone punch you with their hand and then let them smack you on the head with a brick. The latter hurts more, even if its slower due to the weight and mass of the brick. Now times that by 13, and you just got killed by Goerge Foreman.
Holyfield said Foreman was the hardest puncher he ever faced. He said the punches were slow, but your whole boby felt it even if you blocked it with your arms. And this was old Foreman.
@@nomnom9426 Old Foreman was much bigger and stronger than his younger version. With a good 30-40 pounds added to his weight. Remember also that the Holyfield that fought Foreman was still basically a cruiser, weighing barely over 200lbs. Big George had what, 50 pounds over him that night? When Evander faced Lewis or Tyson he was bigger and stronger.
This man is literally denting the shit out of the bottom of a 150-200lb bag filled with sand. Absolutely devastating power. He was born with it, there is no amount of training you can do to achieve that strength if you ain't born with it.
I used to have a 125 lb everlast bag in the early 80`s. I took some of the sand bags out , because my hands were getting so beat up . George is destroying his bag .
He used to chop trees too, which seems like a great workout to develop torque power & speed, hitting baseballs seems like it would have a similar effect but with less power needed.
@@RogerYeahmon Not filled with sand. It was filled with some kind of synthetic fiber or foam , with some small sand bags inside .You`re right about a bag filled with sand would destroy his hands.
@@toddjohnson271 Liston took a dive it's still crazy people think Ali knocked him out nahh but either all respect to Ali the only guy who beat prime foreman while being out of his prime himself 💀
@Weghweh Hwewehwhe IDK man. According to Ali, Wepner, and George Johnson, Liston hits harder than Foreman. Johnny Tocco, a trainer who worked with Tyson, Foreman, and Liston also stated that Sonny hit the hardest among the three. There is also this statement from George that Liston can push 3 heavy wheel barrels on a slope as compared to him capable of pushing only 1.
Anyone who has punched a heavy bag at the bottom knows damn well how powerful George is hitting these bags. No wonder he was able to get the belt back late in his life.
I wouldn't be surprised if under those gloves were the tops of sledge hammers. George could probably fuck up a car that's been turned into a cube for scrap metal
all my years of being around martial arts to this day, I have never seen anyone leave a dent in a heavy bag like that. People don't realize how much power it takes to do that. It's hard to do that even with kicks
@@jundullah9869boxing fits the criteria to be considered a martial art. Also there are plenty of martial arts which are also combat sports and vice versa. Boxing is a combat sport which aids in physical and spiritual development, it has a long history and culture dating all the way back to the Ancient Greeks and has a fundamental science behind it and a systematic method to it with its various styles and punches which is all you need to classify it as a martial art. The problem is that when people hear martial arts they tend to think of only eastern arts and/or martial arts that are good for general fitness and mental well-being but not very practical when it comes to actual combat.
He was in Utica for some type of an exhibition when I was in high school in 1977. He and his whole entourage stayed at the Treadway Inn in New Hartford, NY where I worked as a busboy. He was absolutely frightening how big and powerful he was. When he sat down in the dining room to eat dinner he looked like he was sitting at the little kid's table. Absolutely massive!
To put into context, prime punchers, holyfield, morrison and Briggs were prepared to go toe2toe with bowe, tyson, ruddock etc respectively, and yet all got on there bike against a 42-48 year old version of him. Thats the fear his power put into fighters.
They were afraid that Lennox was going to hurt George that's why they took the Shannon Briggs fight away from him because they didn't want to see him get hurt on their watch. He was 48 years old and he clearly beat Briggs.
@@KeithFroehlich07Many clean shots in Lennox would put a hurting on old George. But Lennox didn't want to eat anything clean from George, would have been curtains
@@KeithFroehlich07 Would have been an interesting fight. Lewis wouldn't have gone to to toe with Foreman though, nobody would. That's the point. If you stood in front of Foreman, you got KO'd. No matter how old he was, no matter who you were. The only guys who beat him kept their distance and used their speed.
The guys shoulder was visibly hurt when foreman hit the bag if the fingers got hit it wouldve felt like someone slamming an old solid steel car door down on your fingers in the middel of winter at maximum force...
lol not really, his fingers would be between two cushioned objects, the bag and his 16 oz gloves. I'm sure hes caught his fingers on multiple occasions.
There used to be ads in magazines that said " if you want to know what if feels like to be hit by George Foreman, tape this (boxing glove photo) to the wall and run in to it.
it's absolutely insane how you can clearly see the relatively slow punch making it's way to the bag and still see how bizarrely powerful it is when it connects, this dude had the strength of a bull
What really shows you his power isn't even when you see the heavy bag buckling from the punches. It's when they scan down to show you his feet. They're close together, almost flat. To throw punches with anywhere near that kind of force, most other professional heavyweights would be in a much wider stance, twisting and lunging into the shot. Foreman had ALL of that power just in his torso and his arms. Insane.
@@quiett6191 I really wish we saw him do a 100% power shot where he would turn his whole body into the shot as fast as he could and as hard as he could, most the time he looks like he’s not even trying but still knocks them out, always confuses me and still kinda does
You're very dumb ... some people that who don't even boxe develop parkinson a fight against foreman will not will not give you parkison (all the boxer who fought in the 70s would get it ) Ali was just unlucky :) it is whole career as a boxer that maybe caused his parkinson
what would u say for freddie roach he was also unlucky come on now its the truth boxing 101 keep your hands up ali was one of the best for sure but he took too many hits specially from heavy weight division like getting hit by a truck
@@elkevinski from what I've seen, also big-boned, good genes. He definitely took a dive against Ali though. There seemed to be higher powers that wanted to advance Ali's career, and keep insisting that he was the greatest ever.
@@monkeyb1820 Not only big-boned. He had a freakish reach, 84 inch reach. That's more than Foreman's reach, 78, which is crazy considering that Foreman was taller. Also has the record for the biggest hands in boxing. 15 inch size fists from what I've seen. I've seen only one who had bigger hands, and that was Andre the Giant lol, and only by 1 inch. He also must've been way stronger, since he grew up in a farm where he did heavy work since a child. Liston is one of the sport most intimidating men of any time for a reason. Going against him must've been frightening. Also I agree with you about him taking a dive. The more you look into it, the more fake that fight looks. Don't know what exactly happened in the first fight though.
@@elkevinskiI haven't watched as much of Liston--but he could well have had even better genetics than Foreman. I just watched much of Ali-Lison 1 and it was probably some kind of fix too. Ali was nowhere near the power fighter, and was mostly a glorified Tyrell Biggs at that time. Ali wasn't actually all that impressive then Liston's corner stopped it (on cuts). Just very fishy that the much stronger veteran would lose to a dancing and light-hitting 22 year old. The NOI had all kinds of ties to the CIA. We'll never know the full truth about how/why Ali was pushed to being 'the greatest', but I think something fishy was going on. Foreman never got a rematch and Foreman's water may have been drugged, and Ali wanted Foreman to have the same lousy cornerman. Objectively, Foreman was better (in spite of the loss that day).
@@monkeyb1820 why y crying bro. how can u say first one was fixed. He cheated and blinded ali but still got whooped. Ali is undefeated against power hitters. Sonny had nothing to beat fast ali. What's yr proof of drugged foreman. He always had bad gas tank. He lost to out of prime ali
The base of the bag is where all the sand settles and compact until hard, how a man is able to punch and LITERALLY carve a concave hole in a solid heavybag base is beyond me 😮🥊💯👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
I don't know if this is true for older bags, but most punching bags have bags of sand and stuffed full of cloth. Hence why they can get so big and not weigh as much
Imagine prime Foreman sitting in your guard raining down punches on you as your head bounces off the floor. In interviews he's always mentioned that if MMA was around in his time he would've done that instead.
@@TheHiddenNarrative He would have taken one look at the pay and turned back to boxing lmao but if we made up a scenario where both sports pay the same that would be amazing, he already was a great clinch fighter in boxing.
Hard hitters in boxing have more punching power than anyone in mma. Not saying that boxers are better but they've got more punching power and the reason is obvious.
Jim Brown wrote a article in a magazine back in the fall of 1974, and it recently resurfaced on the internet. It went like Jim Brown went over to Africa to see the Rumble in the Jungle with George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. a guy came over and knocked on Jim Brown's hotel room door. Jim Brown opened up and the fella said George Foreman can't keep any sparring partners. He said I don't understand why they all just quit on him! And he said he don't have anyone to spar with at all. So Jim Brown said he have to have somebody to spar with. So he thought to himself I'm in great shape! so he told the guy let me get my shoes and I'll go down there with you and I'll spar with him. Jim Brown said they walk down all most to where Foreman was hitting the heavy bag.and but was still a half block away and he could hear this big smashing sound going BOOM,BOOM,BOOM type sound.and he asked the guy what the hell is that? And the guy said that's George Foreman hitting the heavy bag. So Jim Brown said so where is he at? And the guy said he still a half a block down sir and he's indoors inside of the cinder block building. Jim Brown said you gotta to be kidding me! He said no we still have a half a block to go. And he's inside and the door is closed. So they get down there and open the door and see Foreman hitting the heavy bag from a distance but the sound was insanely powerful like he never heard a human being hit the bag before. So Jim Brown said NO! Hell NO! I'm not getting in there to spar with him and he's gonna hit me like that. MR Brown said he could seriously hurt you with them kind of blows, i mean I would of been thinking about my health and even life! And he said he had imediately knew why all of George Foreman sparring partners had quit. He said Muhammad Ali was a good friend of his and he went over to Ali's hotel room and said man you better be careful, I mean this guy can really hit like nobody else. You taking a chance with your life. Jim Brown said Ali soaked it in. He said I don't think it's so much he was scared. but he soaked it in like he was using the info as knowledge to preparing himself for what he had to tackle. Like He knew it was something that wasn't going to be easy. But Jim Brown said he will always remember how George Foreman was hitting that heavy bag over in Africa. He said every time his mind just say Damn!
punches were slow but heavy as hell. one of his opponents said Frazier's punch was like a Cadillac coming at you 100 mph. while big Georges punch was like a mack truck coming at you 50 miles an hour.
It's scary because this isn't crazy explosive power, it's just freakishly heavy hands chopping down on the bag like a 12 pound sledgehammer, you see him beating on it over and over again until the bag is literally almost completely straightened out, it doesn't matter if you're perfectly blocking it or not, hands like that will give you PTSD
he was one of those guys who could punch someone who was blocking and still hurt them badly, one of his tricks was to knock their guard down with his jab hand and launch a power punch that usually ended in a KO
No pain for me! The sudden lack of barometric pressure caused by his fist movement would suck all the air out of my lungs and put me to sleep well before he ever hit me.
When a guy this strong jabs at you, it looks and feels like there's a big, spring-loaded fence post hitting you in the head. Over and over. It's a real bad feeling.
Man, this is the same hands to knock down Joe Frazier repeatedly; the hands to eventually stop Ron Lyle in their notorious slug fest; same hands to deleiver a solid 1-2 combination to Michael Moorer and KO him. Makes you think what Muhammad Ali was made of when he consumed these punches and taunted Foreman in the ring when he said ''is that all you got?''...amazing!
+John Michael He didnt want take em either. Thats why he layed on the roped and tired him out, moving away from the punches. However the willpower to take even a few of these fucking shots, its Amazing. Its like getting hit by a car.
An absolute killer in the ring. One of the best to ever do it. Also shows the Sheer Will of Ali to step in the ring with this beast of a man and defeat him. Today's heavyweight boxers can never match this legends.
They had to pay the sparring partners top dollar for Foreman , because they would walk out. On one tape , he wasn`t allowed to punch the guy in the head.
From what I have seen, George Foreman was the strongest and hardest hitting boxer in history. Mohammed Ali took incredible punishment in their famous fight. That is what makes Ali’s victory so incredible.
I box so I definitely be hitting it hard and making it move and I’m only a featherweight but George style wouldn’t last in today’s boxing back then this was considered great bag work present day if u hit the bag like this in the gym you’ll probably get laughed at and criticized
Bro, he hit the bottom part where it's denser and harder. Average guys prob get 3-4 inches of bag movement punching there, and this dude needs to have someone behind the bag to stop it from flying around too much..... They even struggle holding it in position at times. What a beast.
Crazy thing is big George isn't even really winding up. It appears those shots are at about 75% of his power. Imagine if he had you hurt, didn't have to worry so much about defense, and really went all out.
if you weren't prepeared for it and your stomach wasn't fully tensed and was just relaxed you could have serious serious problems it could even kill you if in the right spot around belly button area or in the side
Moorer said he was out on his feet before that. Foreman hit him with a 1-2 a few times that round and he was paralysed. Biggest mistake Moorer ever made was going toe-to-toe with Foreman instead of doing what Morrison did for the last few rounds.
i had an argument with someone i know saying that the greats of back then would whoop modern heavyweights, i gave foreman as an example. Foreman would whoop 99% of heavyweights nowadays. idc if the average height has gotten a few inches taller
@@ChunkyPuffsRaichu 70s version would end both in less than 5, most don't realize how refined his boxing skills were, he used his strength perfectly and cut the ring like no one else, there simply was no escape unless they magically became Ali in the 60s, they would just have to meet him at some point and go toe to toe and then after a few exchanges George is talking to the press while Wladimir/Tyson are given smelling salts to come back to this world.
Well the 6’3 220 pound usyk just became champion. He’s the same size as foreman, ali, n Norton. Just goes to show that size doesn’t always matter with these modern heavyweights
0:35 it literally sounds like a horse slowly trotting. Now imagine a horse named George pummeling an opponents midsection the way he did that heavy bag. I don’t even think he used all of his strength.
In boxing Lore Ali took the most beating and punches of Foreman and survived but it's said he was literally pissing blood and sore for weeks and all those hits from that fight probably helped further his CTE.... Although if any single fighter can be blamed most for Ali it's Earnie Shavers
This is how you develop power, you practice it day in, day out on the heavy bag. Not many went as hard on the bag with repetitive power punches the way Foreman did. Throw a few hundred punches like that and you're bound to get stronger over time.
Now imagine Evander Holyfield saying that older George hit him harder than anyone he ever fought. He said he asked his corner if George knocked his teeth out. And Ali said Earnie Shavers hit harder than anyone. Only person that hit harder than George was Shavers.
Yes. He admitted right after that he was dumb for only punching and not boxing. Old George’s skill + young George’s body would be a real sight to see. Cheers
I remember this footage -- taken while Foreman was in training for his fight against Ali. It is the only time I have ever seen a boxer put an indentation in a heavy bag, and move it from side to side with a 200 lb man hanging on to it. To be sure, he had his limitations, but for my money he was the hardest hitter in the history of the heavyweight division.
Only half an inch difference in height and 1 stone in weight. Not a huge difference... Ali hit hard aswell. Just that fast no one saw the power the same way.
Maybe he's in the top three because even Foreman said in a recent interview with Max Kellerman that Wilder threw that right hand better than he did. But one thing Foreman does better by a lot than Wilder is actually boxing and knowing where to put your feet. Wilder doesn't know that the way Big George does.
@@punodelgato9001, the only thing Wilder has on Foreman is speed. Everything else he's light-years behind Big George. I'm not trying to crap on Wilder. I'm just being objective. Cheers.
