It wouldn't have worked for him, had he been hunched over and throwing all those short hooks, he wouldn't have generated the same power he did with his long rangey punches.
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It wouldn't have worked for him, had he been hunched over and throwing all those short hooks, he wouldn't have generated the same power he did with his long rangey punches.
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I don't think it would have worked for Foreman. Tyson was small and used to come in and leap into his big hayemaker punches. I don't think this would have worked for a guy the size of George. He punched pretty damn hard himself though, and didn't do too badly did he?
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George Foreman was a freak of nature there will never be anybody who clubs as hard as he did with both hands.
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Big guys with long arms will never achieve the hand speed of the short-armed guys. That being said, George had amazing power, even though some of his punches looked like arm punches. Had George twisted his torso into his punches like Tyson did, he would've literally decapitated someone in the ring, and boxing would've been banned for sure.(So good thing he didn't).
I'll never forget the right hand he dropped Michael Moorer with. It looked like George just raised his arm and dropped it on Moorer. That, my friends, is freakish power.
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Thats also, a light heavyweights chin... What other world class heavies did Foreman KO in his comeback?Originally Posted by TitoFan
Big guys with long arms will never achieve the hand speed of the short-armed guys. That being said, George had amazing power, even though some of his punches looked like arm punches. Had George twisted his torso into his punches like Tyson did, he would've literally decapitated someone in the ring, and boxing would've been banned for sure.
I'll never forget the right hand he dropped Michael Moorer with. It looked like George just raised his arm and dropped it on Moorer. That, my friends, is freakish power.
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Foreman was old and that was not his best right hand. He had freakish natural power, he literally smashed Frazier to bits with raw power. Tyson had better technique which relied on speed and precision, Foreman just hit and people mostly fell.Thats also, a light heavyweights chin... What other world class heavies did Foreman KO in his comeback?Big guys with long arms will never achieve the hand speed of the short-armed guys. That being said, George had amazing power, even though some of his punches looked like arm punches. Had George twisted his torso into his punches like Tyson did, he would've literally decapitated someone in the ring, and boxing would've been banned for sure.
I'll never forget the right hand he dropped Michael Moorer with. It looked like George just raised his arm and dropped it on Moorer. That, my friends, is freakish power.
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It's hard to say because they both were vastly different punchers and athletes. Force is mass X acceleration, George had more mass but Tyson had more acceleration obviously.
Tyson's technique IMO was more built for a guy with his athletic ability (or a guy like Floyd Patterson who also had great speed and used the peek a boo with great success).
So would George hit harder with Tyson's technique, given his differing athletic attributes? I doubt it. George had a lot of smart boxing guys around him, I'm sure they tailored his punch style to fit his athletic attributes.
It's scary to image Foreman hitting harder than he did.
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Thats also, a light heavyweights chin... What other world class heavies did Foreman KO in his comeback?Big guys with long arms will never achieve the hand speed of the short-armed guys. That being said, George had amazing power, even though some of his punches looked like arm punches. Had George twisted his torso into his punches like Tyson did, he would've literally decapitated someone in the ring, and boxing would've been banned for sure.
I'll never forget the right hand he dropped Michael Moorer with. It looked like George just raised his arm and dropped it on Moorer. That, my friends, is freakish power.
Other than David Tua, who punched like a mule kick, Moorer was never KO'ed by any other heavyweight. So his chin couldn't have been all that bad. And like M said, this was an old Foreman, not to be confused with the earlier version. And yet he still managed a one-punch KO, something many other HW's were unable to do to Moorer.
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Moorer did have a weak chin and I hate him for losing to Foreman when he had the fight easily won. Moorer was wobbled by Alex Stewart, knocked down 200 times by Bert Cooper and Holyfield. Foreman knocked him out.
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