If george forman punched with Mike Tysons punching technique would he hit harder

[Master]

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.

Thats also, a light heavyweights chin... What other world class heavies did Foreman KO in his comeback?

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.

[Beanflicker]

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.

[zhubin]

I think they possessed different types of power...and the way they where built contributed to that. I think on pure strength...George was the stronger guy. He had heavier hands and clubbed his punches. He was just such a big guy...massive arms and shoulders. Tyson's power was as much a result of his incredible speed...the amount of torque he created on his punches was amazing. But Tyson was perfectly built for that...shorter guy with a strong, compact body. It would be terrifying to be in the ring with either of them!