What's so great about George Foreman?

[Scopedog]

Foreman could definitely look crude but as is often the case there was an art to it. If he really was some talentless hulk who could only punch hard he never would have made it the way he did not once but twice, decades apart as has already been pointed out. His record's pretty excellent overall. Out of his five losses only the loss to Jimmy Young really stands out as being anything really damaging to his image. Losses to Tommy Morrison and Shannon Briggs aren't really worth marking him down because he was at an advanced age for a boxer at that point and both of those were very solid competitors at the time. And then his only other losses were to Holyfield at the peak of his powers and to Ali. And then you look at his W column and even though it's filled up with plenty of fairly unremarkable fighters there are also plenty of major scalps in there too. Joe Frazier (twice), Ken Norton, Ron Lyle, Dwight Muhammad Qawi, Gerry Cooney, Michael Moorer. Out of the current crop of heavyweights, even amongst the top guys you won't find many with as many good wins as that.

[Boxing fan1981]

Nothing, but Americans think old timers that were mostly just domestic fighters (boxing wasn’t as international as it is now) are the greatest thing.

He was a slow footed heavy handed puncher. Overrated because Ali beat him. That’s the only reason.

He’s top 20 ATG because of his demographic and because he fought back in the day when the “real killers” ruled boxing.

[Dodger07]

Atg power and jab.

[Ascended]

Get in the ring with him, and see if you can land on him, or take his punch, then get back to us.

Mutiple people did easy and he is old now anybody could dumb comment

[Willow The Wisp]

If what you're seeing when you watch boxing doesn’t match up with the results, chances are you're simply not good at reading what you're looking at. Consider this the voice from ouside the echo chamber. Forman is a GREAT fighter.

[djtmal]

Mutiple people did easy and he is old now anybody could dumb comment

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[Ascended]

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[Get em up]

A lot of what you said here is not true. There are two Foremans, and he fought differently when he returned to the ring to compensate for his older age.

He is not sloppy. His hands were low to raise them up and deflect shots or to protect his body from punches. And he has very good defensive skills.

Sere here:

Every punch he throws hurts. He can hit you anywhere, and you'll feel it in your soul.

Also look at his lean backs and punch techniques:

You don't know what you're are talking about man.

Killer links to show what Big George was great at. Another thing not mentioned is styles make fights and his style was incredibly deceptive. His muscle bound body and brute style when he was young played a roll in his deception. He used his natural strengths to his advantage to hit people. As you mentioned keeping his hands low to push incoming punches up and then making his opponents pay was a serious strength in his favor because of his punching power. When he hit somebody it hurt them and that was just 1 part of his overall ability.

[Willow The Wisp]

Calling Foreman a two time world champion is a joke, as so was his fight (if you can call it that) with Moorer. After losing every round he got lucky.........and that is all it was. He didn't earn that title shot (look at his record) it was a gift.
How you can't call it a joke is beyond boxing. (whatever that means)

History doesn't care what you call it.

[Willow The Wisp]

Killer links to show what Big George was great at. Another thing not mentioned is styles make fights and his style was incredibly deceptive. His muscle bound body and brute style when he was young played a roll in his deception. He used his natural strengths to his advantage to hit people. As you mentioned keeping his hands low to push incoming punches up and then making his opponents pay was a serious strength in his favor because of his punching power. When he hit somebody it hurt them and that was just 1 part of his overall ability.

Truth bomb. Foreman mastered timing. The punch, for example, that allowed him to reclaim the one and only Heavyweight Championship of the world, didn't travel at a fast speed, didn't travel at a slow speed; it traveled at the right speed, and guess who's face was right there lined up to meet it when it got there? The rest.....impervious tp anyone's feeling or opinions, is history. These are not complicated concepts. The ground near George Foreman's feet is littered with "better boxers". Lol.