Foreman was an arm puncher ?

[hollister]

Well, whether you agree that he was an arm puncher or not, no one can deny that he definitely compromised his power somewhat with his wide punches. He hurt or KO'd opponents sometimes with only glancing punches. If he'd been more precise with his punches, and had the benefit of optimum leverage through proper punching technique, there's no doubt in my mind that he would have killed someone.

[jabsRstiff]

Foreman threw arm punches....not all the time, but he threw a good amount of them.
But, he's the heaviest-fisted human being (though Shavers was a bigger puncher) to walk this earth, & he could hurt a guy just by putting his hands on them.
When he did get leverage, he was frightening (last left uppercut versus Cooney).

[tommyhearns804]

Again Ali fought both Shavers and Foreman said Foreman punched alot harder.And since Ali fought them both he should know a little more about this than you and I do.Shavers punches seem to be more explosive though.Foreman looked like he just graze guys heads sometimes and they went down.

[catskills23]

Ali never said that foreman hit harder than shavers . Ali said this , ali said that . Some other moron on another site said that ali said liston hit harder than shavers and foreman . The whole lot of ye are full of ****e .

[con33]

Foreman threw arm punches....not all the time, but he threw a good amount of them.
But, he's the heaviest-fisted human being (though Shavers was a bigger puncher) to walk this earth, & he could hurt a guy just by putting his hands on them.
When he did get leverage, he was frightening (last left uppercut versus Cooney).

...I think your right and I think Foreman is a freak of nature when it comes to heavy hands.

[tommyhearns804]

Catskill read "The life and time of Ali" Ali said Foreman was the hardest puncher he ever faced and was the strongest.He said Frazier was the toughest and Liston was the scariest.Holyfield says Foreman was the hardest puncher he ever faced and he faced Lewis Tyson and Bowe.Foreman is the hardest puncher so get over it.

[beez721]

Son, let me explain.

fighters like foreman, even a young foreman, with advanced fighting experience(he fought grown men from age 14-15) KNOW, REALIZE, AND UNDERSTAND that if you put everything into every punch you are only setting yourself up to get punked. That's right just take a look at cottos fight with corely, cotto did what you are talking about trying to 'be the pride of puertorico' or whatever the **** and ended up punking himself.

the thing is, in boxing, unless you're a supernatural god like bernard hopkins, you are gonna get hit. if you put everything into every punch, theres a good chance youll get hit when you're transferring that weight. this is bad, because it takes the leg strength you used to generate the punch you are about to throw, and places it in your opponents favor, by directly applying all power to HIS GLOVE to YOUR SKULL. not a good xfer.

foreman was the master at arm punching. open gloved style, he'd catch your punch THEN throw the big weight xfer punch, until he saw you **** up though so he could CAPITALIZE on that, he would just plod open gloved style with arm punches, THEN let loose the catapult when the time is right

tysons people knew better than to throw him in there with that ****ing legendary animal foreman was.

"He would just come in, grunt, throw punches, go home."
-bert sugar, commenting on foreman

Sorry but foreman was not just an arm puncher in his early career. he did turn his weight into his punches. even when he got whupped by ali,,,he was clearly leaning over and turning into those body shots when ali was against the ropes. now the older goerge was mostly an arm puncher. he pretty much slapped with a lot of his punches,,,,but dang,,,,even his b*%$^h slaps were hard

[EXIGE]

And what the **** is an arm puncher?

I didnt realise there where punchers who punched without their arms.

Only messin but what is an arm puncher in opposition to?

[BAREKNUCKLES]

I dont believe foreman was an arm puncher no puncher who becomes heavyweight champ is an arm puncher .

You can become heavyweight champion when you have the body of an Olympic powerlifter with the handspeed of Larry Holmes.

George Foreman didn't move around the ring a whole lot, and he didn't have Ali like speed, but he had fast hands, and when you couple that with the un-natural power he had, people got hurt.

I watched all of George's comeback fights and it definitely was a joy to watch a man that strong and that old just knock the crap out of young and tough fighters.

He fought Adelson Rodriguez, and hit him so hard, the man's eyes were crossed for at least 5 minutes.

He KO'd Gerry Cooney so hard that I didn't think he was going to survive the brutality of it.

The man was an arm puncher, but what a set of arms he had. He looked more like a pro wrestler in the weigh in. I always thought that they also listed his height and weight a little low. It sure looked like a 300 lb gorilla in there rather than a 250 lb man.

I always felt that Mike Tyson would have been just like Bert Cooper had he fought George. Bert Cooper quit early in the fight with George, and do you know what his excuse for quitting was?

"He's a big man" was what Bert Cooper told an interviewer directly after a fight.

How many times have you every in your life watched a legitimate heavyweight contender climb out of the ring and refuse to fight a guy because he hit too hard?

Big George, he could be beaten, but you had better have a concrete chin and a big set of balls to climb in the ring with him!

[hollister]

And what the **** is an arm puncher?

I didnt realise there where punchers who punched without their arms.

Only messin but what is an arm puncher in opposition to?

Arm punchers don't push off with their back foot, they don't pivot and twist their bodies to get extra momentum into their punches. Foreman did those things to an extent, but he always slapped rather than throw punches in a way so that his elbow would be actually following the same route as his wrist and his fist, the way Tyson did. Ali punched with his arms alot, it allowed him to pile up points while retaining his handspeed and allowing him easier escape, as he was almost never fully committed to any of his punches.