and to think Ali played rope a dope with this man ..that's crazy

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

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.

Foreman's punches move at the speed of a planet slowly crashing into another planet and it's equally destructive.

He hit that bag like it owe him rent 😂

Bought 2 George foreman grills after watching this

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.

For those of you who have never hit a heavy bag let me tell you that’s some crazy power

Foreman: Okay, we're done with punching training. What's next? Footwork? Defense? Coach: Punching.

George is like an old truck. Slow as hell but if he hits you your dead.-joe Frazier

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.

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

his punches look like car crashes

Only guy in history to get CTE from holding a heavy bag.

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.

My phone kept jumping out of my hands every time he hit the heavy bag

"Getting hit by George Foreman is like getting hit on the head with telephone poles all day." - Muhammad Ali

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.

Big George was so strong, even the fights he lost, the winner still suffered damage , let that sink in

I love how he's crushing the bag so hard that there's a huge dent in it.

Internal bleeding, each shot, liver, spleen. Damn son.

George's punches = brain damage

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

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!

Foreman didn't have to hit the point of the chin. He knocked people out with blunt force trauma.

You're covid19 free after taking one of his shots

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.

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.

Imagine him accidentally hitting the bag holder in the fingers

Ali took them shots,shows you how tough he was damn!!!!!

George always looked intimidating and menacing. Underneath all that, we found he was just a cuddly teddy bear with a lovely smile!

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.

look how he casually deforms the heavy bag lmao

ive never seen a heavy bag have quit in their eyes before

probably the most genetically blessed heavyweight I've ever seen. Huge bones, huge muscles, ridiculously strong.

My phone flew out of my hand when he hit the bag 😂

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.

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 😮🥊💯👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

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!

He became the True Heavyweight with the George Foreman Grill 💪

He hits way harder than Wilder

This was recommended to me alongside a nuclear explosion compilation. Good thinking there YT algorithms.

MMA fans these days talk about Francis Ngannou's punching power, but noone hit harder than Earnie Shavers and George Foreman

My god. He's not even trying and he already hits hard. I'm only 3 seconds in.

From grilling the heavy bag in his youth to grilling my chicken now, what a legend.

Foreman hitting the heavy bag is one of the most incredible things to see in all of sports

This is one of the most impressive videos I've ever seen. The heavy bags were flattened like pillows by those punches. George is a legend.

The man was not only strong with his hands. He could also take alota blows to the head. Like when he fought Evander. A legend in my books

George's punches = here comes the pain

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

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.

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.

This the same person who sold me that grill? THATS TUFF

That is a very heavy punch George Foreman had there,no one in their right mind would want to take one of those sledge hammer punches.

And he's hitting the bottom when it's most dense at, and leaving a dent in it 💥

That man is all raw power. A true heavyweight champion, indeed!

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!

God : George, how much power ? George : yes.

George Foreman Punch was like a Mule Kick

I feel so bad for the guy that has to hold the bag for George😂

When that dude hit you, you stayed hit.

Back then I remember reading a quote from one of George's sparring partners who quit because he was afraid of getting killed by Foreman.

Here I am in awe of Big George, then I here Ali bragging at the end and I started to smile. Golden era of boxing.

That poor heavy bag was saying please stop I’ve had enough 😂

George Foreman's almost 70 years old today and he STILL would be terrifying to get into the ring with.

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.

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.

My wife dropped and broke our George Foreman grill last week. I was like Nooooooooooo!

If anyone hasn’t hit the big bag before try it and you’ll understand just how hard big George was making it dance. Wow !!!

0:30 Exact punches that knocked Ron Lyle out

The fact Foremen left literal dents in a bunching bag is enough to make you wonder what your organs would look like...

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.

imagine if he hit you square in the stomach with one of those shots :o

"Is that all you got, George?"

When you see Foreman's power here, you know Ali was and is The Greatest.

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.

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.

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.

that sound..like bombs landing. no snap, no nothing, just heavy heavy heaviness

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.

Ali just tanked these shots to the stomach, no wonder he pissed blood.

I’m still thinking what would a fight between George foreman and Earnie shavers look like. One of my favorite fantasy match ups

The trainer literally can get a concussion lol 😂

That poor dude holding the bag I can imagine him saying next people around him, no thanks we good🤣

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

of all the heavybag vids i've watched i have never seen a boxer literally carve a hole in a solid heavybag, dahfuq!!!

Damn he had unbelievable power and Ali took these shots on purpose Wow

Imagine getting hit in the face by accident while holding that heavy bag 😂

Still Wilder thinks he is the heaviest puncher ever 😂

00:03 if you look at the trainer closely... hes getting instant brain damage just by holding the bag.

Foreman said he's regretfull for things he did outside of the ring. Imagine being on the wrong side of that

The man with the most powerful jab in history....I've never seen a boxer make the punching bag tilt inwards like George foreman....

This is a testament to the greatness of Ali

Don't let this district you from the fact George was actually a very good boxer not just a big puncher

Powerful man! Big George

I have always been a fan of Big George as person and as boxer 🙂🙃🙂 . The guy is impressive whatever way you look at him . Thanks for the video!

I think foreman could've been an NFL linebacker if he wanted to lmao dude was a tank

Look at George’s jab at the end. Quality

Ali took his punches like the Heavy bag for all rounds and Won with a KO. Amazing.