What a great fight! Not many can say they went 10 rounds with Foreman, Peralta had amazing instincts and a great style he did really well

Peralta was highly underrated.

This was the first real test for George Foreman. Gregorio Peralta was a stylish boxer and much underrated. I was surprised that he didn't win the light heavy weight crown from Willie Pastrano.

Old George will always be my hero, boxing or not, but Peralta was a classy guy and a classy and gentlemanly boxer.

It's interesting watching such a young, light, limber, athletic George Foreman. He didn't have the bulk or the intimidation thing going for him yet. And kudos to Gregorio Peralta--a tough, crafty, veteran fighting a very smart fight. It's too bad the older, smarter, patient, disciplined 40-something Foreman's brain couldn't have been imported into his younger body. That would've been a helluva fighter.

Foreman's inexperience shows a little more in the early part of his career then many other fighters at this stage probably because George didn't really have a amatuer career. Lack of experience is the reason that he lost to Ali. If I remember correctly George had a total of 17 amatuer fights which included his 1968 gold medal match. I believe that Sugar Ray Leonard had something like 150 amatuer fights by the time he won his gold medal. A lot of credit should go to Peralta for going the distance with Foreman, It took a tough and wise fighter to do that.

Ali studied this fight to learn that Foreman would tire in the later rounds. .

Adam, Thanks a lot for providing us with this absorbing fight-young enthusiastic Foreman vs canny and not to be underestimated Peralta!

Not even Ali dared to fight Foreman like this. My hat off.

Grande Peralta! Le diste una buena pelea y lo cortaste al big george. Q orgullo de q seas argentino! 🇦🇷

Goes to show you, even the hardest punchers in history couldnt KO everybody ....... TYSON, MORRISON, TUA, SHAVERS, RUDDOCK, BONECRUSHER & LISTON had to go the distance a few times as well

Peralta was impressive especially because he was almost exclusively a left handed puncher with nothing much going on with his right hand. It also does show the inexperience of Foreman because I don't feel he made much adjustments, instead he just kept at the pressure and over-powering game which worked out fine for Foreman here. In context, this was a great fight between a 21yr old and a crafty veteran.

La primera vez que veo esta pelea, me sorprendió Peralta, el aguante del público y el abucheo a Foreman. Lamentable el localismo de los jueces, pero eso ocurrió en todos lados y en toda la historia del boxeo, desde las peleas de club de barrio hasta las mas grandes arenas internacionales. Felicitaciones por el archivo!!!

Good work from Peralta, gave George all he could handle, would love to have seen them fight another 5 rounds.

Professor "Goyo" Peralta !!!

Really, really enjoyed watching this. It was interesting that Cosell in his commentary said half the press thought picking Peralta as an opponent was maybe overmatching Foreman for this stage of his career development, and they may have been right. Peralta came to win, he had tons of heart, skill and fight - incredible really for someone under 200lbs and taking some of Big George's best body shots with, what I'm assuming, were 8oz gloves. Could have gone either way. Great fight.

I had the fight scored 96-95 for George Foreman. With the 1st and 9th rounds being the rounds that won the fight for Foreman. Had Foreman lost either round he would've lost the entire fight.

¡Qué grande el Goyo...!!!! Uno de los pocos que pudo aguantarle en pie toda la pelea a Foreman, le peleó de igual a igual y estuvo a punto de tirarlo un par de veces.

Peralta was a damn good fighter

En 12.25 tras el terrible golpe de Peralta, Foreman buscaba las cuerdas y esperaba la campana

Gregorio Peralta, what a warrior, standing up against the Aggressive little bear George Foreman. Respect for both fighters 🤝

no sabia que un argentino le había dado duro a Foreman, es algo que no se dice demasiado

Wow I didn't know Peralta

Peralta's does much better than I expected in this bout, I think Forman forgot the lessons he learned in this bout by the time of the Rumble in the Jungle. This is another experienced fighter he had to go the distance with, Ali's experience is what took him down, and Peralta only used one hand, Ali used both and Ali had the fastest one-two on the planet by a heavyweight. Good fight in this bout all the way. 👍

This is the 1st fight Foreman was 15-0 (not the 2nd fight when he was 27-0)

I wonder just how many of Big George’s fights actually went the distance?

Que choreoooo!!! Esta pelea la gano Peralta....

un asalto más y foreman kodicen que Ali estuvo analizando esta pelea durante muchas horas para preparar la pelea de Kinsasa en en 74grande Goyito !!!!

Has anyone seen films anywhere of Foreman-Peralta two?

George had a really crisp jab, he should have made it a greater strategic part of his arsenal.

Me saco el sombrero por Peralta un caballero del boxeo antítesis del fanfarrón de Bonavena. Valentía y buena técnica ante un jovencísimo Foreman. Vendió cara su derrota ante ese portento físico. Foreman recibió sus buenos Golpes que le hicieron tambalear. Un tiempo después le daría una paliza a Frazier

Jesus... Peralta was tough... 26:33 is a left not many survive [if you pause it at 26:35, it's almost a Linda Blair moment]

I guess the last referee who scored it 9 to 1 was the only sober one judging that night? lol

This is a wonderful display of extreme body punching by George Foreman, as well as a badass fight. The way George stalked the opponent and picked him off with left jabs, scoring a punch at a time was brilliant; He couldn't miss a punch in the 1st round and those thudding right hooks to the body were very nicely done-- George put everything he had into ferocious body shots. Greg Peralta however, was sharpshooting with left hook counters throughout the fight and nailed Foreman square on the jaw at the end of the 4th round, which surprised me that George didn't even go down from it-- that was a huge cracking shot from a sneaky fighter with a lot of power. But Foreman stayed consistent and tore up the midsection with brutal combinations, landing clean effective punches that took everything out of Greg Peralta by the tenth round; This guy was a real body snatcher and what a terrific fight. I really enjoyed it.

I like how peralta held up his arm to touch gloves with big george at the end of every round, possibly in hopes to stay on georges good side but george never acknowledged it 😂

Goyo robbed

I remember this fight---was on the undercard of the Frazier-Ellis fight which was to unify the heavyweight crown. Although Foreman had trouble, people were saying he would beat Frazier in 2-3 yrs, and he did just that

Good fight

Did you hear 9-1 "Foreman" ? What Horse crap! The fix was in! The Garden stood to make too much money off foreman. NO WAY it should have been more than 5-4 Foreman at best.

Wow...a good fight and Foreman was so exhausted in round 10 he couldn't control his body. Surprising he didn't have his come to Jesus transformation after this fight as he did after Young in San Juan. Cosell missed or dismissed several big punches by Peralta in the last couple of rounds as Gregorio got braver when Foremen's punches started to lose steam. Shades of Zaire on full display.

AGUANTE PERALTA!!!

Great fight!. In my view, as an aside, back in that day, I was in my mid teens, and it didn't seem like a really big time event, unless Howard Cosell was giving the play by play, or in this case the blow by blow.

Peralta un maestro boxeador

I was 7 years old

i wonder would would win a fight if this version of george foreman fought 1964 cassius clay :D

Why do they have the Red & Yellow Shit at the bottom of the screen. I'm trying to watch a fight!

Its like a slow white mayweather vs diego corrales with a jab, peralta may have won this one though.

I bet Ali watched this fight over n over, especially round 9

I thought Peralta was amazing

Que excelente ese ultimo round. Que buena tecnica le dio su entrenador. Que lastima que por seguirle a Peron dejo todo.

I know this is a younger forman with only 16 fights under his belt, but this guy is not a big fella. Everybody says that forman beats smaller guys into oblivian because of the Frazier incedents. This just goes to show that every fighter is a law unto himself. As much as Im gonna get flack for saying this, I think this is a good case for saying Rocky Marciano gives young George trouble. I think it is much more competative than people think and I think it is not a streach to think Marciano could come out with a win or even a KO. Im not saying George doesnt do the same, even more so than not, but I think if this guy can make take George the distance, Marciano shows better.

perralta was tough..super tough to take that punishment

Gregorio peralta 100 . George foreman 97 . Champion . Gregorio Peralta

10 rounds with him both fights Its easy to see why Ali was confident given that Foreman hadnt gone more than 3 rounds since fighting Peralta 3 years prior to the Rumble

I think a few of the big names avoided peralta..

Para pelear con un grande como Foreman no lo hiso nada mal dió buena pelea grande goyo

Terrible zurdazo le metió Peralta en 12:25

21:03 途中から意地の張り合い、ヤケクソになってる。ペラルタというのもかなり強いんだな。フォアマンのパンチ喰らっても耐えてた。

Peralta made a mistake by not throwing more rights. Foreman was susceptible to right hand leads!

George got the KO in the rematch.

Habia que aguantarle 10 rounds a ese foreman, era una bestia con una potencia que intimidaba a cualquiera. Peralta no solo lo aguanto, sino que conecto algunos golpes terribles como en 12:25

Foreman should have been circling the other way

Creo que goyo tenia mejor quijada que frazier

Fix.

Peralta mükemmel dövüştü.

Peralta rather clearly won that fight -- if it had gone 12 rounds , Peralta would have knocked out the exhausted Foreman, who barely finished the 10 th !…but no way does boxing let a 35 year old veteran defeat the up and coming Foreman …

Foreman's elbow strikes cut open Pires but Peralta was wise to it which is why at the final bell it was Foreman who was effectively KOd. Foreman's return success shows how much boxing talent had declined by the time Holyfield, Klitschkos and Lewis came around. The best athletes had been recruited early into other sports like football, basketball and baseball.

Con 18 kilos menos que foreman peralta lo cago a tronoadas

Peralta won this fight

Greg won

I think foreman lost but i just skimmed it lol

98-93 Foreman

Grande goyo

De punta punta . Ganó peralta

Ganó peralta

Lunch meat

Another Fix. Pad those records for the big paydays. (See Ali ).

What fight was the ref watching? 9-1 Foreman???? Yes, Foreman won the fight but I think the 5-4-1 judge is a lot closer to reality than the referee.

I THINK A DRAW WOULD HAVE BEEN APPROPRIATE!

What a robbery. Jesus

PERALTA was a Decent B LEVEL fighter, but never beat a Great fighter, beat a long list of BUMS, & lost a few times to low level opponents, is why hes not considered a GREAT FIGHTER.

8-2 Foreman. Peralta, a guy with a lot of good wins and a real good career, fought like prime jimmy young but was smaller. To his credit,foreman popped that fence post jab out frequently and effectively enough to put rounds in the bank. Vs jimmy young George literally didn't do anything. Foreman's jab is five times harder than peralta's hardest shots...which are cuffing and pesky ....a pea shooter vs a cannon......the 5-4-1 card is ridiculous...but new york fight crowds love the under dog.

Perolta was Robbed plain and simple

This man will not go down