George Foreman Boxing News

By Eric Thomas: Big George Foreman (76-5, 68 KO’s) gave WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) a big compliment after his win over Tomasz Adamek (44-2, 28 KO’s) last weekend, saying on his twitter “The champ Klitschko is as good as any other of the past champs. Better than me.” Now that is [...]

By Chris Williams: In October 1974, Muhammad Ali defeated a young 25-year-old George Foreman by an 8th round TKO. It was a fight where Ali, then 32, played rope-a-dope by laying against the ropes and letting the powerful Foreman expend energy beating on his body, gloves and head. In the end, Foreman tired out and [...]

By Eric Thomas: Boxing great big George Foreman (76-5, 68 KO’s) has his doubts about IBF/WBA/.WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) leaving much of a legacy when he retires from the sport someday because of the way that Wladimir fights so defensively.

“Big” George Foreman Discusses The Possibility Of Bernard Hopkins Breaking His Record As The Oldest Fighter In Boxing History To Win A Significant World Title “You must get a knockout. This fight and the record will not be broken on a unanimous decision. There must be a knockout.

By Dan Ambrose: 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins (51-5-2, 32 KO’s) is hoping to go down in the record books with a win over World Boxing Council (WBC) light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (26-1-1, 16 KO’s) on May 21st at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. Hopkins, if he wins, will be the oldest fighter to ever [...]

By Tom Graves: Also known as ‘Big George’ and ‘The Heywood Giant’, the 6ft 3inch texan is a former two-time World Heavyweight Champion and Olympic gold medalist. Foreman also owns the reputation as being one of the hardest punchers in boxing history. Some of his most notable bouts were his thrilling knockout victory against Joe [...]

by Rich Aspillaga: A lot of boxing analysts and fans have been using these terms “damaged goods” and “shot” fighters obviously referring to top tier fighters who were beaten in their last or few previous fights.

By Tommaso Nappo: The list was compiled based on the criteria of ability to take a punch, and quality of opposition. It does not I repeat does not take into account the individual fighters skill level or accomplishments. Some of those that earned an honorable mention were current fighters – David Tua, Vitali Klitchko, Oliver [...]

By Jim Amato: Superfights. It is a very over used term these days. Some of the PPV “superfights” of today would have been nice Saturday afternoon feature bouts on ABC’s Wide World Of Sports in my day. There were several bouts from the late 1960s to the early 1980s I wish would have been made. [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Okay, I saw the fight last night between Tomasz Adamek and Michael Grant, and I thought Adamek did a pretty good job under the circumstances. He really didn’t look that bad other than a few hard punches he took in the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th. Adamek handled the situation pretty well [...]

By Chris Williams: For those who remember the great Muhammad Ali’s shocking 8th round stoppage of the then unbeaten George Foreman on October 30th in 1974, they saw a great fight from Ali in which he used a now famous rope a dope, along with a lot of pawing and clinching to tire out and [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: With David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) looking as if he’s possibly on the verge of taking on IBF/WBC heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko at some point in 2009, I wondered what Haye might have done if he had fought one of the heavyweight divisions’ greatest knockout threats, George Foreman, in the prime of [...]

By William Mackay: While watching former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield struggle last Saturday night in a losing effort to WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev, I couldn’t help but compare the 46-year-old Holyfield to the 45year-old George Foreman, who on November 5th, 1994, he stopped IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Michael Moorer to recapture the heavyweight title 20 [...]

By Jason Kim: I’ve always been a big fan of boxing and especially the heavyweight division. There’s nothing better than to sit down on occasion and watch a good heavyweight bout on HBO or Showtime on the rare occasions that they have a decent fight scheduled. However, it seems that less and less often there’s [...]

I’ve always wondered how a young George Foreman would have done in this a day and age against the mostly Eastern European fighters. For the sake of this discussion, I’m pitting a prime 24 year-old George Foreman against the current heavyweight champions Wladimir Klitschko, Sultan Ibragimov, Ruslan Chagaev, Samuel Peter and Oleg Maskaev. At 24, [...]