By Scott Gilfoid: George Foreman III (1-0, 1 KOs) got off to a good start with his pro career, taking out a horribly mismatched Clyde Weaver (0-2) in the 1st round last night at the Coushatta Casino Resort, in Kinder, Louisiana. Foreman III, 26, may be the son of the great former two-time boxing champion George Foreman, but he looked positively awful last night.

From what I saw, Foreman III has little of his father’s incredible power, jab or overall technique. And even worse, Foreman III looked even slower than Big George in the 2nd part of Foreman’s career. The Louisiana crowd seemed to hate the fight as much as I did and spent almost every second of it booing loudly.

As far as the action goes, Foreman III rushed across the ring at the start of the fight and reminded me a lot of how Foreman came out for his first fight with Joe Frazier in 1973. Unfortunately, that’s pretty much where the similarities ended, because immediately I could see that Foreman III had none of his famous father’s power and just looked painfully slow as he threw wild, amateurish punches without much form.

It looked a lot like one of the tough man contests from the early 90s with two unskilled fighters just throwing haymakers at each other nonstop. Foreman, 6’5″, being the much bigger guy compared to the shorter, pudgy looking Weaver, was able to connect with his shots at a much greater frequency.

Basically, Foreman just overwhelmed Weaver with punches, landing a lot of uppercuts with both hands and hooks to the head. Foreman III threw very few jabs and seemed more intent on the uppercuts and hooks. About a minute into the round, Foreman III hurt Weaver with a right uppercut followed by a left to the head that caused Weaver to cover up and stagger slightly.

Foreman III then added a weak looking left-right combination that put Weaver down on the canvas. The punches looked like arm shots and were thrown incredibly slow. This wasn’t like his father, who would throw slow shots but loaded with power.

No, these were just slow arm shots, but Weaver being such a poor opponent, went down anyway. Weaver then got up and the crowd booed even louder, as I guess they were as unhappy as I was with the poor display of boxing skills on both Foreman III and Weaver’s part.

At any rate, as soon as the action resumed, Foreman III bum rushed Weaver and hit him with a series of left-right combinations to knock Weaver down on one knee on the canvas. The referee then counted him Weaver out, who looked like he had no intention on getting up. Then final punches were as wild as the other punches that Foreman III threw in the fight, and looked weak and as slow as any fighter I’ve ever seen before. The crowd, naturally, hated the action and continued to boo loudly. I can’t blame them. I felt like screaming because of the horrible display of fighting.

After seeing Foreman III fight, I’m going to go out on the limb and make a prediction that he’ll never be a champion. More than that, I don’t see him ever being a top 15 contender either. He just is lacking in too many areas, starting with power and then speed. He stands straight up like a European fighter, which might have a little bit to do with him not showing any power.

However, his father, big George Foreman, was an incredible puncher whether he was standing straight up or when he had his feet spread apart and was getting every ounce of energy into his shots. Foreman III looked like a badly watered down version of his father. He does look a lot like him in his fighting style, but again without the power or the speed that Foreman once had. Foreman was never a fast puncher, but his son looks much slower than him and more of an arm puncher.