Mike Tyson Reveals the One Heavyweight Who Was Even More Powerful Than Him

Still to this day, Mike Tyson is considered by many to be the most powerful and terrifying heavyweight fighter in the history of professional boxing.

Ever since he entered the sport of boxing back in the 1980s as a brash teenager, not many fighters have come even remotely close to being considered more powerful than Tyson. When Tyson was actively fighting, and even just years before he started fighting, the heavyweight division was arguably in its healthiest state, and there were so many superstars actively fighting all at once.

Some of these superstar names who were fighting were the likes of Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield and Joe Frazier, and once, during an interview, Tyson snubbed these iconic heavyweights and instead named a different heavyweight superstar as the most powerful heavyweight ever — even more powerful than himself.

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Mike Tyson Names George Foreman The Most Powerful Heavyweight Ever

‘Big George’ finished 68 of his 76 wins via KO

Although Mike Tyson is often considered by many boxing fans, fighters and analysts to be the most powerful heavyweight boxer ever, Tyson himself once snubbed those suggestions and instead named his fellow heavyweight icon George Foreman as the most powerful heavyweight ever.

In old, but recently resurfaced YouTube footage, Tyson was questioned about training techniques he and some fellow former world champions used to adopt, and when talking about one specifically which involved just basic bag hitting, the interviewer mentioned that ‘Big George’ used to break heavy bags when hitting them, which led to Tyson heavily praising his power.

“Yeah, heavy puncher. I can’t match somebody’s power who’s that big with that much mass, you know, the only thing that allowed me to be exciting was because I’d do it faster than the other guys.”

George Foreman and Mike Tyson’s professional boxing records
	George Foreman	Mike Tyson
Fights	81	59
Wins	76	50
Losses	5	7
No Contests	0	2

As Tyson said, he couldn’t really come close to Foreman’s power, as he simply had too much size on him and had so much mass. Although Foreman, like Tyson, was also a heavyweight who carried quite a significant amount of speed for a man of his size, his power was out of this world, and it should come as no shock that he ended up finishing a staggering 68 of his 76 professional boxing wins via KO.

Although Foreman was a big guy, a lot of his power simply came from his natural strength, and his power often shocked a lot of his opponents, as on the eye, he didn’t look like the most intimidating or athletic guy, but once you locked him inside the squared circle, he was a monster.