{"id":402459,"date":"2026-02-01T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402459\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:21:07","slug":"shannon-briggs-says-one-heavyweights-punch-felt-like-being-hit-by-a-car-nobody-hit-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402459\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Briggs says one heavyweight&#8217;s punch &#8216;felt like being hit by a car&#8217;: &#8220;Nobody hit harder&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Briggs faced a selection of ferocious punchers throughout his 67-fight career, including Lennox Lewis, George Foremen and Vitali Klitschko, but one of them punched so hard that it felt like getting hit by a car.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Cannon\u2019 faced a prime Lewis in 1998, back when he suffered three knockdowns en route to a fifth-round stoppage defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis had entered their fight as an almighty favourite and the WBC world heavyweight champion, using Briggs as a springboard to collide with Evander Holyfield the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, Briggs had claimed a <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/george-foreman-vs-shannons-briggs-an-unhappy-ending\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">majority decision victory over Foreman<\/a>, who outlanded the former two-time world champion but ultimately announced his retirement shortly after their non-title fight.<\/p>\n<p>But despite being at the end of his decorated career, \u2018Big George\u2019 nonetheless added plenty of credibility to one of the sport\u2019s oldest adages: that power is the last thing to leave a fighter.<\/p>\n<p>Briggs also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/vitali-klitschko-shannon-briggs-post-fight-report-card\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lost to the heavy-hitting Klitschko<\/a>, via a wide unanimous decision, in 2010, but seemingly remains convinced that Foreman was the hardest puncher he ever encountered.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@firstroundtv\/video\/7600085145965628694?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-93TPcC5NQRC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">First Round TV<\/a>, the Brooklyn man offered a vivid description of what it felt like to be hit by the devastating fists of Foreman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody hit like George Foreman. George Foreman hit hard, champ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got hit by a car one time\u2026 That\u2019s how it felt when I fought George Foreman. He hit me one time and knocked me out, but he [didn\u2019t] know it, and he hit me with another shot and it woke me up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foreman became the oldest world heavyweight champion of all time, at 45 years old, by knocking out Michael Moorer with a seemingly effortless shot in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, the tremendous puncher had established his formidable reputation by stopping the likes of Joe Frazier and Ken Norton in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shannon Briggs faced a selection of ferocious punchers throughout his 67-fight career, including Lennox Lewis, George Foremen and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-402459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}