Thread: Who is the hardest hitting heavyweight of all time?

We have had some hard hitters over the years..Liston, Marciano, Dempsey, Tyson ect...but I have to admit I think a prime George Foreman may have been the hardest hitting SOB of them all...Slow but when he connected MAN!!!! It hurt just watching...A case can be made for Liston,,Johnson and a few others but You only get 5 choices.....

I'll say Foreman because he wrecked a lot of guys and I think he honestly hit hardest p4p it's without a doubt Earnie Shavers he was only 6'1 210-205 that's small....Foreman was 6'4 220 in his prime

id say foreman-then shavers -then marciano

marciano was the original but foreman was the hardest hitter--ask frazier and moore

What about Ike?

Big George could crack.. He had what I call the Midas Touch ! both hands ! very intelligent heavyweight., he better in his late 30's and 40 then as a youngster ! He would very his power during a match.. get you to like it and then pop that hammer back and let you know the storm is coming . he also could hide the str8 right behind that jab and let it go in succession ! ba- bang .. all at once ! Sent many to sandman land that way

a sleeper would be Bert Cooper he would throw a nice little choppy 6 inch punch on the inside that could just short out the system.

Toss up between Foreman and Shavers. If I had to pick one I would go with Shavers.

I voted BIG GEORGE.
Very close 2nd Shavers.

Out of those guys it has to be Mike... Shavers is the only who comes close to him when it comes to one punch ko's. Foreman could pummel a guy, but he never cleanly ko'ed a good opponent like Mike or Shavers. The reason why I say Mike over Shavers is that he is about 20 pounds bigger, alot faster, and he just the same type of leverage into his punches, but like I said Foreman was immensely strong, but not ko type puncher, and I don't think he was any stronger than Mike who weighed as much as him, but was 5 inches shorter.

I remember George KO aguy in the 1st and the crowd booing after my pal who was the ref came over to me . He said scrap, because he was talking to me, I dont know what they are booing for the sound of the connection frightened the life out of me did you notice nobody at ringside was booing. Funny inthe dressing room area after I was standing in the doorway he was trying to get thruogh very politely he asked if I could move my reply was. George Im on your side.

I wouldn't agree with Big George, he hit Chuvalho on the button for 3 minutes and couldn't drop him, Ali took his best shots and if you think of a lot of Foreman's KOs they were accumulation of punches rather than one big shot. He is definitely a huge puncher, but for 1 punch power I would go with Shavers.

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I thought when he came back he punched harder probably thought about it more could be Archie had something to do with that.

Originally Posted by BIG H

I wouldn't agree with Big George, he hit Chuvalho on the button for 3 minutes and couldn't drop him, Ali took his best shots and if you think of a lot of Foreman's KOs they were accumulation of punches rather than one big shot. He is definitely a huge puncher, but for 1 punch power I would go with Shavers.

i agree that uppercut he koed ellis with and that overhand right he hit larry holmes with was like shotgun going off for 1 punch ko power id go with shavers you know what daxxkahn i was going to do exact same thread today lol beat me to it but have cc for good thread anyway

Originally Posted by Tam Seddon

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Originally Posted by TheBESTP4P

Originally Posted by Tam Seddon

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