Hardest Puncher Today and Historically

[Dark Lord Al]

Pound for pound = Julian Jackson.

[Hulk]

P4P today its Randall Bailey.

[THE THIRD MAN]

Wladimir Klitschko is today's heaviest hitter... Dr Steelhammer is at 80.65%.

Historically you have Rocky Marciano, Sonny Liston, George Foreman, Ernie Shavers, Mike Tyson representing the HW division of super hitters then you have the little guys like Carlos Zarate with 90% KO wins, Wilfredo Gomez 87.5%, Khoasai Galaxy 86% , then there is Aaron Pryor at 87.5% and heavy hitters like Tommy Hearns 71%, Felix Trinidad 77%, Julian Jackson 80%.

I think any fighter who has a KO winning percentage greater than 70% is well up there in the heavy hitter department.

[TysonBomb]

KO% can be misleading though

Vitali has a higher KO% but doesn't hit as hard as Wlad

[IamInuit]

Today excluding the hevs I’d have to go with Chocolatito. Opposite end of the spectrum.

All time that’s a tough one.

For me it’s between Jimmy Wilde and Sam Langford and as Al pointed out Jackson was also a freak. The three of them are further proof that punchers are born and not made. Langford was a blown up middleweight and has more ko’s then Tyson and Foreman combined. Wildes record is really w/o equal and that does not include the hundreds of tent fights he had knocking out guys three or 4 times his size wearing 4 oz gloves.

[brocktonblockbust]

Vitali doesn nothit so hard---no harder by any means than say Razor Ruddock or somebody like that. KO% is def misleading--- a guy who has vicious combination punching can KO plenty of people but not hit so hard PER PUNCH.

PER PUNCH you'd HAVE to say Rocky Marciano, George Foreman, Earnie Shavers Im talking about in BOTH HANDS. Those guys could kill you with either hand. Dempsey hit pretty damned hard as well. Now that you mention it---Razor Ruddock hit pretty damned hard if you ask me.

[bzkfn]

P4P now I'd say it's Mattheysse. That guy has some sledgehammers in his gloves.

Historically...I dunno. Valero would be up there because of his 100% KO record but we never got to find out if he could do it at the very highest level.

[Peter Som]

Today excluding the hevs I’d have to go with Chocolatito. Opposite end of the spectrum.

All time that’s a tough one.

For me it’s between Jimmy Wilde and Sam Langford and as Al pointed out Jackson was also a freak. The three of them are further proof that punchers are born and not made. Langford was a blown up middleweight and has more ko’s then Tyson and Foreman combined. Wildes record is really w/o equal and that does not include the hundreds of tent fights he had knocking out guys three or 4 times his size wearing 4 oz gloves.

I would have to agree with you on Chocolatito. That KO against Soto cannot be described as anything else but a thing of beauty.

Historically, well, that's hard for me because you have to consider different boxers, their era and the contexts of their fights. I'm gonna have to go with obvious and right in front of us, Iron Mike Tyson. I've been studying the boxing game for a while, new and old, not an expert by any stretch, but I know enough to make educated and calculated statements.

I'm going to have to go with Tyson historically and for all times.

[TysonBomb]

Iron Mike is top 5 in power all time, in my opinion.

But I think he is the most devastating puncher of all time ... he could literally KO you with any punch in his repertoire ... and he had no problem throwing any kind of punch from any kind of angle ... and the combos he would throw were ungodly and had never existed before in the heavyweight division.

Combine that with the natural speed and power as well as the technique he would employ and you have the most devastating puncher of all time.

The uppercut he throws here MAY be the most powerful punch I've ever seen



Here it is at 11 minutes and 51 seconds



Same fight against Ribalta he rips a lightning fast combo at 33m and 30s



Possibly the best I've ever seen from a heavyweight



He was destroying people that super punchers like Foreman went 12 full rounds with ... and scraped by with a SD victory. Foreman beat Lou Savarese in a 12 round SD yet Tyson annihilated him with a single punch, through his guard: