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George Foreman
Evander Holyfield
Ross Puritty
Nic Valuev
Wladimir Klitschko
Vitali Klitschko
LEnnox Lewis
Samuel Peter
Ray Mercer
Shannon Briggs
Anthony Joshua

And on and on.

PRoblem is, is that most of these guys are on steroids.

I think special credit has to be given to George Foreman, as being possibly the physically strongest boxer in the pre-steroid era and in his 90's career I don't think he used them either. His 90's heavy strength training regime including weights, wood chopping and pulling jeeps on a tether was legendary.

Possibly the best image of his strength was in I think the first round of Foreman vs Morrison, where the steroid pumped, savage HW banger Tommy Morrison tried wrestling with George and with astonishing strength, big George launched the young roid head into the corner like a child.

That was strength!
Steroids have been used for muscle growth since the 1930s. We have no idea who was on steroids. And I find it highly questionable that the heavyweight division exploded to what many consider its all time greatest right when steroids exploded in football yet people don't question boxing of the time.

Suddenly so many guys have super human strength to the point that 40 years later we talk about gatekeepers. Anyone who doesn't consider the possibility they were all on roids has their headin the sand.