My vote is david tua's first real connected hook on Michael Moorer. that punch was just a beast.

2nd runner up- Herol Graham getting KO'd by julian jackson.(see sig)

the only really ones that are worthy of posting are when both fighters collide, like Herol in my sig is coming up with his leg strength as he gets punched, multiplying the damage

Jackson-Norris
Hearns-Duran

I didn't see any particulary devastating punches landed by Tua on Moorer. Some heavy ones....landed on Moorer's fragile noggin, but nothing memorable.
I saw some sick bombs in Tua-RUIZ, however.

oh hell yeah, I forgot about norris..his fight against Meldrick yielded some large shots as well

good picks, my 3nd runner up was hearns duran

Definitely has to be the last shot Tua landed on Ruiz as he was going down, and the left hook that started all of Ruiz' troubles didn't help him much, either.

I think in the Williams-Tyson bout there were some shots landed in round one that made it a contender. Just didn't seem that way because Williams can take a shot really well.

also in Hagler-hearns hearns landed this right hook that jolted marvins head to the left about a foot, it looked brutal

Definitely has to be the last shot Tua landed on Ruiz as he was going down, and the left hook that started all of Ruiz' troubles didn't help him much, either.

you never cease to make me smile, asian. yes, tua was one tough bastard. Really. not too many people know about the Samoan(SP?) culture, back before tua came out hard in the heavyweight division I heard those Samoans were hardasses, that they viewed fighting as like baseball or something (some of them at least)

and I remember tua saying that his dad made him fight his neighbors (men) barefisted around age 10. crazy stuff. could be a lie, though, of course ^^


Edited: It seems that every fight Tua wins early, he has to hit the guy like five times on the way down. Ruiz, moorer, heh

you never cease to make me smile, asian. yes, tua was one tough bastard. Really. not too many people know about the Samoan(SP?) culture, back before tua came out hard in the heavyweight division I heard those Samoans were hardasses, that they viewed fighting as like baseball or something (some of them at least)

I used to live in San Francisco, nothing but Somoans. Tua is a beast.

Tua's a disappointment, is what he is.

Lewis-Rahman II

lewis rahman 1

I used to live in San Francisco, nothing but Somoans. Tua is a beast.

I have never been around samoans but I remember some guy doing community service with me (this was long ago, i was like 17 and got a ticket for drinking a beer in public) he was like (this guy isnt a pushover btw) "Man I went to Hawaii and there was nothin but Samoans, we went out and flirted with the wrong girls and them samoan men ****ed us up. I was like "man you shoulda brought some friends, I would have brought some buddies" and he was like "Man they wouldve kicked your asses, they kicked our asses, you dont know about those samoans." so I was like 'whoa'

just a question what the hell was he talking about ;-) it was as if every single samoan male he came into contact with was a hardened fighter or strongman 'lifter' type, no samoans in suits carrying briefcases, they are all primal warriors from what he explained. haha that sounded ridiculous.

just a question what the hell was he talking about ;-) it was as if every single samoan male he came into contact with was a hardened fighter or strongman 'lifter' type, no samoans in suits carrying briefcases, they are all primal warriors from what he explained. haha that sounded ridiculous.
Let me tell you, you don't want to **** with a somoan. They are all big mutha****as, it's just in their genes. They all seem to have short tempers for some reason. Their legs and shoulders are just naturally huge. Now contrast them with puny filipinos in San Francisco and you'll understand why I now live in Jersey City.

man i got a couple of somoan friends and they have no tmeper at all the most relaxed people ive seen and arent somoans suppose to be like tall well most of em that is

Lewis-Rahman II

I was wondering how long I'd have to read before I saw this. I guess many of you haven't seen this fight, but Lewis landed what was reportedly called the hardest punch ever thrown. I believe it too. It is sick.

hmm was lewis's punch really that much harder then oleg's punch landed on rahman? anyone got a clip?

I was wondering how long I'd have to read before I saw this. I guess many of you haven't seen this fight, but Lewis landed what was reportedly called the hardest punch ever thrown. I believe it too. It is sick.

damn and that's one of the fights I missed, too. Saw the first one, and I knew Lennox was going to get revenge on that guy for doing what he did ;-)

Let me tell you, you don't want to **** with a somoan. They are all big mutha****as, it's just in their genes. They all seem to have short tempers for some reason. Their legs and shoulders are just naturally huge. Now contrast them with puny filipinos in San Francisco and you'll understand why I now live in Jersey City.

you sound just like the guy I did community service with. It must be true then. primal tribal people, i bet their homeland is on a mountain or something, that would explain their large legs and shoulders

you sound just like the guy I did community service with. It must be true then. primal tribal people, i bet their homeland is on a mountain or something, that would explain their large legs and shoulders
They got some of the ygliest chicks I ever saw in my life, though. Explains the ill temper. Don't tell the somoans I said that.

Lewis vs. Rahman II
Hearns vs. Duran
Lyle's Right on Foreman in the 2nd rd.
Shavers on Holmes
Julian Jackson on Norris in rd. 2

There are harder punches, but the uppercut Tyson put on Buster Douglas during an exchange really put Buster on his ass while he was in the middle of whooping Tyson. Tyson lost of course, but that punch was quintessential Iron Mike.

sucks that buster had a centruy to get up after tyson knocked him out

sucks that buster had a centruy to get up after tyson knocked him out
Yep. The ref seemed so stunned that Tyson just laid him out that he lost at least 2 or 3 seconds on the count. Gotta give it to Buster for at least getting up though. Most fighters who were hit that hard by Tyson weren't even coherent.

Buster wasn't that hurt when Tyson dropped him. He was pounding the ground halfway through the count, annoyed that he was caught.

After that, school was back in session......with Tyson getting quite a lesson & a vicious ass-beating.

kinda makes me think tyson did lose that fight on purpose and wanst suppose to knock out james liek that...


better yet someoen answer this WHY JAMES DOUGLESS of alllll the heavyweights at that time why why why him to beat tyson?

douglas's feat that night in tokyo was one of the extremely rare occassions where a fighter's performace exceeds their skill, as pointed out by vb.

Buster wasn't that hurt when Tyson dropped him. He was pounding the ground halfway through the count, annoyed that he was caught.

After that, school was back in session......with Tyson getting quite a lesson & a vicious ass-beating.
He wasn't that hurt because Tyson was getting his ass handed to him when he caught Douglas. Not as much power I would naturally assume. Hell, just the fact that Tyson put that man down like that is enough to warrant props from me. It showed Douglas that no matter what, you can't take it easy until Tyson is Ko'ed.

Buster wasn't that hurt when Tyson dropped him. He was pounding the ground halfway through the count, annoyed that he was caught.

After that, school was back in session......with Tyson getting quite a lesson & a vicious ass-beating.


pfff the round ended once he got up mike beat him there and if there was more time it woulda been over in that round

I'm not sure but Ike's half hook half uppercut on chris byrd was spectacular!

Ibeabuchi/Byrd - That uppercut would have KO'd any HW today...vicious punch

Hearns/Duran - The fact that Duran was coming off the ropes when Hearns hit him with that violent punch made it much more brutal.

As for punches that were brutal but didn't KO the other guy I'd have to say Holmes/Shavers and Mugabi/Hagler. Hagler ate a monsterous uppercut from one of the hardest punchers the sport has ever seen...not to mention that Mugabi was 25-0...and he straight up ate it and kept coming. I don't know how Holmes managed to get up from that shot Shavers hit him with.

Tyson vs Botha

I don't know how Holmes managed to get up from that shot Shavers hit him with.


thats one of the things that made holmes a legend, his iron chin

Lewis-Rahman 2

I remember seeing Razor Ruddock KO Dokes with his left hook/uppercut hybrid punch. Dokes was out for like 30 minutes from that punch.

Lewis-Rahman II
Thats it for me, when you factor in how clean and hard the shot was, wow! I couldn't believe that Rahmans corner told him to just put his hands up like that and move back. I was like WTF!

anyone have lewis rahman II?

Sam Peter vs. Jeremy Williams
I thought that Williams was dead after seeing him lay motionless on the canvas for seven minutes.

I used to live in San Francisco, nothing but Somoans. Tua is a beast.
yup i live in the city too... and its good having somoans as bak up... nah mean... big and powerful...

Must confess i saw the Herol Graham v Julian Jackson fight live - and it was sickening!. I love boxing but sometimes,in situations like that, you do question how the hell you can love something that involves such a vicous ko.

Herol was kicking the f*** out of him at the time too.....

My vote is david tua's first real connected hook on Michael Moorer. that punch was just a beast.

2nd runner up- Herol Graham getting KO'd by julian jackson.(see sig)

the only really ones that are worthy of posting are when both fighters collide, like Herol in my sig is coming up with his leg strength as he gets punched, multiplying the damage


Mike Weaver knocking out Big John Tate.

Ray Mercer crushing Tommy Morrison wasn't bad either.......

I too used to live in Sanfrancisco and people thought i was Somoan. Tua is just a puncher nothing else.

The first knockdown of the Tyson Holmes fight. What a right hand!!

lewis rahman 1... lewis smiled at rahman b4 he was caught by a wicked rahman punch...

the left-uppercut thrown by pacquaio on fahsan 3k battery

it was nasty... so nasty that the thai fighter was literally "lifted" on both feet

My vote has to go to ike vs bryd................what a left uppercut.

Any hit by Tyson in his prime was pretty hard.

Man, i don't know. There's a couple that i could pick out from some of Tysons fights. But, there's one with Verda vs. Ward (a woman boxing match) where Ward freakin levels verda. It's an amazing looking punch.

Spinks-Johnson and Laporte-Lockridge

It wasnt the hardest punch ive ever seen but all the others have been takin.....Trinidad-Vargas that 12th rd left hook that but Vargas down the 1st time. i swear i thought i felt that punch at home

Hopkins KO Tito (Massive overhand right)

Dokes knocking out Gardner in the fourth round.

Ike-BYrd or even Tyson-Etienne, in that fight the way Etienne's knees jsut fell out fropm under him made it look like he got hit with a brick.

There's too many, but the one's that have stuck are some of Naseem Hamed's k.o.'s of Auggie Sanchez, dude had to be taken out of a stretcher, the Prince was one of the most brutal punchers I've ever seen. It's the kinda punch where it leaves the guy still standing on his feet but is already unconscious so they take some more dangerous blows.

the Prince was one of the most brutal punchers I've ever seen. It's the kinda punch where it leaves the guy still standing on his feet but is already unconscious so they take some more dangerous blows.

yeah man, speed kills

sanders style

Hearns-DURAN!!!


Tito-Vargas and Joppy were nice to ...

that jackson won in SlipX sig was nice to

and definately Ike-Byrd

and Foreman-frazier/norton

My vote has to go to ike vs bryd................what a left uppercut.
Agree. Insanely wicked punch!

thats one of the things that made holmes a legend, his iron chin
Larry Holmes excelled at turning his head with the punch before impact, so he wouldn't endure the full force of the blow.
Oscar does a decent job of it too. Just watch the Trinidad fight (in the 8th or 9th round) when Trinidad clocks him with a big right twice in a row, and Oscar just smiles at him...

george foreman uppercut on gerry cooney :boxing:

byrd knocked out cold by ike

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Hearns-DURAN!!!


Tito-Vargas and Joppy were nice to ...

that jackson won in SlipX sig was nice to

and definately Ike-Byrd

and Foreman-frazier/norton
The punch Hearns landed on Duran was brutal.

The one that's in my mind right now is the left hook that Wilson landed on Nwodo. I mean that punch probably could be heard around the arena they were in.

Ibeabuchi/Byrd - That uppercut would have KO'd any HW today...vicious punch

Hearns/Duran - The fact that Duran was coming off the ropes when Hearns hit him with that violent punch made it much more brutal.
As for punches that were brutal but didn't KO the other guy I'd have to say Holmes/Shavers and Mugabi/Hagler. Hagler ate a monsterous uppercut from one of the hardest punchers the sport has ever seen...not to mention that Mugabi was 25-0...and he straight up ate it and kept coming. I don't know how Holmes managed to get up from that shot Shavers hit him with.

Seconded. Duran was asleep before he hit the deck.