The Hardest Hitting Puncher Of All Time

because maybe the shot wasent as hard as it looks. shavers floored holmes . tyson knocked holmes out . tyson hit holmes harder. C'mon, Holmes was younger when Shavers clocked him, I'll take Holmes and Ali's word over yours on who hit harder. Holmes has credited Mike with being a sharp puncher, but when Shavers hit him he said you felt it through your entire body, that shot he leveled him with was so hard Holmes said it had the opposite effect... it woke him up.

Julian Jackson and the g-man.

Julian Jackson, moore, shavers

I still don't know how Holmes got up from that shot Shavers leveled him with. because maybe the shot wasent as hard as it looks. shavers floored holmes . tyson knocked holmes out . tyson hit holmes harder.

Another one is vitali klitstchko. Danny williams said he was still flinching a week after his fight with him. plus almost all of his fights have come by ko or tko.

George Foreman for me. The old version, he looked so slow and so cumbersome, his punches were slow and predictable.............and they still layed people out. Those are ridiculously heavy hands.

WLad Klitcho has more koes then tyson!!!! He has a laser right. thread done!!!

It's hard to say about the old timers because there isn't much film of them out there. I've only seen two fights of Langford, Ketchel and Fitzsimmons, those are good picks though along with Barbados Joe Walcott and Jimmy Wilde based on their records. At heavyweight George Foreman and Earnie Shavers were the hardest hitters.

i second this, along with maybe bob fitz.... they were 160 lbers who proved that their power stayed with them all the way to heavyweight Maybe if guys in the 70's, 80's etc got the chance some of them could of done the same but bottom line, there is no argument when it comes to those two So did Langford, and he's The Ring's Magazine's #2 power puncher of all time. FYI Sam Langford was a natural lightweight.

paulie malignaggi... lol yea hes a true slugger

Sonny Liston also; Shavers, George Foreman, Mike Tyson, Max Bear, Rocky Marciano.

Prime Mike Tyson knocked alot of people out. easy top 5 imho

Pound for pound stanley ketchel i second this, along with maybe bob fitz.... they were 160 lbers who proved that their power stayed with them all the way to heavyweight Maybe if guys in the 70's, 80's etc got the chance some of them could of done the same but bottom line, there is no argument when it comes to those two

Woah, slow down PC paladin...don't waist your time with pawns, there's a dragon you need to slay. And sheep I need to bang

p4p is jackson all time, I think I'ts foreman..even at 40+ years of age he was stopping Holyfield in his tracks. Holyfield if I recall, said Foreman was the hardest puncher he ever faced. With 20 inch arms I believe it. He was probably even heavier handed when he was older, just in his prime he threw 3 times as much.

He said "who is the Hardest hitting Man of all time?" No P4P is mentioned, the hardest hitting man. Some people on here are ****ing retards. Woah, slow down PC paladin...don't waist your time with pawns, there's a dragon you need to slay.

Pound for pound stanley ketchel No, P4P Sam Langford.

This is a tough debate because the thread starter never specified if it's a P4P debate or not. Of course the HW's are going to hit hardest, that's just common physics. In a P4P debate Hearns is top 5 easily. He said "who is the Hardest hitting Man of all time?" No P4P is mentioned, the hardest hitting man. Some people on here are ****ing retards.

The persons best qualified to answer that million dollar question would be Jimmy Doyle, Frankie Campbell, Leavander Johnson and doo koo kim, but since they cant speak for themselves we will have to go by their stoppage times. 4. Ray Mancini Fatally Ko'd duk koo kim, who died 5 days later 3. Jesus Chavez FKO'd Leavander in 4 days. 2. Max Baer FKO'd Campbell in 16 hours 1. Sugar Ray Robinson FKO'd Jimmy Doyle in 2 hours. There are alot more fatatalities in the history of boxing but most of them were fluke shots by mediocre fighters. But I honestly think that Max Baer and Sugar ray had the power to kill at will.

Rocky Marciano "As indestructible as any fighter in history, Marciano walked into-and through- thousands of hard, clean, jolting shots in the manner of a human steamroller, wrecking his opponents with baseball-bat swings to the arms, the midsection, the head, and just about anything else in reach. Always ready to take two or three punches to land one, the determined Marciano melted down the guards of his opponents, and with the shortest arms in the history of the heavyweight division, hewed them down to size." He said of Marciano's right hand power punch, called the "Suzie-Q", "It was one of the most devastating weapons ever brought into a ring." -Bert Sugar The best people to ask, imo. "After a fight with Marciano, it felt like you had been beat all over the upper body with a blackjack or hit with rocks." "He could hurt you, sure, but it was the quantity of his punches. He just had more stamina than anyone else in those days. He was like a bull with gloves."-Archie Moore