Examples please? "Heavy Hands" and "KO Power"

chavez sr!! Curious to see what other people think about the two...or even if there is a difference. Me and a buddy were talking about fighters who are either "Heavy Handed" and fighters who have actual "KO Power". Here is a list of fighters we thought you could classify into one of the two.... Heavy Handed Fighters: Cotto, Margarito, Chavez Sr./Jr., Morales, Urango, Barrera, Glen Johnson, Maidana, Kessler, Darchinyan, Clottey, Foreman (George), Arreola, Katsidis, B-Hop, Mayorga, Cintron.... Actual KO Power: Berto, Mosley, Gamboa, Pacquiao, Kirkland, Prince Naseem, K Bros, Ali, Tyson, JunaMa, Alexander (Devon), JMM, DLH, Tito, RJJ..... Again....just wondering if anyone thinks if there is a difference between the two....nice discussion please?greatest fighter of alll time.....the most exciting , and if he would say i"I am knocking him down in the 3rd round ,he would knock them out in the 3rd round" over 116 fights with on 6 defeats over 86kos 3 different division champ!!back in the days it was not as easy as it is today to a champ ,you had to have at least 5o fights to fight for the championship , today if you have 10 to 20 good fights you are the next contender to the throne !!! so YEs i have my opinion and Julio Cesar Chavez Sr . the real "Campeon of all times" he fought all the best but he was still the best.P4p for many years in a row even with Mike Tyson as a champ !!

Cotto's last opponent was a Jr middleweight who had never been defeated (never mind stopped) guess what he stopped him with... one left hook to the body (and he wasnt even close enough to really blast him) And to the OP : IF george foreman isnt a "KO puncher" i will eat my boot It wasn't any one punch that stopped Foreman in that fight. He was already on shaky legs before that, with his knee injury. Doesn't matter. Cotto's never been a 1 punch lights out guy in his career IMO

KO Power to me is the ability to knock someone out with 1 punch pretty much. Heavy Hands to me would be thudding power. Cotto doesn't knock anyone out with 1 punch, but he does have a lot of "boom" on his punches and they do hurt Cotto's last opponent was a Jr middleweight who had never been defeated (never mind stopped) guess what he stopped him with... one left hook to the body (and he wasnt even close enough to really blast him) And to the OP : IF george foreman isnt a "KO puncher" i will eat my boot

You got it right for the most part just take away some of the names from the KO power like DLH, Berto, and put in Tommy Hearns, Julian Jackson, etc. Basically heavy handed is a guy with decent strenghth that tends to wear down there opponents with shots (like pavlik, margarito) versus a guy with true ONE punch KO power, like Julian Jackson/Hearns, etc. Oscar was a one punch killer when he was a lightweight he had a stick of dynamite in his left hand even as a welterweight Heavy handed guys are the strong punchers they'll hurt a guy through the gloves with short punches they're usually broad at the back and have heavy bones and muscles i dont neccessarily believe we must seperate them from the snapping punchers who generate tremendous leverage and speed. its a rarity to see the two together coupled with the speed and athleticism and timing and boxing skillsn needed to generate a true one punch knockout of a top tier opponent ray robinson could knock a guy out with a right hand from across the ring or a six inch hook duran could kayo a guy so fast he wouldnt know what hit him or just knock him down by hitting him on the gloves

KO Power to me is the ability to knock someone out with 1 punch pretty much. Heavy Hands to me would be thudding power. Cotto doesn't knock anyone out with 1 punch, but he does have a lot of "boom" on his punches and they do hurt

wow....your list for KO power started with Berto? Heavy hands...you're right about fighters like Foreman. That sh*t must feel like sledgehammers..even the ones that got blocked. KO power...you're wrong about Manny. Manny's TKO's have come from an overwhelming accumulation of solid punches...not power. KO power = Tyson, Valero, Vitali, 135 lb Shane Mosley, etc..