P4P hardest punchers of all time....

[Great]

You simrly don`t know, how my grandmother beats...

[MexicanBoxer]

no one has said wilfredo Gomez yet, c'mon......Jimmy wilde is condidered 2 be the hardest hitter p4p.. he was a flyweight with the power of a middle weight. I heard of him but never saw him, julian jackson is the hardest puncher i ever saw.

[BigMikeD]

Terry Norris

[BigMikeD]

Roberto Duran

[BigMikeD]

Iron Mike Tyson

[BigMikeD]

Foreman is old

[foremanfan]

Hardest puncher ever I'd go for Foreman. I still remember the first of his comeback fights that I watched where in the first round he hits Bert Cooper with a sweeping right hook to the body and Bert gets moved across the ring from the impact of the punch. Awsome power. Tyson is and was a hard puncher but I think he scored a lot of ko's because he was fast and accurate. Guys like Ruddock and Lewis probably had comparable power but wasn't as good at using it.
For pound for pound best I'd look to the middleweight division guys like Jackson, McClennan and Benn in recent years. Sorry but I'm not to great with the much older fighters.

[foremanfan]

Hardest puncher ever I'd go for Foreman. I still remember the first of his comeback fights that I watched where in the first round he hits Bert Cooper with a sweeping right hook to the body and Bert gets moved across the ring from the impact of the punch. Awsome power. Tyson is and was a hard puncher but I think he scored a lot of ko's because he was fast and accurate. Guys like Ruddock and Lewis probably had comparable power but wasn't as good at using it.
For pound for pound best I'd look to the middleweight division guys like Jackson, McClennan and Benn in recent years. Sorry but I'm not to great with the much older fighters.

Oh yeah and Tommy Hearns he was amazing.

[plexmc]

I feel u on that

[Kid Achilles]

P4P, I think Jimmy Wilde was the hardest hitter in modern boxing history. Look at some pictures of the guy, he was one of the scrawniest, softest looking fighters you'll ever see. I knew nerds back in middle school with equal or better physiques and yet this guy knocked out Billy Papke who weighed 160 lbs. The same Billy Papke who beat Ketchel (all time great middleweight) the second time the two fought. We're talking about a guy who weighed little over 100 lbs with a 32" chest KOing an extremely good middleweight in three rounds.

Scientists actually ran tests on him because everyone was so perplexed as to how his tiny frame could generate so much force.

Stanley Ketchel was another remarkable puncher for his weight. To bad he died so young, because we'll never know what he could have really achieved.

In terms of all around best power delivered by a boxer I would have to look to the big guys. I'd go with Earnie Shavers followed by Foreman. Max Baer was also a HUGE puncher. Jimmy Braddock claimed that Baer hit harder than Joe Louis, and I've heard the same from sparring partners and others who had faced both men. Pound for pound heavyweight powerhouses include Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, and Marciano.

Tyson never impressed me as much in terms of sheer one punch power, for all of his 220 lbs. He certainly combined speed and power with greater effect than anyone since Dempsey but I think Foreman and Shavers were both harder (not neccesarily better or cleaner) punchers and weighed close to what Tyson weighed in his prime.