P4P hardest punchers of all time....

[Jim Jeffries]

names that come to mind when thinking of p4p hardest hitters.

in no order:
jack dempsey 50 ko's in 62 wins
mike tyson 44 ko's in 50 wins
shannon briggs 41 ko's in 47 wins
george foreman 68 ko's in 76 wins
rocky marciano 43 ko's in 49 fights
naseem hammed 31 ko's in 36 wins
nigel benn 35 ko's in 42 wins
wilfredo gomez 42 ko's in 44 wins

How about Vitali Klitschko, 34 ko's in 35 wins, with the highest ko percentage of any Heavyweight champion ever.

[BKM-]

How about Vitali Klitschko, 34 ko's in 35 wins, with the highest ko percentage of any Heavyweight champion ever.

Against mostly tomato cans(I'm talking about the decent ones, like from Walmart) and failing to bring Lennox Lewis down in a 6 round slugfest.

[Hawkins]

I vote Julian Jackson.

[lyrical]

Tyson and Hamed

[them_apples]

Foreman, shavers and Tyson, those stand out the most to me.

Tua, Lewis, bob foster and tommy hearns are some other names I can think of right now...

[hemichromis]

hearns sticks in my mind who else knocks out quality fighters the way he used to? julian jackson nigel benn and naseem hamed are powerhouses also.

earnie shavers probably had the most powerful punch of any boxer ever

[Tuggers1986]

George Foreman

[Steak]

I dont care about the rest, but the top two are undebatably Julian Jackson and Thomas Hearns. Hearns started at Welterweight and was a monsterous puncher, and went up to Light Heavyweight and was still a very feared puncher. You dont see that kind of stuff happen. And he was a one punch=knockout kind of guy, too.

Julian Jackson changed fights with one punch in almost every fight. He would be getting his ass kicked in a good majority of his fights, and would just explode and destroy people in a split second. No fighter in any other weight class had that kind of power punching.

and were talkin about power punching, not wearing opponents down.

[Jim Jeffries]

Against mostly tomato cans(I'm talking about the decent ones, like from Walmart) and failing to bring Lennox Lewis down in a 6 round slugfest.

Gee, he didn't knock out one of the top 15 heavyweights in history (even though he was ahead on points,) he must have been a bum. Show me a fighter who's record isn't padded with tomatoe cans, that's how you build a perfect enough record to get a title shot (unless you win a gold medal.)

[BKM-]

Gee, he didn't knock out one of the top 15 heavyweights in history (even though he was ahead on points,) he must have been a bum. Show me a fighter who's record isn't padded with tomatoe cans, that's how you build a perfect enough record to get a title shot (unless you win a gold medal.)

You are pointing at his KO%. Talking about it like it's something so significant. He's nowhere near the hardest hitters ever, best finishers ever, best punchers ever etc. Before fighting a good chinned fighter in Byrd, he did not KO anyone noteworthy. And after that, he continued to go and hit Lewis more than anyone else and could not get him down atleast once in 6 rounds even though this man was KO'd twice by single punches.

And keep in mind that I'm not trashing Klitchko's legacy and I certainly didn't call him a bum. He's just overrated in the KO department.