P4P hardest punchers of all time....

[Hudson_Hawk]

I'll stick to just one . . . TYSON

[Mikie]

Hard to say.

[Great]

I have heard several times that it was in fact THE Billy Papke, but that the bout was not recorded as being official. This happened ocassionally in those days. The fact that the Billy Papke listed on boxrec.com has a 0-0 record looks fishy to me. I am glad you guys noticed this. I would really like to know for sure if it was the Papke we're thinking of or not. Not that it changes much, because Jimmy Wilde was still an incredible puncher and an all time great, but I am curious now.

But nevertheless this fight is brought in a record list of the Wilde, and in the list of the Papke there is no index on this fight. Most likely (for certain) it is different boxers with one name.
I am unfortunately not so well familiar with career of the Wilde, but I believe in your opinion, man.

[Hunna]

thats a hard one to answer! obviously heavyweights have the hardest punches, i cant say i know much about past fighters (before the 80s), but in today's boxing world, Kosta Tszyu has one of my votes, along with iron mike.

[TheGreat1]

I know that I am going to just get Tito, Tito, Tito.....with this thread, but seriously Tito does not have a proven one-punch finish. I want to see who is considered the best puncher p4p as proven by their ability to end fights with a single punch regardless of the opposition, be it a p4p top-ten fighter or a chump. Tito I add is not reknowned for dropping people with one-shot and keeping them there, he usually hits them several times.

1. Julian Jackson (widely considered p4p hardest hitter)
2. Mike Tyson (I think the hardest puncher in history)
3. Nigel Benn
4. Gerald McCllelan
5. Thomas Hearns
6. John Mugabi
7. Razor Ruddock (Tyson said he hit him the hardest)
8. Acelino Freitas (I dislike him, but he can ****)
9. Lennox Lewis (Tyson, Ruddock, Rock, Botha)
10.Rocky Marciano
11.Earnie Shavers
12.Arturo Gatti (Ruelas, Gamache)
13.George Foreman (Norton, Frazier)
14.Felix Trinidad
15.Archie Moore
16.Manny Pacquiao(Mab,Jmm)"Harder Hitting Featherweight of all time"

how in the hell can u put LL ahead of forman. i know this is P4P, but they fought at the same weight. i just don't see it.

[Yogi]

I see nobody's mentioned a fighter who is arguably the hardest hitting bantamweight of all-time, in Alfonso Zamora.

Zamora won 33 fights and 32 of those were by knockout, as he ripped through the bantamweight division in the mid 70's. Every punch he threw was with big-time POWER and he threw some great power combinations, as well (straight right/left hook, and especially his straight right/left uppercut/right uppercut/left hook combination...*cringes*). Great balance too, which only aided Zamora in his power.

Zamora's mostly known for losing a shootout with fellow bantamweight ****er, Carlos Zarate, but even in that fight he had Zarate hurt on a couple of occasions early in the fight, before Carlos finally caught up to him in the end (Zarate's better chin and finishing skills got him through that war).

But ask Eusibio Pedroza or Soo Hwan Hong about Zamora's power and I'm sure they'd both speak very highly of it. Zamora battered through Hong's air-tight defense for a few rounds, before finally hurting him in the fourth round with some nasty power shots and finishing with a single left hook. And Pedroza was doing just fine as he danced around while sticking the jab in Zamora's face. Then...BOOM! One single right hand and the fight's over in the second round!

If a guy who doesn't really deserve to be mentioned among the p4p hardest hitters of all-time, does get as many mentions as he has, then I'm certainly not out of line mentioning a fighter that DEFINATELY deserves a mention in this thread.

Punch for punch and pound for pound, Manny Pacquiao doesn't even come close to matching the single shot power of one Alfonso Zamora.

[Raekwon]

how in the hell can u put LL ahead of forman. i know this is P4P, but they fought at the same weight. i just don't see it.

good point id agree with that, i also think felix should be a bit higher up in that list too, but it is very hard to compare with the different weights etc, but yes foreman had a great punch

[sssse]

1. Jimmy Wilde
2. Earnie Shavers
3. Stanley Ketchel
4. Julian Jackson
5. Mike Tyson
6. Joe Louis
7. Thomas Hearns
...

[BodysnatcherFan]

Gerald McClellan i think. 29 KOs, 20 first round KOs. Look at the Danny Mitchell one punch KO(unconscious) as good as any ive seen except Jackson-Graham. He knocked out Jay Bell in 20 seconds with a single body shot. Ive never seen a body shot put a guy paralyzed for that long, absolutely paralyzed on ground. He beat known big punchers Julian Jackson and JohN Mugabi in the first round.

Was weight-drained for Benn fight, irrelevent.

[dodge]

1. Dempsey
2. Tyson
3. SRR
4. George Foreman
5. Marciano
6. Bowe
7. Zab Judah
8. Joe Louis
9. Ray mercer
10.Ike Quartey
This list is off the top of my head