Do you consider Holyfield's power underrated or not ?

[Dynamite Kid]

Do you consider Holyfield's power underrated or not ?



Evander Holyfield

Holyfield knocked Bowe down and knocked Buster Douglas out and Mike Tyson could not knock Douglas out (Excuses aside that is a fact)Holyfield scored a nice KO of Adilson Rodrigues to, he took Dwight Qawi out to, which was impressive to me, he also had Michael Moorer on and off the canvas like a beach ball in the rematch.

however when he was a CW he pounded on Carlos De Leon with his best punches and he could not seen to make a dent, he did in the end but De Leon took some hillacious shots, also..........Evander hit Bobby Czyz (middleweight) with the kitchen sink and never hurt him, Evander hit Mike Tyson **** on the chin with his trade mark step back counter over the top with right hand, and by rights if Holy was any kinda puncher, that punch should of taken Tyson out imo, because he caught him clean on the chin, now i know Mike has a decent chin himself but still...

What about Bert Cooper ? Bowe put his lights out in 3 and we know how much trouble Holy had getting rid of Bert.

Alex Stewart gave Evander a tough fight and Tyson made mince meat of Stewart.

[TheGreatA]

I'm not sure if I'd call it underrated or overrated. Holyfield seems to defy logic because he was the first man to knock down Bowe and Mercer while hitting some lesser fighters with everything but the kitchen sink and never came close to stopping them.

[Dynamite Kid]

I'm not sure if I'd call it underrated or overrated. Holyfield seems to defy logic because he was the first man to knock down Bowe and Mercer while hitting some lesser fighters with everything but the kitchen sink and never came close to stopping them.

Yeah its a toughy.

[RightCross94]

I'm not sure if I'd call it underrated or overrated. Holyfield seems to defy logic because he was the first man to knock down Bowe and Mercer while hitting some lesser fighters with everything but the kitchen sink and never came close to stopping them.

Very true........

[Obama]

Let's put it this way. His power was better than Ali's and Holmes. As for the other ppl in the top 10... He was beneath them.

[Slimey Limey]

He had a great left hook, right cross, left or right uppercut etc. Basicely he had decent amount of power in ALL of his punches. That makes him just as powerfull as a lad with just 1 money shot.

Other things that weren't mentioned:

He came the closest to dropping old Foreman. Twice he almost did.

Watch the left hook he dropped Lou Savarese with in his mid 40s.

There is a big Highlight in 2 parts on youtube. It contains a lot of footage displaying his punching power.

[redxl7]

I'm not sure if I'd call it underrated or overrated. Holyfield seems to defy logic because he was the first man to knock down Bowe and Mercer while hitting some lesser fighters with everything but the kitchen sink and never came close to stopping them.

I've never heard anyone put it quite like that, but that's downright brilliant! I couldn't agree more, sometimes I guess he just dug deep and landed some big bombs, like with Bowe and Mercer.

Holyfield's always been one of my personal favorites, mainly because I think he has a lot of heart, I'm a sucker for fighters with a lot of heart.

[Miburo]

I'm not sure if I'd call it underrated or overrated. Holyfield seems to defy logic because he was the first man to knock down Bowe and Mercer while hitting some lesser fighters with everything but the kitchen sink and never came close to stopping them.

Pretty much sums it up. If I recall Bowe went down again in the second Golota fight, but he was a shot fighter by then.

[Caesar]

i think holyfield is better technically then he has got much power