P4P Underrated Punchers

[The Surgeon]

good picks for sure

I'll add:

Ray Leonard (on this forum at least)

Juan Manuel Marquez (everyone he's connected with he's hurt)

Excellent picks mate, hey they dont call him "Dinamita" for nothing he is a ****ER
Pac man sure respects his power for one....

[The Surgeon]

Ray Leonard.
Marvin Hagler.
Ezzard Charles.
Pipino Cuevas.

Totally agree on Hagler (for people who actually understand him as the fighter he was anyway, some think he was a mini Mike Tyson...)

Gonna have to disagree on Cuevas though, i havent heard anyone say anything but WOW when it comes to his power....

[Barn]

who underrated cuevas' power? I certainly don't. Maybe as a fighter he's underrated but most people know he can ****.

Don't see him mentioned that often, probably hard to remember as he wasn't quite an ATG.

[Barn]

Pernell whitaker

Good pick...

[The Surgeon]

How about Ali? I dont think he is a ****er by any stretch of the imagination but he hit harder than given credit for, ask Brian London....

[Barn]

How about Ali? I dont think he is a ****er by any stretch of the imagination but he hit harder than given credit for, ask Brian London....

Definitely.

Gavilan? His record doesn't match his power. Check 9:55 of this fight.

[Capaedia]

Floyd Mayweather Jr. at lower weights.

[IronDanHamza]

Harold Johnson.

[New England]

I always found Vitali a touch, just a touch OVERrated until recent years, people now seem to have the measure of his power. Least thats my take

i'd say today that he doesnt have a rep of a huge puncher and doesnt deserve it

his hands and joints are weak and he doesnt really set his feet and turn the punches over. doesnt bend his knees. doesnt really keep his weight where he can transfer it, he'd really just look to move around the ring with big steps.


back in his day however he had a huge right hand
just a huge punch.

people forget it. that's why i think it's underrated personally

he throws two real straight right hands in this entire fight with real extension and leverage. the others he loops a bit and uses his hand more than his knuckles (a bit like he throws them today,)

both through the guard, both during the finish.

that's huge punch. he hasn't hit like that since the layoff


about :50 of the second he lands his first real right hand. before that he's looping it (mostly around the guard / over a jab.) here he throws it straight, it lands through the guard, and johnson goes down.
the second one comes at :20 or :19 of the round, and he goes down even quicker after it lands.

that's a very natural and hard right hand in my eyes with a ton of leverage.

many people around here do overrated his power, especially today, so i can see what you mean. i think it's because of how many knockouts he has. he hardly uses his knuckles today, and basically exhausts his opponents into giving up or selling out and being broken down.

[nomadman]

At heavyweight I definitely think Evander gets a bit shortchanged. Recorded Mercer's first ever KD, stopped Tyson, badly stunned Foreman and was just generally a very sharp and dangerous puncher. Briggs and McCline were both huge punchers when they wanted to be. Danny Williams and Lamon Brewster had underrated power. Williams several time turned big fights around with one or two good shots, even knocked out a guy one handed.