P4P Underrated Punchers

[mickey malone]

Dare i say it, but Hector Camacho could be considered an underrated puncher (or very economical with what power he did have)

And two British fighters who i often watched as a kid have just come to mind..

Terry Downes and John H Stracey, who both imo were underrated punchers.

Honourable mention to Colin Jones aswell.. ''Jones the punch!''

[New England]

outside of boxing his power is overrated, but i'd say among boxing people joe frazier's power has started to get underrated. he had an awesome left hook that held its power throughout the fight.

[The Surgeon]

outside of boxing his power is overrated, but i'd say among boxing people joe frazier's power has started to get underrated. he had an awesome left hook that held its power throughout the fight.

Yeah there is definitely truth to that bro, good shout

[New England]

These guys were mentioned in another thread and I don't know if they'd be considered underrated or just little known, but both Wayne Alexander and Ezra Sellers had some of the best one shot power for their divisions that I can recall.





Plenty of quotes from other fighters to back up their power as well.

shazbot! what a wild fight.

[The Surgeon]

shazbot! what a wild fight.

Woah, u know a fights good when u have to pull out a word like that to describe it! lol

[nomadman]

outside of boxing his power is overrated, but i'd say among boxing people joe frazier's power has started to get underrated. he had an awesome left hook that held its power throughout the fight.

Not to take the thread too off topic but I'll also add Tyson to the mix. Now no one's ever going to call Tyson an underrated puncher in the grand scheme of things, and you'll still hear plenty of people singing his praises, but among more hardcore fans I feel his one shot power tends to get undervalued when compared to other historically well-regarded punchers like Foreman, Liston, Shavers, Baer etc. If he hit anyone flush chances are they were likely to go down, or at least get seriously rocked. That's pretty phenomenal and something I can't really say for any other fighter barring maybe Tua, and that was limited to his left hook.

Like I said, not underrated as a puncher, but underrated as a truly top-level puncher.

[Barn]

Not to take the thread too off topic but I'll also add Tyson to the mix. Now no one's ever going to call Tyson an underrated puncher in the grand scheme of things, and you'll still hear plenty of people singing his praises, but among more hardcore fans I feel his one shot power tends to get undervalued when compared to other historically well-regarded punchers like Foreman, Liston, Shavers, Baer etc. If he hit anyone flush chances are they were likely to go down, or at least get seriously rocked. That's pretty phenomenal and something I can't really say for any other fighter barring maybe Tua, and that was limited to his left hook.

Like I said, not underrated as a puncher, but underrated as a truly top-level puncher.

Agreed, I think he punches harder than Liston and Baer of the names you mentioned. 10x more effective than Shavers however shot for shot I'll go with the Acorn.

[Daddy T]

The person that for me has always stood out as having greatly underrated power is Sugar Ray Leonard.

[Cardinal Buck]

Teddy Reid
James Page
Casamayor
Roy Jones
Tarver
Holyfield
Paul Williams

Valuev actually has some good knockouts. The only problem is that guys would have to stand right in front of him without moving for the right hand to connect.

[nomadman]

Valuev actually has some good knockouts. The only problem is that guys would have to stand right in front of him without moving for the right hand to connect.

Who was it that he knocked out just by sticking his arm in front of him causing the guy to do a somersault on the floor? Barrett?

On the subject of slavic heavyweights, I've heard from several people that Vladimir Virchis possessed phenomenal punching power. I haven't seen enough of his fights to judge so does anyone know if this is true?