Who Are Your Top 5 Best Punchers at 147 Ever?

[RayLeonard82]

There have been a lot of great 147 pounders. Who would you say are the top 5 hardest hitting 147 pounders ever? You can go with Non champions if you want. Id go with

1. Sugar Ray Robinson at 147
2 Tommy Hearns
3. Tito Trinidad
4 Emile Griffith
5 Ray Leonard

[Shanus]

1. Hearns
2. Trinidad
3. Robinson
4. Leonard
5. Armstrong

[Hydro]

Hearns
Cuevas
Trinidad
Robinson

Lemme think about the 5th one.

Emile Griffith wasn't a big puncher.

[oldgringo]

Hearns
Cuevas
Trinidad
Robinson

Lemme think about the 5th one.

Emile Griffith wasn't a big puncher.

I would go ahead and give the 5th spot to Ray Leonard or Jose Napoles. Neither were devastating punchers really, but both were great boxers and could take you out late in fights.

[realheavyhands]

how can you forget sam langford he was knocking ou heavyweights when he was a weltereweight

[Terry A]

As bad a dude that Tommy Hearns was (& probably will always be!) and even though the Hitman owned Cuevas, I think that Cuevas hit harder punch for punch than Hearns did. Cuevas broke jaws, eye sockets, speed bags, ribs...
His problem was he had the impossible task of reaching Hearn's chin. No shot of that. But my opinion is that Pipino Cuevas was that hardest punching welterweight ever. He just didn't always connect...