Hardest hitting 160lb fighter ever.

[Scott9945]

ill say lamotta if I go by that list.

LaMotta had only 30 KO's in 106 fights.

[MELLY-MEL...]

no jackson or mcclellan? ffs this thread is a joke!

[Pacmanjay]

wow, I didn't even no who McClellan and JJackson was until now. Damn those guys are some serious punchers. So sad what happened to McClellan. Now it scares me to even spar.

[KostyaTszyu44]

wtf is with la motta being there, he wasnt a KO puncher at all

[Miburo]

Probably McClellan, Jackson was more of a 154 guy but would still easily be in the top 3 at 160. Several of the poll names are only perceived to be punchers by posterity (LaMotta especially but Hagler as well, who won by accumulation stoppages and decisions).

[deliveryman]

Out of that list?

Nigel Benn, without a doubt.

Marvin could crack as well, but he didn't have that explosive one punch KO power that Benn possessed.

[El Chicano]

McClellan and Hearns both hit harder than Pavlik. Both have proven power against great fighters. Pavlik's KO'd a bunch of bums.

[J.B.moneY.]

nigel benn

[BennyST]

Probably McClellan, Jackson was more of a 154 guy but would still easily be in the top 3 at 160. Several of the poll names are only perceived to be punchers by posterity (LaMotta especially but Hagler as well, who won by accumulation stoppages and decisions).

Yeah, I'm getting a bit confused by everyone thinking guys like LaMotta and Hagler were devastating punchers. Hagler had solid power and could knock guys out, but LaMotta was the true classic brawler that literally didn't have any power.

Kind of like Juan Diaz today. Great pressure fighter but the only way he stopped guys was through non stop pounding on them for an entire fight. I don't think he had any one punch KO's. Where did this weird myth come from? I've seen it recently a fair bit, along with Hagler also mentioned as one of the great punchers. Hagler was a boxer first. Most of his career he was not considered even a hard puncher. He was thought of as a quick, smart boxer with good movement, counter punching skills and a great jab.

Funnily enough, there is not one guy in that list that I would even think of as being one of the top ten hardest punchers in MW. Benn could maybe sneak in there.

[Roger Mellie]

Jackson,McClellan and Benn in that order IMO.