Comments Thread For: The 10 heaviest hitters in today?s heavyweight division

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There is certainly a decent selection of punchers at heavyweight these days, as Elliot Worsell's list of the leading sluggers proves
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this list must have been made by AI or people who now think exactly how AI thinks. gassiev a top 10 heavyweight puncher? never ko'd anyone close to top 10 level, lost the only time he faced a top 10 heavyweight. wilder? 25% ko percentage against top 10 opponents.

[The D3vil]

this list must have been made by AI or people who now think exactly how AI thinks. gassiev a top 10 heavyweight puncher? never ko'd anyone close to top 10 level, lost the only time he faced a top 10 heavyweight. wilder? 25% ko percentage against top 10 opponents.

“I’ve sparred with every single heavyweight you could think of, apart from (former WBO champ) Joseph Parker,” Towers revealed. “And I know when it comes to power Deontay Wilder is in a league of his own. Put it this way: he hits four times harder than Vitali Klitschko, he hits five times harder than Wladimir Klitschko, he hits six times harder than Anthony Joshua and he hits eight times harder than Tyson Fury.”

Source: A Sparring Partner Talks: Deontay Wilder Hits Six Times Harder Than Anthony Joshua! - East Side Boxing News (https://www.boxing247.com/boxing-new...y-joshua/99433)

Can't you just stop your obsessive hate of Wilder for one day?

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I'd put Richard Torrez Jr on the list ahead of Jalolov & Teremoana. He's a little ahead of them in development and is still showing power. He needs to serious step up the competition, though, as he's going from a legit contender in Vianello last time out to a BoxRec one star fighter in Tomas Salek on November 15th. I know this is a stay busy fight while Top Rank is still "working on a broadcast deal" for the past year. But, still.

And I'd put Torrez ahead of Gassiev, too, because Murat has been very inactive the last few years and is mostly fighting low-tier opponents at HW.

Bakole should be on this list, too. Ahead of Torrez, Gassiev, Termoana, and Jalolov.

Got no problem with Deontay being at #1, but it sure would be nice to see him KO somebody with a name again.

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Can't you just stop your obsessive hate of Wilder for one day?

This just means wilder goes all out in sparring trying to ko partners, whilst vitali, wlad only use 60%

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Wilder kod 1 top 10 opponent his entire career. Thats fewer than Zhang, Joshua, Fury, kabayel, dubois, joyce and im sure more. Knocking out bums over and over was a great marketing ploy and worked like a charm.

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This just means wilder goes all out in sparring trying to ko partners, whilst vitali, wlad only use 60%

Actually it means they are lying/sucking up.

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Wilder, up to and through the Fury trilogy floored a whole lot of people. That is FACT, not supposition. He put Fury on the floor 4 times in 2 of the 3 fights, and Fury raved about his power. Fury has been floored 7-8 times in his entire career, with Wilder being responsible for half of that total in 2 of their 3 fights. If a person doesn't recognize Wilder's power they can't be paying attention, IMO. I think his unbelievable KO record was as much a product of the quickness and speed of his strike as of his power, and losing a split second off of that speed has led to his recent slide, much as Mike Tyson depended on the combination of speed and power to overwhelm his opponents until he lost a few milli-seconds off his speed and was suddenly missing punches he would previously have landed and being caught by punches he would have avoided when at his best. Power itself is said to be the last thing to go. Speed, reflexes and balance are not, again, IMO.

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Wilder, up to and through the Fury trilogy floored a whole lot of people. That is FACT, not supposition. He put Fury on the floor 4 times in 2 of the 3 fights, and Fury raved about his power. Fury has been floored 7-8 times in his entire career, with Wilder being responsible for half of that total in 2 of their 3 fights. If a person doesn't recognize Wilder's power they can't be paying attention, IMO. I think his unbelievable KO record was as much a product of the quickness and speed of his strike as of his power, and losing a split second off of that speed has led to his recent slide, much as Mike Tyson depended on the combination of speed and power to overwhelm his opponents until he lost a few milli-seconds off his speed and was suddenly missing punches he would previously have landed and being caught by punches he would have avoided when at his best. Power itself is said to be the last thing to go. Speed, reflexes and balance are not, again, IMO.

Fury has been knocked down by Steve Cunningham Francis ngannou usyk and others. Not the hardest thing to do. Those guys aren't huge punchers at all.

His ko record was a product of soft matchmaking. Wilder suddenly lost his speed thr moment he stepped up his competition? No.

Its not that he doesn't have power but facts are facts. Koing Gerald Washington, spilzka, molina, and that level of competition over and over doesnt mean it translates to the better competition and we know it didnt.

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wilder was a heavy hitter i dont think he should be top of any table now tho