Comments Thread For: The 10 biggest punchers in boxing today
BoxingScene pays homage to the fighters who don?t like to leave it to the judges by compiling the leading 10, according to their KO percentage
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and this is why the phrase a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing exists or in this case a little bit of statistics is a dangerous thing. subaru muratu is the biggest puncher because he knocked out all 10 bums he has fought...please.
wilder who has knocked out 1 top 10(ring) opponent his entire career is one of the biggest punchers? please.
yabuki knocked out teraji when teraji was #1, he knocked out ayala when ayala was #1, he knocked out nontshinga when he was top 3, he just knocked out alvarado who was top 10. wilder never knocked out anyone in the top 3. oh but he racked up a higher ko percenage...yeah because he fought weaker comp just like murata is doing now.
Second, competition matters. Butterbean scored a bunch of knockouts too. A fighter that has a ton of knockouts against champions is 10,000 percent better than a fighter that knocks out tomato cans.
Why does the KO percentage not include the fights that the lost or drew? They have surely been in a fight and didn't KO the opponent in that fight. If someone had 40 fights, won 4 by KO and lost the other 36 would you say they had a 100% KO ratio?
Never would I have imagined a top 10 list where two names in it start with the letters "Sub". Crazy.
That said, I'm Okay with the list. Surprised Virgil Ortiz wasn't up there. Wilder a has been. Though what I find among all of them is actually Matias being the oddity in that he doesn't have 1 punch power. He's always been a guy who looks like he doesn't even throw hard, but the sheer volume adds up to damage that most opponents can't withstand for long and this produces him KOs.
I'm okay with the list because it's only look at it in statistics. I know they only wrote this to make the fans mad and get clicks lol. But they still should have included Inoue and Zhang in there somewhere...
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