Most Destructive Puncher of All Time

[beez721]

For their weight?

Who is it?

You remember what Tommy Hearns did to Roberto Duran? You remember Bob Foster? How about Julian Jackson? Naseem Hamed? Nigel Benn? Jimmy Wilde on a p4p? Maybe even Rocky Marciano? Come on, discuss this **** right now.

1) tommy hearns 2)aaron pryor 3)joe loius

[beez721]

1) tommy hearns 2)aaron pryor 3)joe loius

actually gerald mclellan should be in that mix as well. he was a bad mo fo. crushing lb for lb power

[beez721]

Here is a list of fighters with what I consider extreme punching power in no order:

George Foreman (probably the hardest hitting human being of all time)
Earnie Shavers
Marvin Hagler
Thomas Hearns
Julian Jackson
Gerald Mclellan
Nigel Benn

****loads more, but I can't be arsed.

hagler? please,,,he was a great fighter but not a devastating puncher. not top 10 for sure. I agree with the rest besides benn

[mECHsLAVE]

All-time: Marciano. His destructive power was shown not only against very good opposition, but against fighters routinely bigger than he was. Foreman is second. Then one of his victioms, Moorer, comes to mind at LHW- his level of opposition wasn't that great- BUT he did show devastating power. Tyson, also. Man, there are a lot that deserve mention all-time. Dempsey, Louis, etc etc.

Active: Lacy. He's the only active guy (if Tyson is retired) that even makes me think "destructive power." And he's shown it against solid opposition.

[Orange Sneakers]

Believe me Gerald Mcclellan was not as hard a puncher as a prime Hearns,a dangerous Jackson or an early/wild Benn who were all actually single-shot knockout punchers to the head. Mcclellan never put anybody to sleep,he ended the vast majority of his fights with his trademark left hook to the body. Mcclellan finished 15 guys in one round with the same two-punch combination- it was an overhand right to head followed by a left hook to body. He also had five other first-round wins(20 in total) but I never saw Mcclellan put anybody to sleep so you just have to say that he didnt have the same knockout punch as the Hearns lightning right cross or the Jackson come-from-behind one big punch or the free-swinging Benn with 22 knockouts in a row.

[Tha Greatest]

Hearns
Jackson
McLellan
Fitzsimmons
Ketchell
Arguello
Zarate
Louis
Hamed
Shavers
Foreman
Marciano

[jayschre]

All I've gotta say is that Julian Jackson has to be either number 1 or 2 on any of these lists, when he hit people it would sound like a ******* blast! Don't believe me? All you gotta do is watch the Norris fight with the sound turned up loud and wait for that right to land!

[NAB]

All I've gotta say is that Julian Jackson has to be either number 1 or 2 on any of these lists, when he hit people it would sound like a ******* blast! Don't believe me? All you gotta do is watch the Norris fight with the sound turned up loud and wait for that right to land!

I totally agree.

This has been done to death - I don't know why the moronic author of the thread doesn't go back & bump a previous thread with the EXACT SAME QUESTION.

[beez721]

All I've gotta say is that Julian Jackson has to be either number 1 or 2 on any of these lists, when he hit people it would sound like a ******* blast! Don't believe me? All you gotta do is watch the Norris fight with the sound turned up loud and wait for that right to land!

shouldnt use norris as an example. he made light hitting troy waters look like a big puncher

[NAB]

shouldnt use norris as an example. he made light hitting troy waters look like a big puncher

Troy Waters was anything but light hitting.