Current or former boxers below HW with the punching power of a heavyweight?

[Marchegiano]

925ft-lbs is ungodly powerful. About equal to a .44 at the muzzle.

[LetOutTheCage]

If I was to speculate, it would be Beterbiev in the current generation. Clearly very heavy handed for a light heavyweight.

[chrisJS]

Sam Langford started at lightweight, was really peaking around welterweight and middleweight and even big heavyweights back then who'd fought huge punchers said he hit them harder than anyone ever had. I think he'd widely be considered the most uncommonly power puncher in boxing history but there's not a ton of footage to go by.

[rudy]

Current or former boxers below HW with the punching power of a heavyweight?


is that not the name of the thread??

I take you have not had a fight, make sense by the even the thread i think my answers says it all. if he is a bantamweight knocking out a light heavyweight i am 90% he could not knockout a heavyweight.

Or you gonna tell me USYK does not qualify i am sure you ask people who punches harder Hamed or Usyk ?

it will be Hamed you trying to be smart but this topic is just dumb, like you

[4truth]

Difference between being hit with a bike or a truck.

Speed and power are important. But sheer mass is an unavoidable factor.

truth...

[Nay_Sayer]

Nobody below cw

Example Michael Moorer was a huge puncher at 175 but feather fisted at heavyweight

I think that's a bit unfair. Moorer's power @ HW was respectable. He was no puncher @ the weight but he was able to put some HWs down and out...

[Madison Boxing]

Artur Beterbiev

[SN!PER]

Prime David Haye could drop any heavyweight if he landed clean.

[sentax]

Difference between being hit with a bike or a truck.

Speed and power are important. But sheer mass is an unavoidable factor.

Certainly it's more than just mass though or all the heavyweight champs would be above 250+ lbs.

Wilder got two knockdowns to none on Fury when he was in the ring at 209 lbs vs Fury's 256 lbs.

Mike Tyson hit harder than most of his opponents who had 20+ lbs and many inches of reach on him.

[Toffee]

Certainly it's more than just mass though or all the heavyweight champs would be above 250+ lbs.

Wilder got two knockdowns to none on Fury when he was in the ring at 209 lbs vs Fury's 256 lbs.

Mike Tyson hit harder than most of his opponents who had 20+ lbs and many inches of reach on him.

Usually you're sacrificing a bit of speed as mass increases. Tyson was quick - so he landed. A lot. Old Foreman had nowhere near that speed but could still knock guys into tomorrow.

I think Fury goes in the freak category. A 6ft 9in guy who is focused on boxing. If he committed to a big swing - you'd know about it! It's just not his style, he's far more conservative than that.

Deontay's the opposite. Throws his biggest punch regularly and to hell with the consequences. He's still a big man though. At 6ft 7 he couldn't be anything but a true heavyweight.

Type for type I reckon it applies. For example you know when you've been counterpunched by a bigger man.