P4P best punchers all time

[joseph5620]

A few years back Ring magazine came out with its 100 hardest punchers. The only thing I really remeber from it was that Joe Louis was number one. Who are your ten best punchers p4p all time?

Here are mine in no particular order.

Joe Louis
Earnie Shavers
Bob Foster
Wilfredo Gomez
Tommy Hearns
Jimmy Wilde
Stanley Ketchel
Sam Langford
Archie Moore
Naseem Hamed

Good list. I would also include Sonny Liston and Pipino Cuevas. if I had to make a list.

[JAB5239]

Good list. I would also include Sonny Liston and Pipino Cuevas. if I had to make a list.

I was just thinking about Cuevas and where his place may be on an all time punchers list. I can't say Im well versed with his career (basicly the Hearns and Duran fights), but everything I have read points to a brutal puncher.

Its also interesting that he won a piece of the welterweight title before he had turned 19. Nice call Joe.

[KostyaTszyu44]

carlos zarate
julian jackson
joe louis
naseem hamed
vic darchinyan (had to put a current guy in there, and his power is pretty nuts)
tommy hearns
ruben olivares
alexis arguello
george foreman
Sandy Saddler

[KostyaTszyu44]

naseem had incredible punching power, in some cases you wouldnt even need to compare his power on a p4p scale

[The Monk]

For raw power the G-man deserves to be on the list.

[glidesmack]

pound for pound punchers

julian jackson - simple short blasts probably refined on small heavybag.
gerald mclellan - tennis style slams with rotation down to the ankles.
mike tyson - bad intentions
jack dempsey - vic darchinyan style followthrough punches in sparring, adjusted haymaker style hooks and crosses that he could set up in fights
george foreman - very bad intentions, practiced on the heavybag
joe louis - bodyweight punches refined on the heavybag
vic darchinyan - lunging punches with a occasional back leg followthrough like baseball pitcher tim lincecum
bob fitzsimmons - upright, facing target stance, straight over or underhand blasts with either hand. practiced on a ball, not a bag, tied to a rope, not a chain.
jimmy wilde - worked in a mine from like, age 2.

[BennyST]

julian jackson - simple short blasts probably refined on small heavybag.
gerald mclellan - tennis style slams with rotation down to the ankles.
mike tyson - bad intentions
jack dempsey - vic darchinyan style followthrough punches in sparring, adjusted haymaker style hooks and crosses that he could set up in fights
george foreman - very bad intentions, practiced on the heavybag
joe louis - bodyweight punches refined on the heavybag
vic darchinyan - lunging punches with a occasional back leg followthrough like baseball pitcher tim lincecum
bob fitzsimmons - upright, facing target stance, straight over or underhand blasts with either hand. practiced on a ball, not a bag, tied to a rope, not a chain.
jimmy wilde - worked in a mine from like, age 2.

Yeah, most of the usual ones have already been mentioned. I think Jackson had the worst KO's I've seen, to the point where you actually thought he had killed his opponents.

Hearns, if he landed flush, is about the only guy that I know of who could KO anyone from WW to CW. His KO's of Cuevas, Duran, Shuler, Snyder cross all of the aforementioned weight divisions and there have been very few in the history of the sport that could actually blow out a guy with one single punch from 147 to 200 pounds. That's freaky ****e!

His blow out of Duran is especially incredible given Duran's chin and defensive prowess, however absurd the size difference.

[oldgringo]

I'd also like to give Michael Carbajal a shout out. He knocked out good opponents from start to finish. His right hand was often his own personal bail out plan. It got him out of more tough spots (Chiquita, Arce) than he probably cared to be in. It generally only took him one good shot to flatten his opponent too. Where most little guys scored their stoppage victories by pummeling their opponents into submission, Carbajal could do it in an instant.

[Mugwump]

What!?! Hamed was a murderous puncher. Some of the fighters he hit looked like they'd been run over by an eighteen-wheeler.

I'd love to have seen Jimmy Wilde in action. If only half the stories told about his punching power are true he must have been a monstrous hitter.

[Jim Jeffries]

In no particular order,

Earnie Shavers
Bob Foster
George Foreman (215-220 in his prime)
Mike Tyson
Rocky Marciano
Tommy Hearns
Julian Jackson
Wilfredo Gomez
Joe Louis
Sonny Liston
Marvin Hagler

Damn, two many HWs on my list, have to give it some more thought. Didn't start watching much lighter weights until the last few years, Pac, Hamed and Darchinyan come to mind.

Of course best punchers and hardest punchers don't always coincide.