Fighters who weren't big punchers but had high KO %

[Flo_Raiden]

What are some fighters that you can think of that didn't have ATG punching power, but still had a high KO ratio nevertheless? Pretty much guys that used an accumulation of punches to get the stoppage.

First guy to come to mind would be Mike McCallum. Not a big puncher, but punched hard and well enough to stop other fighters.

[janitor]

The more I look at it the more I come to the conclusion that KO% is not a reliable indicator of power.

If anything it is more a reflection of level of competition.

[orriray59]

Muhammad Ali.

[bladerunner]

Aaron Pryor.

[lora]

Sal Sanchez
Ike Quartey(arguable though)

[LittleRed]

Aaron pryor

Edit: beat to it.

Vitali Klitschko

[Flea Man]

Vitali is the very best example IMO.

[The Funny Man 7]

Freedie Steele is the perfect epitome of the opposite case: a fighter with purportedly gruesome one punch power with a deceptively middle of the road kayo percentage.


I never thought much of Kelly Pavlik's one punch power. He only knocks guys out by landing zillions of well-placed shots. Yes he was reasonably heavy handed, but not nearly as much so as his record suggests.

[SJS19]

Vitali was my first thought.

He doesn't have one shot KO power, but he has heavy hands to the point that you don't shake it off when he hits you, you carry it with you for the rest of the fight.

[janitor]

Originally Posted by Flea Man

Vitali is the very best example IMO.

I am not sold on the idea that he dosnt have top end power.

It is a case where it is hard to be sure.

[orriray59]

Vitali does have good power, but that's diminished by the fact he throws mostly arm punches. If he sat down on every punch he threw, he'd be devastating to some opponents.

Still though, he's a good example. He battered Shannon Briggs something horrid, and couldn't finish him. Yet Lennox Lewis KO'd a prime Briggs. Says a lot.

[janitor]

Originally Posted by orriray59

Vitali does have good power, but that's diminished by the fact he throws mostly arm punches. If he sat down on every punch he threw, he'd be devastating to some opponents.

Still though, he's a good example. He battered Shannon Briggs something horrid, and couldn't finish him. Yet Lennox Lewis KO'd a prime Briggs. Says a lot.

Might say more about finishing ability than power.

Briggs looked like he had been through the mill with Dempsey!

[orriray59]

Originally Posted by janitor

Might say more about finishing ability than power.

Briggs looked like he had been through the mill with Dempsey!

Maybe, still though, the amount of hard shots that Briggs took in the face was ridiculous. Criminal how they let the fight go on, at the end Shannon was just a walking punch bag. Hands at his waist, not throwing punches or moving his head, copping a horrific beating.

[Seamus]

Vitali's power has decreased with age. He's stiff and has bad knees and shoulders. The fluidity and transfer of power just isn't there anymore.

The first one that came to mind, tho he is just borderline, is JCC. Like McCallum he had good power but not great. But opponents, and very good opponents, were stopped for often than not.

[SJS19]

Originally Posted by Seamus

The first one that came to mind, tho he is just borderline, is JCC. Like McCallum he had good power but not great. But opponents, and very good opponents, were stopped for often than not.

Opponents wouldn't be blown away by Chavez, but more often than not they'd be broken down.