Is Jimmy Wilde the hardest puncher p4p ever? UPDATED WITH JIMMY WILDE FOOTAGE

Exactly.

 

Abraham is currently the biggest P4P puncher imo. He cant compete at the very highest level but against a certain standard of opponent he is brutal.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2OWOvB4aw0[/ame]

Sickening KO.

 

The great Latin-American featherweight/lightweight contender Aurelio Herrera is probably up there. The link below contains an outstanding article on him with testimony from plenty of great fighters and scribes alike claiming he was the hardest puncher ever. Have a gander all, it's a top read.

http://www.ibroresearch.com/?p=5112

I haven't seen anyone mention Lew Jenkins yet either, ****ing crippling hitter he was. Nobody's mentioned Dempsey either and whatever you make of the revisionist history that has affected his all-time standing, there should be little doubt that he was, at his best, one of the most destructive of all punchers. Marciano too; you were never the same after his fists had had their way with you, ala Layne, Vingo, LaStarza, Charles, Walcott, Moore etc.

Two other Brits era's apart who haven't been mentioned are Jock McAvoy and Hoko Hodkinson. Flea already said Colin Jones, and seeing as I've brought him up again, I haven't seen many punchers like him who were so sedate, so seemingly without real killer instinct or an awareness of what destructive power they actually had. Surprising in a way and yet not all when you factor in what a nice bloke he's meant to be, yet I'd say he has a fair case for being a harder hitter than someone like even Trinidad in recent years.

Jesus Pimental is a puncher I've been rewatching lately too.

 

Cheers Flea, absolutely cracking scrap......apart from not seeing the KO......****

 

What have I missed Ice? I was responding to Gaz posting Darcy Vs Chip was I not? If so, can't take any credit ;-)

 

Read that on Herrera, Ribs. Was a monster puncher.

Jenkins as well, but I was rolling with footage only otherwise I might've offered Joe

A guy who was a ferocious hitter from Bantam to Feather was Dwight Hawkins, but despite the quality men he fought I've never seen any footage of him knocking about.

 

Good read that, nice one tin ribs :good

 

I'd rate all of the following in no order, as harder punchers

Ray Robinson
Sam Langford
Thomas Hearns
George Foreman
Joe Louis
Ike Williams
Joe Walcott
Julian Jackson
Wilfredo Gomez
Sandy Saddler
Eder Jofre
Terry McGovern
Joe Frazier
Freddie Steele
Alexis Arguello
Mike Tyson

 

you should watch these fights, Steele is one of the best Pd 4 Pd of all time

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBcJ_XbTgNI[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUL-6M9wKwA&feature=related[/ame]


I stand by the pick of fighters that I listed, I don't even think Wilde is the hardest punching flyweight ever, I believe Benny Lynch was a harder puncher and better fighter imho.

 

It cut off before the stoppage....great fight though, really enjoyed it :thumbsup

 

Arguello was, for sure!!!!

 

no problem

 

As for Lynch, the better fighter IMO, and certainly a better puncher than his K.O% would suggest going on the footage we have of him. I'd favour him to beat Wilde, for sure.