The hardest punch landed that a fighter just shook off

Some of the ones Chris Finnegan was taking off Bob Foster. Too many to mention off hand, but some in the later rounds were bone breaking - literally. The same punches cracked Vicente Rondon's skull and sparked Dick Tiger and Mike Quarry. Finnegan was tough.

 

Bob Foster just spoke of that fight and how tough Finnegen was

 

Several right crosses McCall took from Bruno. They'd drop even Chuvalo and Jeffries, but not the Atomic Bull.

 

How about Foreman's left hook against Chuvalo.

Chuvalo almost comes off his feet, rocks back into the ropes, then merely hides behind his own shoulder in futile effort to defend against the rest of the onslaught...

Like the Hagler versus Mugabi call. Crystal clean uppercut...

How about Fraziers left hook bombs in the 6th (?) of the Thrilla. Ed Schuyler quote from Hausers book

'...Frazier hit Ali with a left hook thats the hardest punch Ive ever seen. Alis head turned like it was on a swivel, and his response was to look at Frazier and say I thought Joe Frazier was washed up.'

Magical stuff.

 

Danny Williams vs. Mike Tyson. Not one shot in particular, but lots of powerful blows.

Mercer vs. Lewis' right hands.

Tua vs. Ibeabuchi. Both guys shook off monster shots.

 

You almost ended this thread before it got started!

In their rematch, Arguello also caught Vilomar Fernandez coming in with a similar flush right hand that didn't faze Vilomar. (At least Alexis was able to drop Fernandez once in their second bout though.)

Jerry Quarry claimed immediately after his blowout of Shavers that Earnie never hit him, but Shavers has stated on camera that he did nail Jerry solidly with his right.

Much of Foreman's reputation for a solid chin during his second career is based on walking through Cooney's best left hook.

The turning point in Joe Louis/Max Baer was when Joe took Maxie's best right, and immediately started pounding Baer backwards during an exchange of fire, which had Louis in retreat until that instant.

To the best of my knowledge, both Vito Antuofermo and Marvin Hagler have stated that Cyclone Hart's hook was the hardest punch they'd ever been hit by, yet both walked through it.

There is an award winning photograph of Ray Robinson distorting Kid Gavilan's face with the same sort of left hook he kayoed Gene Fullmer with. Robby got eveything into it, but the Keed continued on.

The famous shot of Rocky Marciano's face distorting mid-ring right on Jersey Joe Walcott was NOT of the knockout punch (which came later in their match). Walcott saw this earlier punch coming (and is looking right at it in the snapshot), and went through it. (I'd need to scrutinize the complete footage of Marciano/Walcott I to locate the synchronization of lightbulb flash and boxing action which would pinpoint exactly when that picture was actually taken.)

 

mitch blood green vs mike tyson, green took wicked shots that would hurt anyone else but mitch has prolly the best chin out there, and mccall vs lewis II, mccall was taking shots from lennox with his hands down by his waist unfazed, another great chin

 

The one Mayorga let Tito throw on him, I think he threw 2 punches and the second one hurt him a little bit. Those punches would have been KO is Mayorga didn't see them coming. Stupid thing to do, but Mayorga's ego took them well

 

very true becuase maricano is facing another direction he has full extension of the punch in the pic we are talking of but the knock out punch was actually a hook and marciano was facing another direction

 

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Ward on Gatti

 

In recent times, that monster uppercut Lewis hit Vitali with.

Hagler taking a big right from Hearns without getting fazed.

The first pick on this thread with Arguello's right hand on Pryor takes the cake for me.

 

In Skehan's biography of Marciano (at least I think that's where I read it-the book was borrowed), the punch which won the title for Rocky was described as "a tremendous short right," rather than a Suzy Q, a clairification borne out by the movie clip. That superb post you've produced revealing the differences exposes the classic mid-ring shot as the "Flag Raising on Iwo Jima" of boxing images. Perhaps the best single image in boxing history, but not the big moment during the event itself. (The true first flag raising on Iwo was a rather mundane photographic image, but that was also the triggering gesture which actually inflamed the Japanese on the island into a fury at the time.)

The big question is, when was that mid-ring punch snapped, and for that, we'd probably need access to the complete footage of the bout to scour. (I haven't viewed it in ages.) Significantly, there is no camera flash at the instant Marciano's kayo punch makes contact, only in the moment after, as he's following through on the footage.