Hardest hitting fighters between 1940-1990 from the LW, WW, and HW divisions

Well I ****ing included it.

And I was going for all-time. :smoke

 

Archie fought both Rock and Sheppard and said Sheppard was the hardest hitter he ever faced. Sheppard is usually overlooked cause he was more like a 'gate keeper' during Louis's reign. He wasn't a great boxer but he sure could hit hard and apparently his chin wasn't too shabby either (gone the distance with Archie, JJW & Lloyd Marshall).

Surf-Bat posted a story by Sheppard's manager telling how Sheppard might have been responsible for the death of Harry Bobo after he iced him during a sparring session. Apparently Bobo was out for hours and complained about headaches frequently after that session. Don't remember the details about the story but it was a spar so they could be wearing headgear, you know...

 

My mistake I was taking the rules of the poll seriously.atsch

 

Well smarten up

 

No man, I said Archie, who fought both Marciano (Rock) and Sheppard, claimed Sheppard hit harder. Don't know about George though. Sheppard had a mean build but was way too small for a HW, and George was a monster of a physical specimen.

 

Satterfield is a good call when it comes to small HW's... He was a frontrunner, but he had real grenades.

He gets overlooked quite a bit.

 

Well, as a 140lb'er, he has respectable power, dangerous, but not consistently one-punch KO power.

He never fought at welter, so that's a non-issue. He was actually a LW that went to 140 because he was ducked by the big names there, so he went north. He could easily make 135.

 

I take that back. He fought at welter, but he was done. Washed up. Coked up.