Rank These HW in terms of Functional boxing strength

You mean physical strength right? A thread was already made about this. Ali is the most physically strongest boxer of all time. He manhandled monsters like sonny liston, george foreman, cleveland williams, and earnie shavers.

 

Look at the dumb plebs on here thinking punching power equates to physical strength.

 

Not a fan, eh?

 

For pure strength, it might go:

Foreman
Jeffries
Louis
Liston
Ali
Johnson
Tyson
Holmes

Boxing strength requires more guesswork.

Foreman's still carries. His forward momentum proved nearly irresistible. He's carried calves on his shoulders and pulled jeeps uphill. A bull in every sense of the word; maybe simple-minded, definitely exploitable, but undeniably strong.

I think Ali and Johnson come in second. Again, it's difficult to put a finger on them because their application involved a touch more guile and wiliness. Being two of the taller ones in their respective eras also put them in an advantageous position.

Liston, like Foreman, bodily pressed opponents into tangles. Sonny was quite often said to have gotten the better of George in sparring. In my opinion, though, his domineering presence contributed more to his opponents' retreat; great strength did not heavily figure into it.

Louis is a curious case here. Not known for a style that put emphasis on strength, he was able to casually lift the giant Carnera off both his feet. Contrast that to Holmes, who was only able to push an unbraced Berbick back a step, one begins to see the clear delineation between the two. I'd lump him up with Jeffries.

 

Who were the journalists?

 

When did Tyson ever exhibit this strength? Johnson was a tremendously strong man in a clinch as Jeffries found out.
Louis manhandled Carnera yet you have these two at the bottom of your list?

 

It is impossible to be definite about such an esoteric attribute but one question :

Which boxer near his own size did Jeffries manhandle?
Johnson pushed his arms up his back and moved him around the ring at will, and this was in the early rounds whilst he was still fresh.
Tom Sharkey,watching from ringside declared,"it's no contest! "Jeffries was 19lbs heavier than Johnson.

 

The incident was reported in the San Francisco Call, August 5 1904.

On the morning of the 4th, Jeff again worked with the 350lb sandbag, handling it with no effort. In the afternoon he played baseball. In the evening Jeff went hunting, and again demonstrated his physical prowess, in a way that made Hercules cleaning of the Augean stable s look easy. After killing a steer, Jeff lifted the carcass without any apparent effort and placed it into a wagon. After it was cut up and weighed, the scales showed 510 pounds.

 

Perhaps he squatted down and lifted one end of the steer onto the truck, while leaving the other end on the ground, then lifted the other end of the steer on to the truck?

 

Tyson fury

 

I'd say a rainbow.:yep Jeffries was a strong man, but Paul Anderson he was not.