Top 10 Fighters With The Fastest Hand Speed

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  1. Tramell

    Tramell Hypocrites Love to Pray & Be Seen. Mathew 6:5 Full Member

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    1. Roy Jones Jr.
    2. Ray Robinson
    3. Meldrick Taylor
    4. Manny Pacquiao
    5. Ray Leonard.
    6. Muhammad Ali
    7. Mike Tyson
    8. Floyd Mayweather
    9. Hector Camacho
    10. Hank Amrstrong


    Never seen a fighter who could throw 4 left hooks in a row without getting countered: Roy Jones did that.
    Never seen a fighter who can throw fast & lethal combos like Roy.
    Ray Robinson seems to have the fastest hand speed from Point A to B.
    Roy does it in combinations.

    Meldrick had the flashiest combos in motion.
    Pac has the fastest throwing from angles, but like Ray Leonard -they need a non-mobile fighter to display.
    Standing Flat Footed, Ray can throw blitzing combinations.

    Ali & Mike are unmatched in the HW division...Long way from 1-2 and .....#3 spot.

    Floyd is fast throwing point A to B, but he prefers accuracy over anything else.

    Camacho was the baddest at throwing while moving. As a southpaw made his speed the more exciting.

    Hank threw nonstop, after so many rounds, his speed never slowed. Over the course of a fight, he maintains hand speed unlike anyone.
     
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  2. Pakkuman

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    Well, for Floyd, he's fast because he throws so few punches. When he put together combos for Ortiz, he looked fast, but nothing crazy.
     
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  3. Tramell

    Tramell Hypocrites Love to Pray & Be Seen. Mathew 6:5 Full Member

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    I actually am in the minority for thsoe who say he throws fast combos. Not to me.

    He rarely engages in opening himself long enough.
    Nacho Beristein said he was the fastest against JMM over Pac, but to me that is in terms of "pot-shotting:

    But even still I give that edge to Roy. Then Ray Robinson had the fastest in terms of one punch KO power.

    Meldrick Taylor vs McGirt was a marvelous display of handspeed.
     
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  4. Johnny_B

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    RJJ is also my pick. But Tyson had faster hands than Ali. Floyd Patterson was also in the same class as these 2 in terms of hand speed.
     
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  5. Babality

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    Camacho is #1.
     
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  6. BELLERS

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    Lomachenko. Throws plenty, at speed & more importantly, rarely misses.
     
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  7. Bulldog24

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    Very strange. Judah was faster than Floyd M, and Floyd P was faster than Ali and Tyson (Tony Tubbs was, too)

    Meldrick Taylor had the fastest hands I've seen. Joe Calzaghe in combination has to be up there
     
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  8. JOKER

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    Rigoblin has pretty fast hands.
     
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  9. blackfella96

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    Gary Russell Jr is fast as f***
     
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  10. 22JM

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    No Margaito? Or Carlos Balomir??
     
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  11. AwardedSteak863

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    Very good list. Another guy that comes to mind is Terry Norris. He had super fast hands.
     
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  12. WhataRock

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    It can be a difficult thing to list definitively as there can be little separating guys and it can be muddied by whether people are ranking them purely on speed or does how good the fighter was overall play a role.

    I've seen guys on here use a tier system in the past and I dug that a little more personally.

    If I could add Howard Davis Jr, Mark "too sharp" Johnson and Lionel Rose into the stir fry that is this thread. Those guys are among the fastest ive seen on film.

    Id agree Roy is pretty peerless at the higher weights.
     
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  13. Serge

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    I'd like to see that top 10 ranked in order of punch resistance
     
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  14. TFP

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    Overall RJJ seems a fair shout, he's the one who probably looked the fastest to the naked eye.

    I wouldnt claim encycolpaedic knowledge of the lighter weight classes all that well but you'd think that some of the ATG featherweights like say Willie Pep [before my time obviously, only seen a few bits & pieces] would score highly.

    a few other good names:

    Naseem Hamed [superb single punch speed if maybe not with combinations]
    Hearns [demonstrably not as fast as say Leonard but still very quick & a personal favourite]
    Sergio Martinez [definitely]
    Calzhage [not all of them heavy, sure, but fast, absolutely] [edit, sorry, already mentioned].
     
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  15. BoxingDialogue

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    Amir Khan is top 5
     
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