Top 10 pound-for-pound punchers in your lifetime

I can see Robinson not being mentioned because those people that didn't might not have been alive when he was on the go and the TS mentioned lifetime

 

1. Julian The Hawk Jackson @ 154/160 (same day weigh in)
2. Nigel Benn @ 160 (same day weigh in)
3. Bob Foster @ 175 (same day weigh in)
4. Roy Jones Jr
5. Naseem Hamed
6. Alexis Arguello
7. Wilfredo Gomez
8. Don Lee
9. Khaosai Galaxy
10. Carlos Zarate
11. George Foreman (weighing 217lb)

 

Morlocks has Langford In his list... So it’s not far fetched at all.

 

Morlocks must ANCIENT because if he was around when Langford was on the go, WOW, lol. I was just making the point that the TS mentioned "in your lifetime."

 

That's a pretty good list.

I think the first tendancy for people is to just pick a fighter who scored a lot of KOs at a weight. Like George Foreman, Bob Foster, Wilfredo Gomez or Carlos Zarate.

But, if we're talking pound-for-pound, I'd tend to favor smaller fighters who carried their weight with them up to higher divisions and heavyweights who routinely scored spectacular KOs over fighters who outweighed them considerably.

And some of the first names that come to mind when thinking of punchers either couldn't bring their power up even if it was just a handful of pounds (like Gomez and Foster) or tended to always be the bigger fighter (Foreman).

Heavyweights like Mike Tyson and Deontay Wilder routinely scored spectacular KOs even when they were outweighed 10, 20, 30 pounds (or more in Wilder's case). And guys like Tommy Hearns and Manny Pacquiao went up many divisions and still won titles with demolition jobs.

I haven't come up with a top 10 list yet, but Wilder, Tyson, Hearns, Pacquiao, and those types would be the names I'd consider as best punchers pound-for-pound, because they actually did it, regardless of how heavy an opponent was.

Not boxers who blew people out in one division but then couldn't stop people who were only a handful of pounds heavier.

 

On certain nights, Randally Bailey and Lucas Matthysse seemed to have special powers.

I saw Randall Bailey fight in person once before he won a title (against a guy named Rodney Wilson), and he when the knockout punch landed, the sound in the arena was so loud, it took everyone's breath away.