Most overlooked monster punchers at heavyweight ..

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  1. Guru88

    Guru88 Active Member Full Member

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    If we are talking solely about power... David Price
     
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  2. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I understand that point, and what i'm saying is that there is nobody that fights in the HEAVYWEIGHT division, aka the verbal diarrhea division, that qualifies as a monster puncher (which i presume to indicate the very hardest of punchers) that won't have been chatted up twenty times on this forum in the last twenty fifteen years.

    Ergo qualifying for "overlooked".

    On the other hand there will be loads of punchers, dozens and dozens, like Actis.
     
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    I don't know if they were overlooked but Ruddock, Morrison, Tua...all left hook monsters. But what is the definition of a puncher? Is it just the 1 signature special punch or geniune power in both hands with several punch variants? So that makes Foreman, Louis, Liston and Tyson superioir punchers. With some guys...it's like that: either they are totally overrated or totally underrated. F.E. Lennoy Lewis or Mike Tyson. On some Lists they are right on the Top, on some lists they are missing (and i saw many "Greatest Puncher" lists) .
     
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  4. CharlieFirpo85

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    Edit: Maybe Mercer and Bowe are overlooked. You don't see them quite often on theese lists.
     
    CharlieFirpo85, Sep 15, 2020
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    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    90% of the above mentioned are only overlooked by casuals. Joe Louis, really?

    Joe Goddard deserves a mention. He was old when he started fighting and all he had was power. He floored a prime Peter Jackson twice, giving him all he could handle. Flattened Maher twice, Choynski and Denver Ed Smith.

    I have heard two guys, including Lamon Brewster, say that Lionel Butler was among the very hardest punchers they ever faced.
     
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  6. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Wilder`s power is insane as is his KO ratio.
     
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    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Most of Bowe`s shots weren`t that powerful, but he was heavy handed and did well to KO the iron chinned Holy, however he and Mercder rarely scored one punch KO`s, despite Mercer`s devastating destruction of Morrison.
     
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    I think lenglet also lost a leg during the war. I read somewhere in the ruins of Paris George Carpenteir found leglet seared in a cafe and immediately offering to manage him. Lenglet agreed to it but warned him that he only had one leg.
     
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    Joey Abell can punch
     
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    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    He apparently hit harder than Sullivan
     
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  11. McGrain

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    Any idea who said so? What they said, all that there.
     
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    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Big Roy Williams could hit
     
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    I think Charlie Retzlaff And Pat Comisky are worth a mention.
     
    choklab, Sep 15, 2020
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    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Good for him. Let him rot in hell.
     
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    none of 'em heavies though Mike
     
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