Anthony Joshua a top 10 puncher

I'm not sure AJ has knocked out anyone as good as Parker though.

 

Truth....Defeated an over rated 40 Year old and now he is a Top 10 Puncher....

 

Im not saying AJ is a top 10 puncher but I could go down the list and pick out at least 2 cases exactly like Franklin for every top 10 puncher

 

Nonsense

 

AJ always had a great punch.

 

Even the biggest punchers don't KO every opponent. That's just boxing.

 

The HW division is littered with an abundance of animalistic hitters. Joshua isn't top 10. Very good puncher, but definitely not top 10.........or 20

 

Wilder's opponents were so low level it's hard to make comparisons to the best fighters in the modern era, nevermind going back to the old greats.

Would anyone Wilder beat crack the top 100 in the 90s or 70s?

 

Eh. It's splitting hairs to be honest. He's right up there. I would say a ton of fighters are all tied within the top ten. There's not much to differentiate them in terms of raw power.

There's more than ten fighters in the top ten.

 

I can concede this..............

 

I think it's impossible to say. Guys like Lewis and Tyson are often ranked among the 10 best punchers ever at HW, yet quite possibly they weren't even among top 3 punchers of their era (Tua, Morrison and Ruddock quite possibly hit harder, just weren't as good of the boxers Lewis and Tyson were). Then you have the guys like Jimmy Thunder who hit like mule. Nobody would rank him in these lists since he was a fringe contender at best. But man, he could punch! Knocked out Grimsley cold with the first punch after Grimsley went 12 rounds with old Foreman, knocked down Marion Wilson VERY hard, while guys like Briggs, Rahman, Golota couldn't hurt him even slightly.

So, there could be lower-level guys who hit harder than top heavyweight punchers.

And it's impossible to say objectively where AJ ranks in all-time power list. But two things can be said for sure:

1) he has elite power

2) he delivers it very well

 

It's like saying we should judge the best fighters on their worst fights ffs.

Franklin was a bad performance, JOshua is gaining confidence.

Might as well judge Lewis on the Rahman fight, Wlad on his 3 early career loses etc.

 

Top ten puncher of all time? Not enough evidence for me to put him in with that company just yet, though it depends who you have on your top ten list I suppose. He's a much harder puncher than the likes of Max Baer or Earnie Shavers for instance, and they're often stuck on lists like this. But Tua, Tyson, Lennox, Foreman, Wlad? Eh, I think he doesn't quite make the grade.