Rank these guys in order by punching power

Weaver is the top dog for me. These guys are all pretty close.

 

Smith
Weaver
Rahman/McCall
Maskaev

I won't comment on Brewster since I only saw his fight with Wlad.

 

Smith
Weaver
Brewster
McCall
Rahman
Maskaev

All close

 

I'd say that's a very good call...it's possible to switch Rahman and McCall imo.

 

Donovan Ruddock ranked Smith as the strongest puncher he fought, so he'll go on top.
McCall's best knockouts (Damiani, Lewis, Akinwande) are superior to Weaver's, so he'll follow.
Weaver knocked out and dropped men with better chins than the rest of this list, so he'll go here.
Maskaev knocked out similar opposition to Rahman apart from Lewis and Tua, but Rahman took way too long to not knockout the glass chinned Oleg, so I'll put Maskaev here.
Rahman had better knockouts to Brewster, so he'll go here, and Lamon will be at the bottom.

 

That's a good point. I do think that the two are somewhat interchangeable, as both men's lists are good, but not the greatest.
Lewis, Damiani, Akinwande, and Maskaev for McCall.
Mercado, Tate, Coetzee, and Williams for Weaver.
Either man works at #2.

 

I'd rate Smith at the top, based on his 1-round destruction of Witherspoon.
After that, probably...
2. Weaver
3. Maskaev
4. Rahman
5. McCall
6. Brewster

#3-5 are all fairly interchangeable though, IMO.

 

In three successive bouts covering a year's time, Hercules blasted down the durable Scott LeDoux with a left jab (uncredited but very clear knockdown) one punched Big John Tate out with his left hook, then Coetzee for the count with his right cross. All three episodes were in hostile territory to boot.

Mike doesn't get noted much for his jab, but it was a sharp, hard weapon on LeDoux, knocking Scott all over the ring. (Finally, Weaver opened round 12 by dancing around LeDoux, just to show he could do it and making a statement about his legs and stamina he was supposedly lacking in.)

 

I’d say we’re in agreement on the order, but I’d put Smith and Weaver in a class above the rest, so a gap after that top tier.

 

Ruddock didn't say that Smith hit harder than Tyson. He said that he was physically the strongest.

 

I think it's pretty obvious from what he said about both him and Tyson, that he was saying that Bonecrusher had the harder punch.
"At the weigh in, I tried to feel his strength. I leaned on him and it was like leaning on a wall. He was ****ing unbelievably strong. He was terrifying and embodied what it meant to be a slugger. Bonecrusher would punch through you. I tell you, when he punched me it felt like an earthquake. Every inch of your body felt that power."
"Tyson’s punch was a series of powerful punches, like a submachine gun looking to annihilate you. Tyson has a punch to remember."

 

Bruno also said that Floyd Cummings/Smith/Witherspoon hit him the hardest, but all differently.