Who Hit Harder Lennox Lewis or Sonny Liston

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Lennox Lewis Or Sonny Liston

  1. Lennox Lewis

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  2. Sonny Liston

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  1. QBS

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    Who Hit Harder just in terms of one of their hardest punches
     
  2. dinovelvet

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  6. McGrain

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    No meaningful difference I bet but Lewis was more proven.
     
  7. themaster458

    themaster458 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Lewis easily he was knocking out actual HWs and SHWs not blown up LHWs and CWs.
     
  8. janitor

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    It's not a strong line of argument, but some common opponents said that Liston hit harder than Foreman, and at least one common opponent said that Foreman hit harder than Lewis.

    A bit of he said she said going on there of course, but you might take it to mean that at worst, Lewis didn't hit massively harder than Liston.
     
  9. QBS

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    Liston never hit harder than foreman definitely not tbh most people mean that he was as good as george foreman in terms of boxing but as hard? Definitely not. Was a hard puncher but not in that territory
     
  10. d4n1elc

    d4n1elc DLC Full Member

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    People forget to realise that the average heavyweight in the 60's weighed around 195, and in the 90' and 00's was between 227-230
     
  11. GoldenHulk

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    It depends, I'd say with his jab and left hook Liston, as far as right hand punches I'd say Lewis.
     
  12. Boxed Ears

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    They used to call him Sonny "Flintstone'' because he had the power of a stone-aged cave man and was born from then.
     
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  13. janitor

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    There were common opponents/sparring partners who said that the hit harder.

    We have to take their testimony seriously, in as much as we are ever going to take such testimony seriously.
     
  14. BCS8

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    I'm pretty confident in saying Lewis had a substantially bigger charge of explosives in his gloves than Liston.
     
  15. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    No, most people here remember this, it's well known.

    But how heavy your opponents are has literally nothing to do with how hard you punch. There is absolutely no connection. It is utterly irrelevant.

    It does create an imbalance in evidence, but all this means is that this isn't suitable evidence for drawing conclusions. Which a subset of people rush to do anyway. It is strange.
     
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