Moses Itauma names his hardest hitting heavyweight....EVER, and more!

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  1. JohnThomas1

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    Itauma it seems is a student of the sport, and a good one.

    Hardest puncher - Earnie Shavers
    Fastest - Michael Dokes
    Heart - Muhammad Ali
    Chin - George Foreman
    Stamina - Evander Holyfield
    Ring IQ - Lennox Lewis

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    That is actually a very impressive list of names I'm impressed with the Dokes mention it means he definitely knows his stuff.

    I don't really disagree with any of the names he listed in those categories.
     
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    Its interesting how Michael Dokes gets a lot of respect on here but people heavily criticise Riddick Bowe for fighting him.
     
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    A peak Dokes Vs Bowes makes for an interesting fight.
     
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    I don’t think it would have lasted much longer. Riddick Bowe was always a good few levels above Dokes.
     
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    I actually don’t really agree with any of these picks aside from hardest puncher but they’re not bad shouts by any means. Just not necessarily the first to come to mind.
     
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    Dokes won the championship in 1982 and Bowe fought a faded version over a decade later in 1993 that's why.

    Bowe is hardly going to get the same credit as if he beat a prime Dokes of the early 1980s.
     
    Dynamicpuncher, Aug 3, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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    Because he had just thrown a world title in the trash to face a has been rather than by far the best challenger in the world.
     
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    In fairness he’s only around 21 years old
     
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    Bowe fought the corpse of Michael Dokes. Dokes was nowhere near prime. He neither earned, nor deserved that title shot.
     
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    Hardest puncher - George Foreman
    Fastest - Michael Dokes
    Heart -This is difficult to assess objectively, and so Frazier (maybe Holyfield, but if someone had bitten Frazier's ear twice...)
    Chin - Muhammad Ali (Among ATG, otherwise they would have entered the combination of McCall and Chuvalo)
    Stamina - Evander Holyfield
    Ring IQ - Muhammad Ali
     
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    Dokes wasn't a bad fighter at all in his hey day.
    Bowe was good, but remember how Tony Tubbs showed him up a bit.
    And Tubbs was well past best then.
     
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    Much better than Itauma's picks imo
    I'd go.
    Hardest puncher - Shavers
    Fastest - Patterson (in terms of hand speed at least)
    Heart - Frazier
    Chin - McCall (though if the criteria is only ATGs, I'd go with Ali, though Foreman wouldn't be a bad shout)
    Stamina - Frazier or Marciano. Holyfield never went 15 at heavy and never showed the same relentless pace as the former two.
    Ring IQ - Ali
     
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    His team has really brought him along with the PR/media training. He used to do youtube interviews where he was clearly high on weed.
     
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    I might be more interested in his opinions in a decade of so.

    I presume these picks are limited to heavyweight?
     
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