Frank Bruno's Power Maybe Deserves More Respect?? CHECK OUT THESE COMPARISONS!!

"Oh my god, it's Jumbo Cummings all over again"

 

Big praise indeed to be compared to Shavers and Foreman in punching power. The proof's in the pudding though. The only time I've seen McCall wobbled was from that Bruno right-hand.

 

He can hit. The last guy is boosting him up. The first guy said he was comparable to Foreman's power but not equal to or better. I think that's fair, but he's certainly not at the very top level when assessing raw power.

 

Bruno could really whack.

Just lacked the nerve to put those shots together against a certain level of opponent.

But yeah, to rock Tyson and McCall, give Lennox problems...I think Bruno gets dismissed too easily to be honest.

 

Interestingly I've heard that Jumbo Cummings could hit about as hard as any man who ever lived but lacked the skills to land punches on his better opponents. Watch him nearly KO Bruno at the end of the first round of their fight.

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Bruno was had a clubbing power that was down in part to his incredible strength. When ever he met a world class fighter anywhere near his prime, his power never got the job done.

And that was in part Bruno's problem; because the fighters that were supposed take you a few rounds and teach you some boxing smarts, were the one's Bruno could flatten early, normally by clubbing them in the side and on top of the head.

 

There is no question in my mind that Frank Bruno hit as hard or harder as the best of them... Though his resume doesn't have very many huge wins, it was really the WAY that he beat certain opponents that others couldn't Oliver McCall was never truly tko'd or stopped, as the Lennox Lewis fight ended for other reasons, but Bruno was perhaps the only man to ever truly rock him.. Frank easily destroyed Coetzee, Tillis, Ribalta and a number of other fighters that other good fighters couldn't put away so easily, or even not at all.

 

He's damn lucky that shot landed just 1 second before the bell rang.. Another 5-10 seconds, and Bruno would have had a first round knockout loss to Floyd "jumbo" Cummings.. Don't know if his career would have recovered from that...

 

I find his power incredibly overrated. Any 'name' fighter he beat was at the end of the road. Yes he could hurt people, if they stood still and offered their chin to him. People talk about him hurting tyson as if tysons legs buckled or something like that but from my recollection (granted its a few years from i seen it) he hit tyson just as he was set,or in the middle of, throwing a punch. 10secs later brunos on the ropes getting the dome punched off him. I mentioned this in another thread and i sincerely beleive it; if bruno was from any other country in the world he wouldnt have had the opportunities he had with maybe the exception of the states (in which case he would have been found out in the gyms with the superior sparring partners)

 

^ Thats a little extreme. Bruno had power, he hurt Tyson in both fights, Lewis and if I remember correctly he shook up Mcall a little bit. The problem was he was too dam slow to land sustained shots against the better fighters to get them out of there.

 

Casual fan told me quite assuredly the other day that Frank Bruno was the pound-for-pound hardest puncher who ever lived.

 

perhaps bone crusher smith hit harder, yes?

 

Atleast he took a punch better.

 

A big hitter, but I'm not sure. Again, a fighter who didn't always get his shots off (or decided to spoil)

Not based on his win over Frank anyway.

Aesthetically I'd say Bruno looks the bigger puncher.