Physically strongest heavyweights

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by dmt, Oct 31, 2025.

  1. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

    Joined:
    Dec 18, 2022
    Messages:
    7,356
    Likes Received:
    9,104
    If the journalists reporting Jeffries' feats are telling the truth then he definitely deserves a mention.
     
  2. Turnip mk3

    Turnip mk3 Active Member Full Member

    Joined:
    Feb 6, 2021
    Messages:
    942
    Likes Received:
    1,028
    Mason was a very strong bloke Mercer too apparently
     
    Overhand94 likes this.
  3. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

    Joined:
    Apr 3, 2012
    Messages:
    27,138
    Likes Received:
    18,157
    Forced to pick, I’m going with the 320 pound pharmacy version of Miller over everyone. Adamek was like a little kid in the ring with him.
     
    mr. magoo likes this.
  4. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

    Joined:
    Jul 28, 2009
    Messages:
    56,522
    Likes Received:
    11,035
    Willard was the strongest. End thread.
     
  5. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

    Joined:
    Jan 23, 2022
    Messages:
    5,458
    Likes Received:
    4,536
    Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier were freaks of nature. So were jack Dempsey and Jess WIllard.

    Ken Norton was another specimen and Mike Hercules Weaver!

    More recently, Wilder and Fury.
     
  6. Rollin

    Rollin Boxing Addict Full Member

    Joined:
    Nov 17, 2021
    Messages:
    4,230
    Likes Received:
    6,741
    Blessed to be the first to mention Primo Carnera first. What a specimen, and all clean. This heavy and this well defined shape in his times?
     
    Mike Cannon likes this.
  7. Roughhouse

    Roughhouse Active Member Full Member

    Joined:
    Sep 15, 2012
    Messages:
    741
    Likes Received:
    1,028
    In the ring- George Foreman, I'd say.

    Out of the ring or in general- I'd say maybe George Mostardini? His day job was using a jackhammer and he was inhumanly strong. Just not noteworthy as anything other than a journeyman heavyweight who got one highlight exhibition with then champ Leon Spinks.

    Louis Monaco was a good shout though too. So was Jack O'Halloran.
     
  8. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

    Joined:
    Jan 3, 2007
    Messages:
    51,466
    Likes Received:
    25,966
    Yep. Steroids or not, miller was one thick dude
     
  9. GlaukosTheHammer

    GlaukosTheHammer Boxing Addict banned Full Member

    Joined:
    Nov 7, 2017
    Messages:
    3,110
    Likes Received:
    2,282
    Gogea Mitu

    John Rankin

    Maybe Feab Smith Godfrey