Who is the P4P hardest puncher of all time?

I know Tyson has plenty of 1 punch knockdowns, but he was the type to bounce guys off of the canvas before the stoppage/final knockdown. He rarely knocked guys unconcious. Guys like Julian Jackson, Arthur Abraham, Rocky Marciano, and Wladimir Klitschko have knocked out plenty of people unconcious for well over a minute with single punches.

Guys like Foreman, Shavers, Tyson, Dempsey, Lewis, etc would bounce guys off of the canvas repeatedly until the ref stepped in or the other guy simply didn't get up, despite being concious and looking around.

There are different types of punchers, sharp punchers (Tyson, Hearns), sheer force punchers (Shavers, Foreman, Tua), 1 punch lights out punchers (Jackson, Marciano, Wlad), and mixes (Lewis). Some, despite being more dangerous, aren't necessarily harder. I'd rather face a Shavers, Foreman, or Tua type puncher over a Tyson, Hearns, or Jackson type puncher.

 

Well, Fitz was smaller than Toney.. But he also knocked out Corbett when he was the Heavyweight Champ.. Toney would have had to do it in Holy's prime for the lineal HW title, to be even comparable.

 

Julian Jackson for me. He didn't score stoppages, he scored clean, one punch KO's.

 

Im going to really challenge this popular Jackson notion.

Against who? and only within a 6lb range. Bob Foster scored equally scary KO's against better, notoriously iron chinned compitition like Dick Tiger yet his power did nothing at HW. I have a hard time calling anybody a P4P puncher if they never proved through multiple weight classes or against heavier men.

Weight aside Steele, Hostak, C.Garcia are without a doubt better MW P4P punchers having proved it against elite opposition (although Garcia and Steele did start at WW) and while Lausse and Fernandez's opposition is less than those 3 above i wouldn't be suprised if they hit harder than Jackson. Jackson encountered two men in his own era McCallum and McClellan who were able to actually walk through his shots, pressure him and eventually stop him. Lausse on the other hand backed up iron chinned Fullmer for 10 rounds even though he didn't stop him. Norris, Graham and Baek are probably the three best fighters Jackson stopped with Graham being the only clean KO (Norris did beat the count)

 

"Tommy Hearns at 160 pounds could knock out a heavyweight."

- Mike Tyson

[url]http://youtu.be/5myL5x-qmd8[/url]

 

Earnie Shavers.

Larry Holmes: "Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis."

Muhammad Ali: "Earnie hit me so hard, he shook my kinfolk back in Africa"

Ron Lyle: "Hardest he's ever been hit: Earnie Shavers. The ground came up and met me. That's all I remember."

James Tillis: "Shavers hit so hard he turned horse p*ss into gasoline! He hit me so hard he brought back tomorrow. When he hit me… I was seeing pink rats and cats and animals smoking cigarettes. I was in the land of make-believe."

He KO'd 27 opponents in a row.

Need I say more?

 

GOAT

Mike Tyson

active

Magomed Abdusalamov

 

Mike Oxlong

 

Hearns
Jackson
Foreman
Hamed

The rest.

 

Not this crap again. :tired

and..fixed for accuracy

 

Duran Arguello Dempsey Young Tyson Lennox Nonito

 

Valero is up there

 

I skimmed through this whole thread, and while I get that's it's normal to think back for such things, I'm still surprised to see no mention of Mathyse.

I mean, P4p, right?

MA - FRICKING - THYSE !

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Then again, I'm still going with Nigel Benn:

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ad7oaGp5vY[/url]

- He's surely right there along with Jackson.

 

joe louis maybe

 

The Boston Tar Baby. The original Joe Walcott. Barely 5-6 and he KO'd top heavyweights.