Boxers who knocked out/stopped/won against the hardest puncher they've ever faced.

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  1. OP_TheJawBreaker

    OP_TheJawBreaker NOBODY hit like that guy! Full Member

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    Muhammad Ali = Earnie Shavers
    Larry Holmes = Earnie Shavers
    George Foreman = Ron Lyle
    Roy Jones Jr. = Merqui Sosa
    Mike Mccallum = Julian Jackson
    Jake LaMotta = Bob Satterfield
    Sugar Ray Robinson = Artie Levine
    Tex Cobb = Earnie Shavers
    James Tilis = Earnie Shavers
    Mike Weaver = Bernado Mercado
    Chris Eubank = Nigel Benn
    James Toney = Merqui Sosa
    Michael Nunn = Juan Roldan
    Iran Barkley = Thomas Hearns
    Tim Witherspoon = Frank Bruno
    Roberto Duran = Esteban De Jesus
    Aaron Pryor = Antonio Cervantes
    Evander Holyfield = George Foreman
    Marvin Hagler = Every hard puncher he faced
    Sonny Liston = Cleveland Williams
    Archie Moore = Yvon Durelle

    Tell me who do you think is lying or whose talking true ? which realistic and which sounds bull**** ?
     
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    Hearns vs Pipino
    Braxton vs Saad
    Tunney-Dempsey
    Arguello-Ganigan
    Sanchez-Little Red
    Ali vs 2 decades of killer punchers
    Holyfield vs Bowe
     
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    Max Schmeling = Joe Louis
    James „Buster“ Douglas = Mike Tyson
    Ingemar Johansson = Floyd Patterson
    Jerry Quarry = Earnie Shavers
    Mauro Mina = Bob Foster
    Willie Pep = Sandy Saddler
    Billy Papke = Stanley Ketchel
     
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    Greb & Papke 707 Active Member Full Member

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    Do you think bowe punched harder than Tyson? Genuinely curious
     
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    Boxing2019 If you want peace, prepare war. banned Full Member

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    Rahman v Lewis
    Ruiz v Joshua
    Ali v Foreman
    Fury v Klitschko
    Fury v Wilder
    Ali v Shavers
    Spinks v Holmes
    Tokio D. v Tyson
     
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    There ain't no way Sosa hit harder than Enzo, Green and Tarver.
     
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    Yes. Prime Bowe.
     
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    Morrison: Ruddock
    Louis: Baer(s)
    Tyson: Bruno/Ruddock I
    Spinks: Cooney
    Sanders: W Klitschko
     
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    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Obviously, Benn-McClellan.
     
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    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hearns hit harder than Nigel Benn?

    Ask Doug DeWitt (right after the Benn fight at least)....
     
  11. OP_TheJawBreaker

    OP_TheJawBreaker NOBODY hit like that guy! Full Member

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    Iran Barkley said Hearns hit the hardest
     
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    OP_TheJawBreaker NOBODY hit like that guy! Full Member

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    Merqui Sosa hit harder than them, ask Toney, Frank Liles & Roy. He even broke Michael Watson's cheekbone during sparring
     
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    OP_TheJawBreaker NOBODY hit like that guy! Full Member

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    Michael Watson = Nigel Benn
     
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    Carlos Monzon = Rodrigo Valdez
     
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    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hardly surprising.