Which fighters with high KO rate you don't consider as punchers

Nikolai Valuev's 68% stoppage rate aint bad but he genuinely cant punch for **** for his size

Calzaghe is what Seamus thinks Marciano is, genuinely a really slow starting attrition puncher with no stoppages at the top level even over shot old men

 

Vitali Klitschko is the first obvious example that springs to mind.

87% KO percentage.

91% of his wins were by stoppage.

Yet, I don't consider that he had genuine, explosive, 1 punch concussive power.

 

David Benavidez is a more recent example. 82% KO ratio but hasn't stopped anyone notable apart from a much smaller and very faded Lemieux. I mean, he couldn't drop Plant or even hurt an old Gvozdyk yet gets touted as some monster or destroyer by some folk. He's not a non-puncher but he rarely scores stoppages off of single shots and has struggled with guys more his size.

 

Hmmm, Salvador Sanchez,he had like around 70 percent-ish stoppage rate,but he was more of a volume puncher,same to Floyd Mayweather when he's still the pretty boy

 

Marciano... a ham and egg attrition puncher in a very weak era. Those little taps did often add up against geriatrics, though.

 

Yory Boy Campos. When I saw his fight with Roger Turner, I think it was, I thought that his power didn't match his record. I have since seen him in the gym and had guys spar with him and he was strong and hit hard but nothing special. (For the record...online you can find video of him sparring up here in Montana when he was playing out the end of his career. What I am referring to was more than a decade earlier, shortly after he fought Oscar.)

 

Candor aside…

strictly speaking p4p…you really think his right hand isn’t a huge punch against any 185-190lb fighter in history?

 

You could get any Commonwealth grade contender a high KO%, simply by matching them against weak opposition.

You could probably get most of us a high KO% for a while, by matching us against nervous first timers.

KO% means nothing without context.

 

That’s the big one. A nigh-talentless arm puncher who’s greatest gift was an impressive ability to take punches to the face, gifted his record, KO ratio, & career on the strength of the worst HW era, I would say, ever in history.

By far his best quality has been his out-of-ring character - at least publicly - so I very much hope he isn’t the grub he’s accused of being.

 

Brian Nielson.

 

Wilfredo Gomez …I’m not saying he didn’t have power…but it wasn’t his best attribute ( In my opinion)

 

Mike Mccallum