What’s your opinion? Your no1? There’s so many to choose from, so I most definitely have had to leave some out of the poll.
I know that Holmes and Ali said Shavers, and I deeply respect that, but I have to go with the results. Foreman. Morrison does not deserve to be in the running.
As you say the heavyweight-division has produced so many nuclear punchers that it's difficult to nominate who is the hardest heavyweight-puncher.However,here goes,my vote is Sonny Liston.
To not have Tyson even in the poll is downright madness. Corrie Sanders and Morrison in the poll over Mike?? LMAO! But for sheer power, I would go with George. Tua belongs in the poll over Morrison and Sanders.
Right. Wilder was outweighed by everyone he faced for the last 12 years of his career. The only people he didn't stop (Parker, Fury and Zhang) outweighed him by 30, 40 or, in Zhang's case, nearly 70 pounds. By comparison, George Foreman outweighed everyone he faced in his comeback. Everyone. You have to go back to 1971 and Stamford Harris to find someone who outweighed George in a fight. And Stamford was a guy who lost nearly three times as often as he won. Not exactly Parker or Zhang. In Wilder's last win, he koed the WBA's #2 contender Robert Helenius in one round. Helenius outweighed Wilder by 39 pounds. George Foreman never even signed to fight anyone who outweighed him by 39 pounds, let alone one who was a ranked contender. Neither did Liston. Most punchers on that list outweighed nearly all of their opponents. Wilder didn't. If Wilder stopped super middleweights he had a huge weight advantage over his whole career, I'd be embarrassed to praise him for being a big puncher. Skinny guys wasting much bigger guys is always more impressive. And Wilder wasted everyone he faced for a decade. And no journeymen or bums went the distance with him or, worse, beat him. Can't say that for most of the others.
1. Foreman 2. Shavers 3. Wlad 4. Lewis 5. Tyson 6. Wilder I rate Wlad slightly ahead of Lewis due to his left hook. Lewis mostly relied on one hand. Yes, Lewis threw a terrific left hook vs Bruno but that wasn't his usual style.