In your opinion, who is the strongest heavyweight boxer ever, and why?

If we are talking pure physical strenght it might be ngannou if we are calling him a boxer

 

It would have to be Foreman for me if we are talking ATG ranking and sheer brute strength. I'm sure there are some obscure that were stronger but not as successful.

 

Probably George Foreman

 

Hughie Fury with his new man strength is beyond compare.

 

boring answer - almost certainly some no-name club fighter who was more interested in weightlifting, bodybuilding, strongman, or similar.

of the really good fighters, though, eg people who got a title shot or very close to one... i dunno, some of the Brits would come close, Bruno, Lewis, Joshua... or maybe Shavers, Norton, the Klitschko's, Value, Sam peters...??

 

Clinch is half about technique and leverage. So is clinch avoidance. I don't think anybody would put Usyk on this list of strongest HWs, but look at what happens when opponents try to clinch him. It doesn't work, he fends them off and gets away pretty much every time, and they stop trying. Technique. I'd wager when he moved up his trainer brought in some big dudes who were good at clinching and had him practice defense over and over. Damn smart move if true.

That said, I'm sure Wlad was as strong as a Ukranian ox or two. I recall seeing Steward saying that both of the brothers were the best athletes he'd ever worked with in terms of strength, sprints, ability to sustain high intensity cardio, etc. (hell, don't they both have literal PhDs in sports science? i'm sure they liked to get real scientific and high-tech with their training techniques)

 

There we go, case closed.

 

What nobody saw was the steak and kidney pie that his trainer was dangling at the end of a fishing rod as Fury lay there counting the stars. If the camera had zoomed out it would have been obvious what was going on. Also, I just made up a rumour that Fury had Guinness in his water bottle.

 

Eddie Hall&Thor but even though they technically fought in a professional boxing match they don’t really count.

Foreman is probably the strongest real boxer, he’s brute strength was something else.

 

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George

 

There's punching strength, functional/clinching strength, and weight lifting strength.

If you combine all three aspects, I would say probably Wladimir.

 

Anyone said Rahman yet? He could bench 600.

George, Lennox, and the brothers K all good answers.

 

come to think of it, old, whatshisname, 'let's go champ', shannon briggs looked like a very strong chap.

 

So weird with basketball players. Every talks about what great athletes they are on the court when they are playing yet as soon as 2 of them square up to each other an attempt to fight, they look totalling unbalanced an as uncoordinated as you can get like 2 drunks throwing awkward looking punches an slaps that almost always misses ha ha