Who hits harder, Tyson Fury or Vitali Klitschko

Vitali hits harder on average, Fury punches harder for best-for-best shots

 

Vitali before retirement and clearly. Most of the points I skimmed are certainly making what would be perfectly good points with prime Fury against a very different comeback Vitali. You can't seriously compare Kevin Johnson's VK to Kirk Johnson's. Those aren't the same punches. Vitali hit hard like a Ray Mercer not like a Lennox Lewis but still harder than Fury. Fury is simply not a puncher. He's a creative hitter as a result-getting feature more than being a harder than average hitter by brute force. I've never seen either fight but I am guessing from looking at their records on Wikipedia.

 

Fury hits harder, and if he were fighting Vitali’s competition, there’s definitely potential for him to have a 90% ko rate or higher. Vitali was pillow fisted, even with poor technique, a true heavy handed fighter wouldn’t need that level of volume to take opponents out. I’ve said before, true punchers like Foreman, Duran, and GGG have still hurt their opponents with slow arm shots. Vitali was never on that level of power, but so many pretend that he was for some reason.

 

Vitali

 

A few one punch KO

A few one punch KO's? Fury's KO percentage is crap, the shot he knocked Whyte out with was beautiful but most of his shots I'd rate 7/10 his punch mechanics are crap.

 

Total fights 37
Wins 34
Wins by KO 24
How good were the ten guys Fury couldn't stop?

 

It’s important to consider how they fight. Vitali would throw power punches non stop while there’s many times Fury chose to fight off the back foot.

 

Chisora and Kevin Johnson disagree. But what do they know compared to "rico spadafora".

Vitali isn't Wlad. If his power were "devastating" he wouldn't have needed 8-12 rounds to TKO everyone reasonably tough, if he got the stoppage at all. He couldn't put a dent in blown up LHW Byrd ffs. If he were even a good puncher Lewis would have been KO'd early again.

 

Vitali was fighting an obese lump of cr*p who was looking for a spot to lay down from the opening bell.

Obed Sullivan was by no means iron chinned or particularly good yet it was another 9 round RTD from pre-retirement Vitali. Hoffmann was tough but domestic level, full 12 rounds. Domestic level Danny Williams went 8. Sanders was old, overweight and had a questionable chin and engine, 8 round attrition stoppage. Blown up LHW Byrd, never shaken over 9 rounds. Twice one-punched early Lewis, barely shaken. It was the same pattern all the way through.

 

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How do you answer that without getting hit by both?

And does it matter if both puts you to sleep?.......lol

 

Chisora and Kevin say it's Fury. Fury's got the better and quicker stoppage wins. But it's an article of faith that Vitali is a good puncher when a close look at his record says not really.

Mercer also got a mention but going into the Lewis fight he was in the midst of a 6 fight streak without a KO or KD, 8 fights with only one TKO against a LHW journeyman. Based on that record he likely wouldn't stop Wilder, Chisora, Cunningham or Hammer. But apparently stopping a gassing Morrison with over a dozen flush shots on the ropes is proof of superior punching power.

Some fighters will be propped up regardless of the facts, others will not. Fury's more disliked than Vitali and was underrated for most of his career, whereas Vitali was relatively overrated. Thus there will be a litany of excuses for Vitali.

 

Back to my original response.

How does one know the answer without being hit by both.

And does the answer really matter if they both put you to sleep.

What you did was quote second hand information based on someone else's experience, opinions, etc.... But I would never ask anyone on this board which of these individuals hit harder and expect a factual answer because, no one here knows. Going off their records and KO percentage doesn't mean much....... Most recently, Crawford proclaim that Kavaliauskas hits harder than Canelo. Who can logically argue the opposite without being hit by both.

My first response was a tongue in cheek joke, but since you responded with your logic, I figured, I'd give mine.

 

That's all fair enough. But implicitly saying it's unknowable suggests you regard their power as being similar, which is also reasonable.

 

I'm sorry, where did I suggest that anything about their power being similar?

I asked a question: "Does it really matter if they both put you to sleep?" That's not a suggestion. If I get hit by one and get KO'ed. Then the next fight get hit by the other and get KO'ed. I really don't care which one hits harder, both ended my night early.