Which light-heavyweight champion carried their power up best to heavyweight?

How about Adamek?

Not a guy that ever got much love and rarely talked about. He was not a hitter as a lh, but seemed to keep about the same effectiveness at heavy as a hitter. Just got buy on other skills & made a very nice transition to heavyweight.

 

Michael Spinks.

 

Probably Moorer. Spinks could also still hit at heavy, but I don’t know how his power would be against a top heavyweight contender. He did put away Cooney and Taangstad though.

 

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Of that group Moorer. Before him he wasn't a champion but it was Braddock but Braddock more needed to be a HW all along and struggled to carry the power down.

Fitz, Langford, Schreck and Root are 4 from the turn of the century. Root barely fought at HW but his power clearly carried up well and its a shame thats where his career ended. Langford was a 175er for 1-2 fights but he won a title claim. Miske was much better at HW then LHW but did not a title claim in either division. While he had more power he was just a generally better HW then a LHW.

You wonder how Beterbiev would have done if he'd gotten the chance to go HW. I wonder if Lloyd Marshall could have done something special if he went up to HW.

Sheppard fought for the duration LHW title as an injury replacement and was otherwise a HW but he was under 6 foot. He was the "power guy who sells tickets but doesn't win fights".

 

I think Foster was the hardest one punch hitter,but Moore has the best
stoppage record against decent heavies,though there is a fair amount of dross among his ko victories.
Of course he did it in reverse but Fitzsimmons should be mentioned.

 

Beterbiev is on record saying Usyk is now too big for him,I don't think he would be a success at the higher weight.
I don't see Braddock in the equation even IF he had been a Lhvy title holder
apart from Griffin and Roper which heavies of any note did he ko?

 

Beterbiev might be right. But from this past era hes the one you'd send. Something to think about is a fighter today needs to go almost undefeated and hold a belt to "succeed". And when we say "he can't do that" we really mean that and not whether they have a chance because thats not good enough.

Braddock technically had a 0% KO rate at his peak weight. He was above 185 4 times he fought John Henry Lewis, Louis, Max Baer and Farr. Lot of ATGs are going 0-4 there. Louis said Braddock hit the hardest.

Braddock was only 182 for Lasky. Lasky is a softer target then those guys hes 6'4. Braddock also knocked out Tuffy Griffiths with a 4 KD round. It was at LHW but Tuffy was mainly a HW.


Braddock had the most power at HW of any LHW for decades. Of all the other LHW/HWs from the mid 20th century none were really punchers. Braddock was a puncher albeit a horribly mismanaged one. Braddock was an unusual mix of power, size durability and skill. He was one of the best mixes of those things put together. He was not Sam Langford who could obliterate HWs weighing 170 pounds and thats what he was trying to do for much of his career. Sam Langford mind you had a bunch of full decisions to go along with his power feats. Braddock also almost always had just 10 rounds and I don't think they gave out 10-8s for KDs.

Braddock career is 2 runs with an awkward period of being lost in between. He started his career 27-1, finished 7-1 and was below .500 in between.

Mosleys a modern fighter I've been thinking about who was also stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time. He clearly had power had lots of moments and knockdowns where you wondered if he was 20 pounds heavier what he could do.

 

No.Louis said the hardest punch he was ever hit with was by Al Delaney,and the hardest puncher per se was Max Baer.
the big hitters among the Lhv;s at that time would be.
Carpentier , Berlenbach,Delaney,Gainer,McAvoy,Fox. imo.
Including contenders,I sincerely doubt anyone, coming up from Lhvy to Hvy, ever hit harder than Bob Satterfield.

 

How about that

Great call on Satterfield .. Moorer could hit at heavyweight for sure .. then there's Ez ... some find him overrated but I'll say he wasn't and carried his power up quite well.

 

Moorer or Foster.
Fosters problem was he couldn't take the punishment from natural heavyweights.
Moorer may have been a tad better TBH.