Fighters who have fought the most knockout artists

Duran had Leonard, Moore, Cuevas, Hagler, Hearns and Barkley. Leonard and Hagler probably didn't have that level of raw power, but combined with their skill it was very dangerous.

Holy had Foreman, Tyson and Lewis. And while Bowe didn't have that level of power, it was still good and combined with his sharpness it made him dangerous.

Lewis met plenty of bangers. Ruddock, Bruno, Morrisson, Briggs, Tua and Tyson. Vitaly was more of the attrition kind maybe than these guys, but he had heavy hands.

 

James Tillis fought:
Shavers
Tyson
Weaver
Witherspoon
Bruno
Coetzee
Gary Mason (26 kos in 27 wins at the time)
Tommy Morrison

and Holyfield and Pinklon Thomas who I don´t consider big punchers at the weight but certainly could cause damage.

 

Good call.

 

Olivares fought Medel, Pimentel, Arguello, Hafey, Little Red, Chacon, Efren Torres, Rafa Herrera, Kotey.

Langford fought Gans, Walcott, Holly, Ketchel, Young Peter Jackson, Jennette, Flynn, McVea, Dixie Kid, Jeff Clark, Iron Hague, Bill Lang, Jim Johnson, Wills, Fulton, Godfrey off the top of my head and more that I've probably missed.

Charles fought Moore, Louis, Walcott, Marciano, Marshall, Ray, Oakland Billy Smith, Valdes, Layne, Satterfield.

 

Arguello fought Pascualito, Olivares, Hafey, Ganigan, Torres, Kobayashi, Limon, Ramirez, Mancini, Chacon.

 

Sanderline Williams fought:
Lindell Holmes
Dwight Davidson
Don Lee
Merqui Sosa
James Toney
Nigel Benn
Iran Barkley
Gerald McClellan
Joe Lipsey

And was only stopped once by Holmes on a cut.

 

Moorer was also a KO guy. And Qawi (although cruiser wasn't his thing then.. but he did really well against Holyfield.. eventually going to heavweight). Alex Stewart was on a serious KO streak. What about Rahman? Holyfield fought a lot of guys that could crack

 

Lewis's chin is often debated but he fought alot of big punchers with high KO ratios.

Mike Tyson
Frank Bruno
Gary Mason
Razor Ruddock
Lionel Butler
Ray Mercer
David Tua
Tommy Morrison
Shannon Briggs
Mike Weaver

 

This is a great ponder!

I wonder how many of the candidates for "greatest chin in history" faced more than a handful of truly elite punchers. Chuvalo for instance...sure, he fought both Frazier and Foreman (both of whom stopped him, just saying) but after that, best punchers? I guess Patterson, Quarry, and...Bonavena? Ali, Terrell, Mathis and Ellis weren't exactly ATG demolition men.

Even the man I often tout as having the strongest p4p chin of the millennium so far, Juan "Fénix" Ruiz, if we're being honest, only managed to face a bunch of middling hitters without ever going down - never a great one. The best were probably Escalante and Concepcion - both merely "pretty good".

 

Yeah, KO "artists" or just brutal punchers, Lenny faced the most... in the era of full roids.

You forgot Rahman, Vitali, Grant, Golota, McCall...

 

And Pryor..

 

Marvin Hagler:
Lee, Duran (who hit heavier at Lightweight but still), Hearns, Mugabi, Leonard..

 

At heavyweight, it has to be Holyfield or Ali.

Sugar Ray Robinson is up there too.

Ezzard Charles fought Archie Moore 3 times, fought Marciano twice, Elmer Ray, and a shot Joe Louis. The 5 fights vs arguably two top 10 all time p4p punchers in Moore and Marciano put him very high on my list.