Moses Itauma names his hardest hitting heavyweight....EVER, and more!

That is actually a very impressive list of names I'm impressed with the Dokes mention it means he definitely knows his stuff.

I don't really disagree with any of the names he listed in those categories.

 

Its interesting how Michael Dokes gets a lot of respect on here but people heavily criticise Riddick Bowe for fighting him.

 

A peak Dokes Vs Bowes makes for an interesting fight.

 

I don’t think it would have lasted much longer. Riddick Bowe was always a good few levels above Dokes.

 

I actually don’t really agree with any of these picks aside from hardest puncher but they’re not bad shouts by any means. Just not necessarily the first to come to mind.

 

Dokes won the championship in 1982 and Bowe fought a faded version over a decade later in 1993 that's why.

Bowe is hardly going to get the same credit as if he beat a prime Dokes of the early 1980s.

 

Because he had just thrown a world title in the trash to face a has been rather than by far the best challenger in the world.

 

In fairness he’s only around 21 years old

 

Bowe fought the corpse of Michael Dokes. Dokes was nowhere near prime. He neither earned, nor deserved that title shot.

 

Hardest puncher - George Foreman
Fastest - Michael Dokes
Heart -This is difficult to assess objectively, and so Frazier (maybe Holyfield, but if someone had bitten Frazier's ear twice...)
Chin - Muhammad Ali (Among ATG, otherwise they would have entered the combination of McCall and Chuvalo)
Stamina - Evander Holyfield
Ring IQ - Muhammad Ali

 

Dokes wasn't a bad fighter at all in his hey day.
Bowe was good, but remember how Tony Tubbs showed him up a bit.
And Tubbs was well past best then.

 

Much better than Itauma's picks imo
I'd go.
Hardest puncher - Shavers
Fastest - Patterson (in terms of hand speed at least)
Heart - Frazier
Chin - McCall (though if the criteria is only ATGs, I'd go with Ali, though Foreman wouldn't be a bad shout)
Stamina - Frazier or Marciano. Holyfield never went 15 at heavy and never showed the same relentless pace as the former two.
Ring IQ - Ali

 

His team has really brought him along with the PR/media training. He used to do youtube interviews where he was clearly high on weed.

 

I might be more interested in his opinions in a decade of so.

I presume these picks are limited to heavyweight?