can a case be made for Lewis being the hardest hitting heavyweight of all time?

Eddie Richardson, after being knocked out by Tyson, was asked if he’s ever been hit as hard as Mike hit him:
“Yeah, about a year ago. I was hit by a truck.”

Sammy Scaff, the 250-pound Kentuckian who buckled under a barrage of Tyson punches, finally succumbing to a left hook after 1:19 of the first:
'I sparred with Greg Page, and I went four rounds, with Tim Witherspoon,' said Scaff, whose nose was still bleeding half an hour after the fight, 'but I've never been hit that hard in my life.'


Buster Mathis Jr. after his bout with Mike Tyson.:
'Mike Tyson dropped me. and when I looked up, the count was on five. I said to myself, Damn, whatever happened to one to four.'


Sparring partner Corey "T-Rex" Sanders:
"I've never been in the ring with someone who hit that hard. It feels like he has bricks in both hands."

 

Louis is hereby added to the first tier.

 

Mike Weaver. A classic one-punch knockout.

 

Thanks. (Now that's good stuff!)

 

:good

 

no you have tyson liston foreman and shavers

 

How can you say with certainty that Liston, Shavers, Foreman and Tyson hit harder than Lewis? Lennox Lewis was bigger than all of those guys, and he weighed considerably more than them as well. Woud a 217 pound George Foreman have more power than a 244 pound Lennox Lewis? Maybe. I know that being physically big doesn't automatically equate with being a big puncher, but with Lewis, he was a big AND powerful guy. His straight right hand was deadly, and his uppercuts were jolting. He was able to get alot of leverage on his punches. The way Lewis KO'd Rahman was damn impressive, as Rahman was a durable heavyweight who had taken some heavy hits in his career. I'm in the minority as I think that guys like George Foreman and Earnie Shavers get too much credit for their power. It's almost as if the time to stamp your punching power into the hall of fame was back in the 70's, and any fighter that comes along after that - no matter how powerful - will never measure up! There's alot of bias!

 

Shavers is over rated as a puncher - because thats all he had - a big punch. But it never won him a World title.

Lewis does have a big shout here. He also KOed Bruno with one punch - he was finished after the left hook. But power is not always about one punch, heavy puchers often stun opponents with one shot and finish them with combinations. Lewis could be biggest puncher of all time def top 3.

 

I suppose a case can be made, but I don't think it's a good one. Lewis was a hard-hitter for sure and would be a threat to anyone, but I think there have been more than a couple other heavyweights who've more consistently shown raw knockout power than he did.

 

It almost did. Did you see Holmes-Shavers 2?

 

Almost......but not quite. Tyson or Lewis would have finished the job.

 

Neither of them could have hit Larry that hard though.

 

Peak Tyson had some difficulty finishing the job on a stale and rusty Holmes. (Over 45 seconds elapsed between the second and third knockdowns, and Larry nearly made it out of the round. If his right hand hadn't gotten caught in the ropes, he almost certainly would have.)

 

Exactly.:good

 

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