Heavyweight Champions That Have 50 Or More Career KO's

I know we have discussed this before and the list is not very long it is a very small club. I think Baer, Louis, and Foreman are on there. Who else?

 

Charley Burley

 

Carnera had 72 KO's
Dempsey had 51 KO's

 

I can think of seven linear heavyweight champions, off the top of my head, who had 50 plus knockouts on their records:

Baer
Carnera
Charles
Dempsey
Fitzsimmons
Foreman
Louis

I imagine Sullivan would join them if we had his complete record available and confirmed.

Tunney is close. If we find a few more fights for his record, he might make it.

 

Even outside the ranks of lineal champions, a preliminary examination reveals that this is not as long a list for heavyweights as one might expect. Galento (57), Williams (58), Chuvalo (64), Shavers (68), Retzlaff (52), Fulton (70), Wills (54), Langford (127), Godfrey (78), Gains (60), Brennan (64).

Charles and Fitz got many of their KO wins against non heavyweights. The validity of Carnera's knockout percentage has always been questioned.

 

Wlad is two Ko's away from 50 Ko's. These days that's a lot.

 

Dempsey and Louis should be on there.

 

Jack Dempsey scored 51 KOs

Ezzard Charles- 54 wins by KO in his 96 wins... the most wins by any HW champ btw. Charles is also the only HW champ who went undefeated as an amateur (42-0).

Primo Carnera went 88-14 (72)

Wladimir Klitschko has 48 so far

Gene Tunney scored 48

Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, and James Toney all have 44

Ernie Shavers was never a World Champ but he did score 68 KOs

 

Is the question heavyweight champions ?

I'd have a huge asterik next to Carnera.