Best in heavyweight history per category

Right Shavers, Louis,Foreman
Hook Tua,Dempsey
Jab Holmes,Ali,Liston ,Louis
Uppercut Johnson, Holmes
Combinations Louis
Body Puncher Frazier.Marciano
Endurance Jeannette
Handspeed Patterson,Ali,Tyson
Feet Ali
Chin McCall ,Cobb
Durability.Ali
Generalship Ali,Johnson

 

I'll throw in Corbett for fastest feet, Fitzsimmons for body punching, and Jeffries for durability.

 

Get rid of tua. Who did he really ko? Hooks-Dempsey Jeffries Fitz Louis Liston Frazier Tyson proven kos over ranked fighters. Weaver

 

Tyson's left hook was as good as anyone's. He scored many of his famous KOs with left hooks.

 

Uppercut; Foreman. Both hands. Other guys had 1 hand, not George.

Left hook; Joe Louis. Not telegraphed and deadly. Liston is honorable mention---unlike ali/holmes/lewis he had a great left hook off the jab.

body puncher---Norton & then Frazier, then Rocky.

Best thinker---Ali of course. then Vitali. Third would be Holmes or perhaps Lennox.

 

Good choices!

 

What does "best" in this case mean? Hardest? Most proven? Most technically well applied?

 

Ruiz? Moorer? Rahman? Maskaev? Pretty sure they were all ranked.

 

I wouldn't put Shavers on the list then.

 

Perhaps by the Whetabix Boxing Organisation, but not by Ring Magazine.

 

Holyfield best Counter puncher at heavy
And tied for combinations with Louis imo.

Tyson's overhand/ straight right is underrated, should be above foremans and shaver's(who had a dangerous right hand but who did he actually knock out with it? Norton KO was an uppercut and Norton lost against all the dangerous Punchers he fought so it wasn't really because shavers right hand was so great, it was just his power in general and how Norton reacted to it by freezing.)

Foremans uppercut was better than Tyson's. he landed it more often because he interestingly enough had no problem landing it from the outside, probably because of his height and strength. Tyson needed his opponent against the ropes or bending over from body punishment to land the uppercut.

 

Pretty sure he knocked out more than a few Ring ranked fighters as well. I'd need to trawl back through the rankings though, and I can't really be bothered just to prove a pretty obvious point.

 

As far as I am aware, Rahman was the only one, and that was far from convincing.