Britain's biggest ever puncher?

Ruiz is a tough guy.

 

Very tough, but the Ruiz Haye fought already had one foot in retirement.

 

Haye or naz

 

erm P4P ..theres only one winner ! Jimmy 'the mighty atom' Wilde ...100Kos on his record... in ten years pro boxing this guy had 148 fights... unbelievable ! ..nowadays they struggle to fight once a year !

 

P4P probably Naz for me. Not P4P I reckon Bruno. I think his right hand was a bigger punch than Lennox's

 

Naz P4P. That little chap had such heavy hands. Never seen such a small man drop people with heavyweight style.

 

Haye, Naz, Benn, Lennox

 

From the footage I've seen, not quite the puncher he was supposed to be, although all research points to him being a destroyer.

I'd rate Fitz above him, if I counted him as British

Naz I'd go for, footage and opposition based.

 

Why not? Athletes are faster and stronger now than they ever have been (compare 100M records and strong man records). Stands to reason that boxers these days punch harder than ever before too.

 

I don't mean to sound disrespectful but some of guys he will have beat in the early 1900s wouldn't be much better than the blokes you would find down your local boozer on a Saturday night and they wouldn't even be allowed nowhere near a ring these days.

I once watched a Boxing documentary (the one where Henry Cooper was the presenter) and it said Jimmy Wilde had a lot of his fights in fairground booths, will they have counted on his record??

EDT: I think Reg Gutteridge was the narrator on the documentary, it came as two videos and I bought it from WH Smith lol.

 

John Prescott

 

Yeah, what with the small gloves and 15 round fights they have nowadays?!? Boxing doesn't work like that.

HH, Wildes resume is hard to analyse; it's hard to find experts of early 20th century Flyweights, but there is some real substance on his resume I can assure you. Not all of it, but then, who fights an elite-level fighter in every matchup? No one.

 

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