Carnera v Impelletiere

This fight is included in that statistic. (So your question doesn't quite make sense.)

Anyway, this shows KO % doesn't equate to devastating one-punch power. A fighter can score 100% KOs with these types of wear-'em-down stoppages.

 

The simplest explanation would be that Carnera was a good but not dynamite puncher, and that he scored a lot of KOs due to being matched with a lot of weak opponents.

 

I think the implications of my point have escaped you.
Yes, you can take this KO out, but then we have to take a similarly close look at the other 76 stoppages. Like I said, in theory, a fighter can have 100% stoppages like this.
More realistically, he will have a variety of different types of stoppages.
Some fighters score plenty by wearing 'em down, some fighters score plenty on accumulation or on cuts, some just wrestle and club their way to scrappy stoppages without showing any stand-out quality punching.

69% "KOs" doesn't make a man a "big puncher". You're constructing that line and then questioning it, I don't know why.

I will say : Impelletiere showed toughness, that much can't be denied.

I can't comment as much on the Pastor fight, haven't seen it.

 

Joe Calzaghe has 70% KO rate, and I don't think he was a dynamite puncher at the top level at all.

 

Tyson Fury's KO rate is 72%
That's the same as Sonny Liston's

 

Tyson Fury's is 72% after 25 fights.
Sonny Liston after 25 fights was only 60%.

 

Real life boxing never follows this "black and white" logic.
Roberto Davila went the full 8 round distance with George Foreman.

Lineal ATG HW champ Frazier didn't last 2.

 

I think that we would have to credit Loughran with having a pretty darn good chin.

No issue there.

 

Look at the number of elite fighters that he came up against, across various weight classes.


It is ridiculous.


Sharkey was not a dynamite puncher, but he was a punishing hitter, who could capture lightning in terms of technique.


Everything to my mind, points to Loughran having an exceptional chin