Pavlik isn't an amazing puncher, he wouldn't make my own top 10. They've all got a heavy type of thud to them, but nothing that starches a guy with a single punch. He battered Taylor and Miranda half to death before the ref jumps in, even Gary "Rocket" Lockett took some punishment before deciding to call it a night.
Juanma is very close to #1. Check out the Figueroa fight on youtube. The first two punches he throws (the jabs they flicked out for the first 30 secs were only range finders) were brutal. A quick left-right and Figueroa is totally ****ing banjoed. [yt]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-Lvx9DU1XQ8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-Lvx9DU1XQ8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/yt] skip to 7:25 Interesting to see how he'd go against Vasquez though. A KO win there would probably put him top of the pile
No doubt about it. ONE guy has survived his power and that was because of what Haye did not because of his opponent. I'll never work out why Haye underperformed so much that night. He claims he was working on moves, I don't believe that. Anyway, Haye has consistently at every level demonstrated frightening power.
TBH I can't think of a better candidate for top p4p puncher, I think big vitali is going to get aid out by one of hayes bombs
Whatever your tactic you do not want to be made to look **** by an average british fighter like Elcock.