Fighters Who Are Big/Very Hard Punchers, But Don't Get A Lot Of KOs...???

Lee Selby
Jake LaMotta

Never thought I'd mention those two in the same post lol.

 

Haha, I don't know, I mean, so much boils down to quality of opposition, e.g. Lennox was IMO probably a top 10 ATG for power, but his KO percentage [32 from 44 fights, 73%] is lower than that of say Charles Martin [25 from 31 fights, 81%].

I suppose my nomination amongst current fighters, betraying my personal prejudices a bit since we're from a similar area, is Josh Warrington, don't get me wrong the guy's never going to be a 'knockout artist', but isn't IMO by any means feather-fisted either, he has decent power IMO, his KO record of 7 from 30 fights [23%] is low for his weight class and does his power a bit of a disservice IMO.

 

Bellew hits harder than what his KO% gives him credit for.

 

Kendall Holt was the king of this category. Sergey Kuzmin.

 

Darnell Boone

 

Donaire sticks out to me.

 

Yep, he stopped Stevenson too. I'd be confident in checking the records that he probably dropped some of the other legit guys he fought too

 

edit: already mentioned

Maravilla Martinez

 

Are you looking for active fighters?

From the past, definitely Ali. If you just looked at his record and saw he stopped some of the biggest punchers in the game:

George Foreman
Joe Frazier
Sonny Liston (twice)
Cleveland Williams
Archie Moore
Floyd Patterson (twice)
Jerry Quarry (twice)
Jimmy Ellis
Ron Lyle
Oscar Bonavena
Henry Cooper (twice)
Zora Folley
Bob Foster

You'd think he was one of the biggest bangers in boxing history. And if Ali looked like Anthony Joshua, people might think he was.

But he only stopped 60 percent of his opponents. Yet he managed to outslug some of the best punchers over two decades.

 

ivan baranchyk
brandon rios
ruslan provodnikov

 

Donaire
Gassiev
Povetkin
Maybe Thurman

 

wins thread.

 

Interesting to bring up Ruslan. He hit like a stone baseball being thrown by a professional MLB pitcher. Anyone who stood in front of him or got tagged clean got their faces lumped up as though they'd been jumped. Tim Bradley did not hesitate to state Ruslan hit harder than Pacquiao.

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