Fighters Who Could Punch But Had Low...

Excellent choice.

 

The wikipedia entry on the ring top 100 has been tampered with as it now shows Jackson at no.1 and he was ridiculously low on the genuine list.

Kid Gavilan is one who springs to mind. Although he was no destroyer, the misconception of Sweet Pea as a 'feather fist' has always irked me as he was quite a hurtful puncher and some of his stoppages were absolutely brutal.

Not a 'big puncher' by any means, but that's always annoyed me.

 

lew tendler
toney oakey
joel casamayor
glen johnson
reggie johnson
Mark johnson

 

How could I be so stupid...wikipedia is so full of **** all of the time..I should have looked at a copy of the list elsewhere. And I should have never listened to that guy, I just thought this fighter is one of the many obscure ones I know very little about and took his word for it.

Come to think of it..that bloke who said Sekorski was an alltime puncher is from Chicago and was always a big fan of Golota..crazy polacks.

 

The list was done in a pound for pound sense. Overall it was a nice issue, as each fighter had an in-depth bio. Read it sometime.

The list however is not without bad calls. Fulton at #98. Bad call. If you are talking punchers Tommy Morrison would belong.

 

i would say Pernell Whittaker he had decent power just not world class knock out power although did he not knock out tough louie lomeli in 1

 

One well known example is Jimmy McLarnin, who was recognized as one of the hardest punchers in boxing, even with only 21 stoppage wins in 68 bouts. Like a lot of hard punchers, his hands couldn't stand up under the impact of repeated hard blows, gutting his knockout percentage.

Tommy Loughran was another who started out with considerable natural power, but again, brittle hands necessitated a conversion to boxing stylist.

Even Joey Archer had a decent right hand, when he chose to use it for offensive purposes. If you want a genuinely featherfisted boxer, you can have Maxie Rosenbloom.

Nicolino Locche was really beating the **** out of Paul Fuji, especially with his hook to the liver and those right uppercuts to the head at the end. People like Locche (and Willie Pastrano) have a low knockout percentage by choice. It's always been my understanding that Pep could punch much harder than his KO percentage suggests.

It might be more apropos to ask who was simply not capable of punching powerfully with gloved fists. Along with Rosenbloom, Vito Antuofermo might be a good example. (Don't try Vito in a streetfight though. He was decking drunk hooligans at ringside during the brawl following Hagler-Minter.)

 

Jack Sharkey could hit a bit harder than his under 24% record suggests.

 

Good shout-out. The hook he floored Carnera with in their first match was a bomb, probably the best shot he delivered on film (including the rights he leveled Tommy Loughran and Jimmy Maloney with). Many of the potential names for this list carried most of their power in one hand, but Sharkey could be dangerous from both sides.

 

Freddie Steele is a glaring omission from this list, you can add Henry Hank as well.

 

Steele is a good call RB, he could crack a bit. :good

 

Indeed, the man was a frightening puncher, his demolition of Vince Dundee remains one of the most vicious and one-sided beatings I have ever seen.

 

Very quick handed with it, wasn't he?

 

Oh yes, I especially love the way he leaps in with that left hook of his, so fast and deadly accurate and with enough torque behind it to knock over a brick wall. Him and Eduardo Lausse would have made for a heck of a fight while it lasts, two of the hardest hitting left hookers ever at 160 going at it. Speaking of Lausse he should be ranked higher on that list, for pure punching power the man ranks right up there with the best of them.