Final top heavyweight punchers lists. 12, 40, and 60!

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  1. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Charles would be top 60 for me-just!
     
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  2. Mendoza

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    Three light heavies. I don't count them as heavies, and if Chalres hit has hard as you claim he should have stopped them.

    Fair points on Randoplh and Gilliam.

    I'll stand by that statement. Not particularly durable.

    We are not going to agree here. Skills t hat produce KO's via attrion is not pure power.. This is a pure power type of thread. Maher stopped plenty of guys. Willard stopped 20 guys in 26 wins. Far better than Charles. Willard's Ko over Johnson is a harder shot than anything I ever saw Charles throw, and Charles is on at least 6-7 more films. Gomez was a flawed fighter, but great puncher. Many in the 40's felt he was going to be #1 for a while, then they found out he lacked the skills and durability. At any rate Gomez right hand was a harder punch than Charles threw from what have read.

    Yet that is the comparison. Slavin at hsi best was explosive and ended soem big matches early. Slavin in his prime was not easy to stop. After he lost to Jackson he became depressed and drank too much. I did not factor in who Charles could not stop post Marciano. You should not factor in Slavin’s past his best either.

    He's bigger, stronger, killed a man, Ko'd Johnson who was better than anyone Charles Ko'd, wasn;t nearly as skilled, yet has a higher KO%, etc...

    Charles does not make the cut in any rankings as a puncher at heavyweight. He was one of the weaker punching linear champs of all time. Can you show me two historians who felt Chalres was a big time puncher at heavyweight? I've never seen anyone claim he hit harder than Willard. Charles hit Louis 100's of times, and could not floor him. If Charles had the power, Louis at his age and condition goes down, yet he did not. Charles KO% is extremely low. Perhaps the lowest of all 60 men on the list!!!! Sure Charles KO'd a few contenders. He fought a bunch of them, he had to KO some, but never the best ones. Not even Walcott. Sorry, I do not see Charles as a big puncher, which is what this list is all about.
     
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  3. OLD FOGEY

    OLD FOGEY Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    1. Of your three lightheavies, Charles in fact stopped two of them, and the third, Sarlin, was never stopped at lightheavy and lost only once, by TKO in his last fight.
    2. Charles actually stopped more guys than Maher or Slavin did, after all.
    3. "Skills that produce ko's by attrition is not pure power" Well, isn't a knockout in 100+ heat over a 37 year old man in the 26th round a ko by attrition. At what point at all did Willard show early power against anyone of substance?
    4. How can anyone be certain Willard's punch which finished off old Johnson in the 26th round was a harder punch than the rights which finished off Valentino and Layne and Ray, or the left which finished off Satterfield. If Willard had finished off Johnson early, perhaps you would have a case. But in the 26th round? after an hour and a half of fighting in 100 degree heat?
    5. Willard killed a man--so did Charles.
    6. Who are the many in the forties who thought so much of Gomez? He fought mainly in Tampa, alligatorland in those days. He blew his first fight in New York to Johnny Flynn and in his second was blown out by Walcott. I don't think top boxing experts were pumping this guy as a future champion, at least not once they got a look at him.
    7. Charles would have knocked out Louis in a finish fight. Willard just had forever to get the job done. Louis was also not easy to stop. Schmeling hit him about 75 good shots and Marciano was a top echelon puncher. Not finishing him is no great stain on Charles' escutcheon.
    8. You have a point about the low ko percentage, but most of your other candidates fought nothing like his competition. And Charles did not knock out just a few contenders, but 14 of them, and how many of the men on your list can match that. He knocked out 9 who were rated at heavyweight when he fought them. How many can match that? Not many. Cooney has none at all, for example. Firpo has four.
    My guess is Willard would have had 2 at the most if there had been ratings.
     
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