For your money who was the pfp strongest boxer ever?

Jeff Fenech before i think further.

 

Bob Fitzsimmons has to rank fairly highly up there.

 

The strongest man whoever boxed ? I would say Paul Anderson.

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Strong guys who were boxers.
Turpin
Griffith
Darcy
Tiger
Fullmer

 

Laszlo Papp

 

Khaosai Galaxy. For a guy just a shade over triple digits in weight, he was built like a freakin' tank.

 

Well apparently AJ can lift a van, so it'd have to be him.

 

I have no idea how to measure a boxer's strength accurately, yet alone how to compare it to that of other guys at other weight classes in other periods. It's way, way harder than punching power. The maulers and pressure fighters who have the most physical and aggressive styles are almost always going to seem stronger than back-foot fighters and guys who don't try to work inside.

 

Yeah, and I'd add that although there is obviously some loose correlation between strength and punching power, it seems safe to say they're clearly not coextensive. Some guys appear to be quite strong but don't hit that hard (eg. Ali, Carnera) some guys hit hard but tend to get manhandled in clinches (Tyson) and some guys appear to be very strong and hit very hard (Foreman, Lewis).

 

Mustafa Hamsho

 

Yeah, there is probably a very weak correlation between strength and power at the professional level.

Seemed to me like Tyson mostly got handled in clinches through lack of effort and/or know-how.

 

Mike White or George Chuvalo

 

We can perceive it all right but I think our perceptions of even boxing-specific strength are highly unreliable. Much of what people perceive as even boxing specific strength is really a function of other things, imo: fighting style, roughness, aggressiveness, inside punching and defensive skills, etc. A lot of the guys who've been listed in this thread mostly just make way more of an effort to apply rough pressure and throw their weight around.