Hard punchers with decent to low KO percentages

Bob Satterfield is the textbook case.

 

I was gonna answer this thread with Ike Williams. People seem to think he was this mini Louis, this one punch knockout artist, despite the fact that his most famous footage shows him detonating about 40 full power bombs on a defenseless opponent who stays on his feet throughout all of it. He also didn't knock his opponent out in even half of his wins, but that's just as much a result of his style. He was a boxer first and foremost. Good puncher. Not one of the greatest. Not as far as pure power is concerned, anyway.

 

Curtis Sheppard

 

Ezzard Charles.

He's KOed three ATGs: Archie Moore, Lloyd Marshall and Jimmy Bivins. He also 'almost KOed' granite chinned Charley Burley. He KOed top contenders like Anton Christoforidis, Oakland Billy Smith and Jose Basora. At HW he stopped the likes of Ray, Layne, Valentino and Barone.

Comparing that to Moore, he stopped Marshall quicker (twice), he also stopped Bivins and Smith quicker. He only needed one punch to ice Satterfield, Moore needed loads.

He's made a man go blind and killed a man. His KOs over Reynolds and Satterfield are two of the cleanest one punch KOs ever.

All that, but only a 43% KO rate, since he fought a lot at HW, fought on wayyyyy too long and ultimately didn't really fight with all-out aggression and fought some of the best competition ever. I think he was just as dangerous as Moore or Foster when he sat down on his shots. And even if he wasn't, he hit harder enough to stop 95% of all light-heavyweights anyway.

 

Terry Norris

 

Dick Tiger, Gene Fullmer, and Carmen Basilio were all powerful hitters but often won by decision. Ron Lyle could also certainly fit into this category.

 

I was also gonna say Ron Lyle, also Sonny Liston

 

Genaro Hernandez punched very hard but had very bad hands.

 

They say Bob Baker was able to bang before his hand problems. Record kind of shows it too.

 

I wouldn't say Liston, although he could win a decision. Patterson and Quarry were also very capable of winning on points.

 

Kid Gavilan was not feather fisted

 

Eubank Sr

 

Laszlo Papp, Chris Eubank

 

certainly not and he had plenty of knockouts