Hardest Heavyweight puncher in history (with poll)

…My uncle is Jimmy Young so I assume he could do all of the above.

 

I voted for Shavers but could easily have been Foreman or Liston.

 

Absolutely - Who did Robinson name again? lol.

 

There's colorful and artistic sportswriter hyperbole, and then there's "He hit me so hard my kinfolk felt it in Africa," "He hit me so hard he turned yesterday into tomorrow and pi$$ into gasoline," "He hit me and the floor came up!"

Popular imagination wants this to be about big, mean, menacing and surly guys with poker faces and deep, rough voices, not about somebody with a sweet southern accent, high pitched voice, nine beloved daughters, a friendly smile and a shaven head which looks like that of Curley Neale from the Harlem Globetrotters rather than anybody menacing. He didn't even have a stare. (He loved to play poker though. Old rival and friend Larry Holmes said nobody argued with him saying he'd handle the money when he stopped the discussion cold by placing his hands on it. They'd all previously gotten hit by him. BTW, before he rematched Holmes, the two of them had a friendly and joking poolside conversation with Howard Cosell, just as the friendly bald dude did with Kenny Norton before they squared off.)

We kids loved him, just like we loved Curley Neale. Neither scared us at all. We were rooting for him to beat Ali, then all complained in school the next day that he was robbed.

Next, the bell rings. Then, you get punched by loveable Curley Neal of the Harlem Globetrotters with the high pitched sweet southern accent...

 

Who was the only guy to ever knock down your uncle? (And did it 2X?)

 

Stop feeding the troll.

 

The guy's uncle is not Jimmy Young. He's just a disrespectful pos.

And Shavers wasn't the only person to knock Young down, technically Ali has a registered KD as well.

 

I could never decide between Foreman and Wladimir because I consider them both the hardest punchers ever.

 

Me actually it’s a complicated situation we are the same age… I’m not going to elaborate any further.

 

Go away mate everyone but you realises it’s a joke within like 10 seconds… suppose you’ll have to let people know I’m also not the vice president of Wakanda?

 

Wilder. Kinematic chains.

This is a physics question not a resume question.


Sometimes I wonder if y'all's mommas be asking you for a chore. Like say take out the trash, and youse be telling her all about your trash removal history instead of just yes.

Point being not everything is resume and sometimes it's really just stupid to respond with resume BS.

 

I agree that Wilder has a real good claim here. If we are talking P4P, he’s got to be the #1, and it isn’t even close.

is there anyone he didn’t drop other than Zhang, who he never really landed anything on? That’s another crazy distinction he has.

popular to hate on him here for his relative lack of skill, but the power he displayed as a 6’7” string bean was unreal.

 

I think Wlad was the hardest puncher.

 

Possibly Artie Levene?

 

This.