Hardest Heavyweight Punchers (Today)

1. Wlad 2. Povetkin 3. Joshua

 

Wilder has good power but it's somewhat unproven because he's fought so many stiffs

 

You think Povetkin hits harder than Joshua? I definitely think Wlad hits harder than HGH gutt, but Povetkin??

I do think Alexander is a very good puncher. Maybe in the same class as Ortiz

 

Joshua hits hard but is more of an accumulation puncher imo. Povetkin has displayed very impressive knockout power against a greater number of hard chinned world level operators. Sasha would have knocked out Malik Scott easily which Ortiz failed to do.

 

Wlad Klitschko & AJ for me. Power and precision. Wilder is hard to gauge since he fights Boxrec #50 guys and windmills so badly that his accuracy suffers greatly -- which is enough to KO a 2nd or 3rd rate fighter but not a top 10 guy.

 

Wlad's power's diminished a bit over the years. He's lost a lot of the snap he once had, and which gave him such fearsome results when he landed. He's still heavy handed by virtue of his sheer size and the textbook technique he's honed over the years, but I'd say there are harder punchers in the division at present, namely Ortiz, Wilder and Joshua.

Browne's power gets a bit overlooked because he's so crude in other areas, but he's clearly very heavy handed. No one hurt Chagaev like that before, and Browne was losing badly on the cards at the time. It was literally that one punch that turned the whole tide of the fight.

Parker's power is a bit of a question mark to me. He looks like he hits like a ton of bricks, but his opponents don't seem to react in the way that you'd expect when getting hit by that sort of firepower. Not sure what to make of it, really.

 

He knocked Scott down about four or five times and had him running laps round the ring. He also stopped Allen, a man known for having a rock solid beard. How is that not being able to put a dent in someone?

 

Well neither did Foreman and he's universally regarded as one of the heaviest punchers in existence.

 

It's not really the windmills that do the damage though, more so than the straight rights down the pipe (which Wilder actually throws with pretty textbook technique). Those were the shots he hurt Stiverne with and which knocked out Szpilka. A short chopping right was also responsible for downing Washington. I can't remember which shots KOed Molina or set up the Duhaupas stoppage, but I don't think they were especially wild ones.