Hardest hitting heavyweight by results

Ali, and I don’t think it’s particularly close.

1) Foreman
2) Liston 1
3) Patterson 1
4) Frazier 3
5) Liston 2

 

You've got to be joking

Foreman punched himself out in the heat of Zaire.
Liston tore his shoulder in 64 and had to quit due to injury. He took a dive in the second fight.
Patterson had an injured sacroiliac joint.
Frazier's camp threw the towel, Ali didn't KO him. And Ali was about to quit himself.

Ali was a featherfist, for ****s sake.

 

Fair enough, I was including retirements as knockouts. It might well be different if we only include KO and TKO wins, I’ll have another look later. This would exclude the wins over Liston (1) and Frazier (3).

I suspect the answer would still be Ali, with the closest contender being Marciano.

The win over Foreman was a victory over a monster champion who had never been beaten. Ali hit him in the head, knocked him down, and the referee stopped it. If we aren’t including that as a knockout win then I’m not sure what definition we are using.

 

While he wasn't that powerful, he certainly wasn't featherfisted.

 

Looking at the results I think it would be Joe Louis.
The Brown Bomber knocked out: Primo Carnera, Max Baer, Jack Sharkey, Jim Braddock, Max Schmeling, Jersey Joe Walcott, Billy Conn x2, John Henry Lewis...
And he did all that in a period of 13 years.

 

Ali could put a lot of hurt on his opponent. I don't think any of them said he was featherfisted. He was a very big man but blessed with light feet and ridiculous speed which allowed him to engage and disengage at will rather than have to sit down on his shots.

He quite rightfully takes this one.

 

Retirements are not KOs.

Nope. Ali was never a big puncher.

While the win in itself is impressive, the KO was not, it was simply due to Foreman punching himself out, not to Ali being a big puncher.

 

The "hurt" was the result of an accumulation of punches that Ali landed, not due to him being a big hitter/puncher.

No he doesn't.

 

If you look at Marciano's top 5 he ironed them out good and proper

1.Wallcott
2. Charles II
3. Joe Louis
4. Harry Mathews
5. LaStarza II

 

Boxrec counts retirements as KOs, so it’s certainly at least arguable that they are.

I’m pretty sure that when Boxers are introduced in the ring and are described as having X number of wins including Y wins by knockout, Y includes retirements. I’m happy to be proven wrong on this if I’m mistaken.

 

George Foreman

1. Joe Frazier
2. Ken Norton
3. Michael Moorer
4. George Chuvalo
5. Ron Lyle.
Note: most of these were stoppages not KO’s but if stoppages still count then I vote for George