Harder punncher for a 12 round fight? Gerald Mcclean, Kell Pavlik or Thoma Hearns? at 160 lbs and what I mean is who could hit the hardest for a 12 round fight?
How about we restrict input to only posters that have gone 12 rounds with all three so we get valid input? If that doesn't work I suggest we insist on a minimum of having gone 12 rounds with at least two of them and maybe we can triangulate?
Just having a bit of fun and a good thread if people don't get carried away as if they really know the answer and makes the whole thing degenerate. It really is hard to compare across generations sometimes though. At least at MW you have a limiting factor, unlike heavy where guys are simply getting bigger.
hard to rate any of them. I would pick Gerald at 160, all time Hearns.. Pavlik has good power, but more when he catches a guy during a brawl.. He does not set up many punches as much as wait for guys to run into them. Hearns set up most of his knockouts.
Well, what makes it harder is that even in brawl mode it seems to me Pavlik is still a bit reserved. He is slower than some of the top guys so he can't afford to get out of position because of recovery time. TFFP once commented that he saw a clip of Kelly doing some bag work and thought he looked faster doing that than he was in the ring. I really do think that his defense slows down his offense. Make sense?
At 160 McClellan was the hardest puncher. Hearns was a better hitter at 154lbs but went the distance at 160 with the likes of Singletary, Sutherland and Minchillo. He scored some good KO's but McClellan practically killed people in that weight class. Pavlik shouldn't even be in the conversation.
Impossible to judge McLellan because his career consisted of early stoppages and the only time he did go past 8 was the tragic loss to Nigel Benn.
