Louis, Ali, and Lewis who fought the most punchers?

Lewis easily. Tyson, Bruno, Tua, Morrison, Briggs, Vitali, Ruddock, Golota... really hard to top that.

 

I am inclined to say Lewis, because he fought in an era of punchers where there were verry few technicians.

Louis has a good case though:

Al Delaney

King Levinsky

Max Baer

Charlie Retzlaff

Max Schmeling

Tony Gallento

Abe Simon

Buddy Baer

Lou Nova

Tami Maurellio

Joe Walcott

Rocky Marciano



As does Ali:

LaMar Clark

Archie Moore

Henry Cooper

Sonny Liston

Floyd Patterson

Cleavland Williams

Jerry Quarry

Oscar Bonavena

Joe Frazier

Mac Foster

Ken Norton

George Foreman

Ron Lyle

Earnie Shavers

 

Lewis for modern-sized Heavyweight punchers.

 

Modern sized = trained for muscle mass rather than stamina.

We should not give Lewis too much credit for taking the blows of these big fighters, who relied on their power, and lacked imagination beyond that!

 

So, what we'll be calling on is good ol' fashion blunt force trauma. Horsepower. Heavy-duty, cast-iron, piledriving punches that will have to hurt so much they'll rattle his ancestors. Every time you hit him with a shot, it's gotta feel like he tried kissing the express train. Yeah! Let's start building some hurtin' bombs!

 

An ounce of delivery technique is worth more than a pound of power.

 

To quote an old Sammy Hagar song, this is all just mental masturbation.

 

In that case, it's a good thing the biggest punchers Lewis fought had several stones of additional power.

Most of Louis's opponents would be fighting at the 175lb limit today.

 

:deal. Shavers, Foreman and Liston are pretty hard to top but overall I think Lewis just nicks it

 

Lewis.

Even the decent punchers Lewis fought would be good punchers in Alis day and monstrous punchers in Louis' day.

 

holyfield anybody?

 

Unlike Louis with such great technicians as Baer, Galento, Simon, Levinsky and Maurelio.