Most Combined Firepower In A Fight

Sugar Ray Robinson vs George Costner.

Costner had a poor chin but he had offensive firepower.

 

Bob Foster vs Frankie DePaula should be mentioned.

 

George Foreman and Ron Lyle...

 

WOW. Nobody said Tyson-Ruddock??? Ruddock on a 10 fight knockout streak and confidence levels were high, repeat, confidence levels were high thinking Tyson ducked him in '89.

That first round was something else. The fight ended up dragging a bit compared to the others mentioned but damn, what a fireshow!

 

Joe Louis - Max Baer
Sonny Liston - Cleveland Williams

 

Are we talking pure numbers?

Joe Louis(66-2 with 52 knockouts) vs Rocky Marciano 37-0(33ko)


Total: 103-2 with 85 knockouts


WOW

 

Jackson and the G Man have already been mentioned so.
Arguello v Olivares
Kane v Patterson
Shavers v Lyle
Louis v Baer
Dempsey v Firpo
Liston v Williams
Langford v Hague
Langford v Smith
Robinson v Levine
Robinson v Graziano
Steele v Hostak
Olivares v Lopez
Olivares v Chacon

I would add Langford v Walcott , but I don't think Sam was knocking them over regularly at that stage of his career.

 

Olivares-Pimentel combined 143-7-1 with 132 KO's

 

Ouch.

 

This is the one that came straight to mind for me - plus this one for me is the highest ranking pairing of heavyweight greats in one fight ever for me

 

langford-ketchel
hagler-hearns

 

Superb pick, I assumed it would've already been mentioned.

I just really wish the original "Cold War" Tyson-Ruddock had happened in Canada in late '89...
http://www.antekprizering.com/tysonhandtape.html

I strongly believe it would've woken-up Tyson to needing a proper trainer, & so Richie Giachetti would've been hired earlier (before the Douglas fight). Facing Donovan in '89 with less conditioning against Razor than he had against him in '91 (albeit still vastly superior to his horrendous condition against Douglas... Imagine the shape he was in for Bruno I), an incompetent corner offering terrible advice, & significantly less bodypunching (Giatchetti needed to constantly remind Mike to work the body, but Snowell & Bright were useless at this.), plus the way Ruddock used his ramrod jab & lateral dancing footwork back in '89... all these factors would accumulate to mean Tyson-Ruddock in '89 would be a lot harder for Mike than Tyson-Ruddock II was in '91. Therefore, he hires a serious trainer afterwards (Richie, because King won't allow nice guy Floyd Patterson, & Tyson's mind had been totally poisoned towards Rooney), then fights Buster with supreme physical & mental conditioning, aswell as a brutal consistent body barrage of bombs, some glimpses of very nice headmovement, good use of his shotgun jab, & his dynamite straight righthand thrown more frequently ever before (Richie must've loved that punch, & what a beauty it was from Mike). Anyway in conclusion, fighting Razor in '89 would've lead to Douglas being smoked.

 

Jackson v G-Man

 

This was reportedly a stick and move performance by Langford as the taller man, an element of Sam we haven't gotten to see in extant footage. But it's certainly a factor that must be integrated into considerations of his greatness that he could box like this at the lighter weights against an ATG, able to adapt to whatever the physical realities of the situation at hand were.

The 6'6-1/2" Fulton appears to have been a bridge too far though for an aging Langford, coping with a reach and height disadvantage of over a foot. Fred had a glass jaw, but one had to be able to reach it first. However, Fulton-Langford might still be a candidate for this thread.

 

:dealGreat examples!