My 20 Greatest Composite Punchers, All Time

1 - Joe Louis
2 - Sam Langford
3 - Mike Tyson
4 - Bob Fitzimmons
5 - Sugar Ray Robinson
6 - Bob Foster
7 - Sandy Saddler
8 - Archie Moore
9 - Sonny Liston
10 - Jack Dempsey
11- Stanley Ketchel
12-Jimmy Wilde
13-Thomas Hearns
14-Alexis Arguello
15-Rocky Marciano
16-Ruben Olivares
17-Charley Burley
18-Roy Jones Junior
19-Henry Armstrong
20-Julian Jackson

 

Holmes' Jab - Cheers, Hearns was higher on my punchers list last time I did one, it's reasonable to have him higher but that could be said for many of the guys around him.

Griffo, Composite is sort of like "all in", so Shavers might be the best HW puncher when stood in front of a fair ground attraction that measures power of delivery, but Dempsey buries him for affective punching in terms of timing, angles, speed, combination punching etc etc etc.

Jackson actually made my list this time, at 20 - but i'd forgotten Wilde. So your man is at 21, which i'm guessing is to low for you?

 

Used punching to make it almost impossible for a fighter to stand in front of him - it is true that Dick also rellied heavily upon durability for this to be the case, but to be absolutley clear, I pick Tiger to beat every single fighter at MW who would stand with him, including Greb and anyone else you care to mention.

You MUST run from Tiger to beat him because of his punching ability.

I will admit he is a contriversial choice given my criteria.

 

Throw one together, be interesting to see.

Prince Naseem is a good shout - I will admit I failed to consider him.

 

Burley had a greater than 50% KO rating despite the fact he went in against some pretty unknockoutable fighters such as Williams and Coco Kid. He stopped HW's as well as MW's and the man was a welter.

He belongs on this list, possibly higher.

 

It's a belting short notice list.

And actually, I think that there should be plenty of HW's on a punchers list (everyone in my top 5 fought at HW at some time or another). Great HW's will tend to have the power end of things sorted, so if they have a good dose of the rest - delivery, speed, arsenal, whatever it may be - they are worthy of consideration.