P 4 P Who Is The Greatest Pure Puncher Ever?

I am not really that big a foster fan, compared to most, but that isnt actually true.

He KOd about 10 heavyweights. His biggest problem was that when he hit his prime and was at his destructive best, the two heavyweights he beat happened to be Muhammed Ali and Joe Frazier. Both were all time greats and both needed more than a big punch to fold. Foster simply wasnt in their class. Actually, several other heavys, when he was younger also showed they were simply better fighters. It wasnt a total lack of power though that cost foster those fights. He was just beaten by better fighters on the night.

 

my understanding was that he weighed about 30 pounds more but very good quote

 

to be fair though, he was beaten by almost every decent heavy he ever fought, not just ali and frazier. **** he even stun frazier a touch in the 2nd round. doug jones, zora folley, and ernie terrell all knocked him out as well. he just didn't have a heavyweight frame and his punch may have been able to do some good if he could take it as well as he could dish it out at 200 pounds or so.

 

Personally, i think he didnt have a heavyweight chin, that was more important. He did beat some decent heavyweights, but i agree that he lost to the best he fought. Interestingly, Doug Jones was virtually a light heavyweight. I tend to think that Folley and Terrell was pre prime and that he ended up improving a lot as a fighter after these fights.

 

Besides my avatar,
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Fitzsimmons
Jackson
Hearns
Foreman
Tyson
Marciano

to name just a few

 

i can agree with this and you're bang on about the chin. jones and folley were skilled but jones was hardly a knockout artist but had him all over the place. considering he fought as a middleweight in the amateurs a few years before, fighting any legitimate heavyweight that early in his career was poor planning

 

2 good ones for there lbs

 

Jackson was a killer but he did not really venture up in weight to test the concentration of that TNT.

Hearn's could knock you stupid but when he did go up in weight his power declined.

Foreman, Shavers, Tyson, Tua; these guys could dent a wall but they were heavyweights and thus remain harder to quantify.

Two fighters who really stand out are Bob Fitzsimmons and Jimmy Wilde.

Fitzsimmons was a natural middleweight who grew no more than into today’s super-middleweight poundage and yet he blasted durable heavyweights. No grinding down, just demolition counters that you can read about in the papers of the time.

Jimmy Wilde was not even a natural flyweight, fought lightweights and still carried with him an incredibly consistent KO ratio; quite something when you consider the power difference in the lower weights.

The true test of power must come down to significant weight gaps be breached with concussive results.