P4P Power - Your Top Ten

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  1. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Pretty simple. Who are the top ten most powerful punchers of all time, pound for pound?

    Feel free to elaborate on them, their most devestating performance and the like if you have the time.
     
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  2. radianttwilight

    radianttwilight Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I'm just going to throw a couple names out here, trying to come up with a top 10 is too difficult. These names stand out -

    Julian Jackson
    Thomas Hearns
    Naseem Hamed
    George Foreman
    Michael Spinks
    Rocky Marciano
     
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  3. Russell

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    George Foreman on a P4P list...?

    Uggggh.
     
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  4. radianttwilight

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    Foreman wasn't THAT big. In his prime, say Frazier I, he weighed 217lbs.

    P4P is all about being exceptional within your own weight class/range. Foreman was.

    Find me a 215-220lb heavyweight (I'm pretty sure he weighed in the day of the fight, too!) who punches as hard as George did and I'll take him off my list.
     
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  5. Russell

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    Shavers weighed in just a few pounds over 200 quite often in his career, in his "prime".
     
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  6. Maxmomer

    Maxmomer Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'll just throw out some names that come to mind

    Sam Langford
    Jimmy Wilde
    Rocky Marciano
    Jack Dempsey
    Naseem Hamed
    Stanley Ketchel
    Bob Fitzsimmons
    Julian Jackson
     
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  7. radianttwilight

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    We can add Shavers to the list, then, if that makes you happy. Or we can remove Foreman and place Shavers in his spot.
     
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  8. Russell

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    Hahhaa, not about making me happy there, radiant. Foreman being mentioned just made me raise an eyebrow.
     
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  9. radianttwilight

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    I understand that he's not one of the more common choices, but a 220lb man who most consider as outpunching modern 250+lb boxers must be considered a hard puncher P4P :good
     
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  10. Russell

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    Yeah, but does that stack up to Jimmy Wilde supposedly knocking out 250 pound guys when he weighed a little over a hundred?
     
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  11. radianttwilight

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    "Supposedly"?

    There's a crazy story that goes around here occaisonally that a middleweight KO'd Tim Witherspoon in sparring.

    I hesitate to believe claims like these without proof.
     
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  12. Russell

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    What, Eugene Hart knocking out Witherspoon?

    Really wouldn't doubt that one, honestly.
     
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  13. Sardu

    Sardu RIP Mr. Bun: 2007-2012 Full Member

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    Earnie Shavers, Carlos Zarate, Julian Jackson, Ruben Olivares, Alexis Arguello, Joe Louis, Thomas Hearns, Pipino Cuevas, Mike Tyson, Stanley Ketchel
     
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  14. Sardu

    Sardu RIP Mr. Bun: 2007-2012 Full Member

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    Prince Naseem Hamed was incredibly heavy handed and had amazing power too.
     
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  15. RoccoMarciano

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    I think all HWs should be excluded from these types of lists. Nothing major, but where do you go after HW?

    More a difference of opinion on what P4P really means than anything else I suppose.
     
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