P4P who hits harder Wilder or Hearns?

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  1. BoxingViewer

    BoxingViewer Active Member Full Member

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    I say Hearns based on resume alone, thoughts?
     
  2. bjl12

    bjl12 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hearn. Few people destroyed tomato cans as easily as Wilder and GGG but they had little success once they stopped fighting can drivers and started fighting full-time boxers...especially Wilder whose done **** all in his career
     
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  3. Terror

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    Hearns, as the entire concept of pound-for-pound was invented to recontextualize boxing against the heavyweight class. That being said if they met at Cruiserweight (as they conceivably could have at some point, probably) Wilder would decapitate him.
     
  4. BoxingViewer

    BoxingViewer Active Member Full Member

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    Shrink him down to 6 foot 2 and it would be like watching Tommy Hearns v Marsellos Wilder
     
  5. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    Wilder is wierdo

    Hearn was powerfull but not a wierdo

    If he fights Ruiz Jr next and turns him into a snorlax then we know for sure.
     
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  6. BoxingViewer

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    Haha "Snorlax" I see what you did there
     
  7. Terror

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    Wilder could have cut to 200 lbs at his current height in the past, probably still could.
     
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  10. Redbeard7

    Redbeard7 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    In 46 fights Wilder has failed to stop: Stiverne 1 (24-1-1) and Fury x3 but he was the first man to KD Stiverne and dropped Fury four times. 23 of Wilder's opponents outweighed him by 20+ lbs. 91% KO ratio.

    In 67 fights Hearns failed to stop: Alfonso Hayman (20-15-5), Mike Colbert (29-3-1), Ray Leonard 1 (30-1), Ernie Singletary (24-3), Wilfred Benitez (44-1-1), Murray Sutherland (38-9-1), Luigi Minchillo (43-2), Marvin Hagler (60-2-2), Doug DeWitt (27-3-3), Iran Barkley 1 (24-4), James Kinchen (44-4-2), Ray Leonard 2 (35-1), Michael Olajide (27-3), Virgil Hill (30-0), Iran Barkley 2 (28-7), Freddie Delgado (19-2-1), Earl Butler (14-7-2), Nate Miller (30-6) and Uriah Grant (27-14). Only 6 of Hearns' 19 non-stoppage fights were contested at LHW or cruiser. Five opponents outweighed Hearns by 5.5-6 lbs and he stopped two of them. 72% KO ratio.

    Power increases overproportionately through the weight classes, which is why we see more one punch KO's at heavyweight.
     
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  11. Smokin Bert

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  12. Toney F*** U

    Toney F*** U Boxing junkie Full Member

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    I don’t think anyone has a stronger right hand than Wilder tbh.