P4P Who's The Hardest Puncher In Boxing?

Wilder has yet to knock out any top level guys who were still in their primes. Wilder's best knockout was against a ancient Luis Ortiz. So Wilder's power is overrated.

 

Wilder doesn't have the skill to be the Tommy Hearns of the heavyweight division.

 

Joe Smith was knocked out before Beterbiev fought him, None of the last 8 opponents Beterbiev knocked out are special or known. Beterbiev is 37 years old, only has 18 bouts, so he rarely gets in the ring. When he does get in he ring he hand picks his opponents more than any current champion and that includes guys like Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury who are known for fighting hand picked opponents. Have a high KO percentage fighting hand picked opponents isn't remotely impressive.

 

It's Wilder. He weighs 215 pounds and can knock guys out 100 pounds heavier. I don't know how its possible that a chicken legged guy with horrible technique punches that hard but the guy has crazy one punch power. And if you think about that it's actually crazy that Artur Szpilka, one the biggest glass jaws ever, almost went 10 rounds with him lol.

 

Had he started sooner with the right guidance then he might have had it.

 

Best overall puncher is Inoue, any punch, either hand to head and body. But a lot of his success as a puncher is from his technique, placement, set up and timing not raw power, though obviously he has plenty of that as well.

If we're talking about pure power not placement and technique then it's Beterbiev. For me he's the most heavy handed of them all, he doesn't need to load up like some of them do, or even require a punch to land that cleanly and he decimates opponents.

 

Weird options, but I'll go for Beterbiev. Why not Edwin Valero - lightweight, 27 KOs out of 27 fights - a perfect record: no losses or draws, 100% KOs?

 

Wilder

Without a shadow of any doubt whatsoever.

 

He doesn't have the right mind frame to get the best of any trainer he has, that's pretty clear with his relationship with Breland. Having the physical tools is only half equation, the fighter has to have the mind set to absorb what he's being taught and it's pretty clear Wilder doesn't have it.

 

Well, only one of them has been outweighed by everyone they faced for the last decade (by anywhere from 20, 30, 40 60, 100 pounds) and still stopped everyone he's faced but one guy, who outweighed him by 40 pounds (yet Wilder still managed to drop four times).

It's a lot easier to stop people who weigh the same or less than you do.

Wilder's the only one on the list who has proven he can knock out men, regardless of how big they are. The others haven't been consistently outweighed for a decade and still mowed people down.

That's not fantasy, that's pound-for-pound proof.

 

He wasn't one of the biggest glass jawed fighters ever until he was knocked out so bad by Wilder he had to be carried out of the ring on a stretcher. You never see heavyweights leaving the ring on a stretcher. Most fighters who leave the ring on a stretcher (after being out cold for minutes) and are rushed to the hospital don't even return to boxing.

If it was the "old days" when they just drug guys back to the corner ... and not taken such good care of him with the oxygen, the paramedics and hospital care ... Artur may have ended up like Ernie Schaaf and those dudes.

Even still, Szpilka was out for a year and he couldn't take much of a shot after that.

Some beatings you never fully recover from.

 

Right. But the range of the heavyweight division is ridiculously wide these days. Not a couple pounds, like those other divisions.

And even big punchers who outweigh opponents at heavyweight haven't knocked out everyone they faced like Wilder did, until he ran into Fury.

George Foreman wasn't outweighed by everyone he faced for a decade. Sonny LIston wasn't outweighed by everyone he fought for a decade. They were usually the heavier men. And they still couldn't stop a lot of the smaller guys they fought.

Wilder hasn't outweighed anyone he fought for the last 10 years.

He has punching power you rarely ever see.

 

I cant see why people would say Wilder. He landed his best shots and couldnt KO Fury who doesnt have the best chin.