Power: Stanley Ketchel

I hope people have some good material to post here, im realy interested in this 1, i dont have any quotes personaly unforunately. The man was 1 of the very hardest punchers ever at 160 though imo

 

Great thead, ketchell is one of the most underated old timers out there! he ranks well in my top 10 middleweights of all time. p4p 160lb I would say he ranks in the top 3 hardest punchers in middleweight history. Stanley Ketchell floored a fully matured 6'2 205lb jack johnson and buzzed johnson pretty good for 5 seconds with that right hand shot. Imagine carlos monzon hitting Muhammad Ali with 1 right hand and Ali going down buzzed for 5 seconds. Ketchell knocked O'brien a durable guy out cold at the final bell....literally. Ketchel took on sam langford when no other white fighter would, and held him on even terms.


Ill find a quote on the O'brien fight

 

I think it would be a realy interesting read, i'd buy that right away.

I normaly have him top 5 at 160, but B-Hop is challenging for that now imo. I allways say that 160 has the tightest top 5 to organise

 

The guy had freaky and god given power.

The first time he put on boxing gloves at the fair he knocked his oponent out of the ring.

He demolished heavyweight Dan Porky Flyn like he was nothing.

 

ketchell unlike many old timers had good punching technique. He put his full body torque into all his punches.

 

Thanks