GGG JCC 1st career Vitali Hagler 2nd career Vitali GGG clear no1., not much to choose between the others, imo.
all great finishers but won mostly by an accumulation of punches, while they clearly all hit hard non were one punch ko punchers so it is hard to rank, i'd go GGG JCC klitchko hagler but i wouldn't argue if you had the exact opposite order
Yeah, and this is the reason why I put these fighters together - because none of them possessed lethal one-punch power like, say, Hearns, Hamed or Wlad. Also, interesting fact is that all of them had GREAT punch resistance and most of one-punch guys didn't possess great chins
I know what you mean & agree that GGG was a heavy handed puncher rather having the sort of "snap" to his punches that lights out, 1-punch KO artists, such Julian Jackson and Deontay Wilder possess, but I still think he had genuine 1-punch power, though I agree not to the extent of the likes of Hearns or Hamed. Off the top of my head, he scored 1-punch 10-count KO's over Macklin & Rubio. Dominic Wade was a split second from taking a 10-count from 1-punch for the first KD in the second round, before a further single punch put Wade down for the 10-count later in the round. Geale (who tbf had been dropped & hurt earlier in the fight) was dropped by a single right, rose on unsteady legs and was stopped on his feet. Stevens not only got up from the left hook that dropped him in the 2nd round, but carried on for several rounds more, but you could tell the from impact the punch had on him, that it had been thrown from a fighter with more 1-punch power than a JCC, Vitali or Hagler, from a p4p perspective.
GGG Chavez Hagler Vitali Hard time between #1 and #2 but I feel pretty certain that Vitali is the p4p worst puncher on the list considering he regularly output a ton of punches and guys were able to withstand (albeit at a huge cost). Hagler is more powerful, but when he was knocking people out a lot of the time they felt doomed to me from the start of the fight or at least for a few rounds before the inevitable. Chavez and GGG regularly changed fights with their power, but GGG moreso in my opinion with regards to precision power punching.
Depends what weight for JCC Vitali is last GGG and Hagler very close even thought Hagler played Boxer-Puncher more ...
I agree with this order. Hagler was a bit crisper and more authoritative than Vitali, IMO. Vitali a bit more of a clubber.
I would also add a KO over Ishida which was the best knockout in GGG's career. Saying that, GGG had much more fights in which he administered a terrible, prolonged beatings on his overmatched opponents, and they still were standing on their feet in the end. It might be OK against some durable guys like Murray or even Rosado but Ouma, Stevens and Lemieux were far from durable, and they took enormous beatings before being stopped on their feet. Lemieux had certified glass jaw and was still able to last as long as he did, taking some clean punches from GGG. I'm pretty sure that Hagler would take out Ouma, Stevens and Lemieux way quicker than GGG did. I doubt Lemieux would last two rounds against Marvelous Marvin to be honest.
Ouma was super durable. He always was. Look at his matches before the GGG fight. No other fighter could take that beating and still keep banging with Golovkin for 10 rounds.
None of these men are "really" one puncher hitters but I'd say: Golovkin Hagler Chavez Vitali And that's simply because I think that's the order of their power. Vitali for instance despite having a higher ko % than Wlad for example was nowhere near the hitter, he was just able to lay hands on the opponent more consistently.
