Revisitng The Ring Magazines Top 100 Punchers List

Welll i understand that they felt the list would be incomplete without certain legends on that list. However alot of the greats on that list werent really one punch guys... Chavez,Hagler,Armstrong had pretty good power but , for one punch i could think of alot of guys who hit harder.... Dont get me wrong all 3 were capable of hurting an opponent at anytime, but it was their relentless,accuracy,conditioning and accumalation that usually put the finnishing touches on guys.... And to a lesser degree Mccallum and Salvador Sanchez.... Mccallum was a good puncher at Jm but not exactly a bomber and for the most part of his career was only a decent puncher(at Mw and higher wts).. Same with Sanchez, good puncher but not a bomber just very accurate, im the bggest Sanchez fan around but hes overrated as a puncher... Saw many fights where he threw everything and the kitchen sink and could finish guys.. Holyfield was another guy at Cruiserweight big puncher, but at heavyweigh average but sharp...


Guys that could be higher(even though some are high) are Rosario,Cuevas,Mccellan and Danny Lopez... All have respectable rankings but are lower than Saad... I think Saad was a very good puncher but a little high.... I know there are some guys that are not coming to mind.. But the ones who stand out that should have made the list are Carbajal,Donald Curry, and probably Aaron Pryor,and Azumah Nelson too... All guys who hit harder for one punch than some of the greats i mentioned..

3 guys who could be on the list but were left off cuz they were either still active or just starting would be .. Jose mastrito Lopez,ANtwun Echols,Randall Bailey... If they revised it 10 years from now.. im sure Wlad,Pac(lighter weights) will be in ... And from the looks of it Gamboa,Segura,Nonito and maybe a couple of others.... Also Izzy,Rafa Marquez,YOung ODLH.

 

So many missing , so many ranked too high , many ranked too low and many get an undeserved inclusion.
Tua too low , Holyfield a bit too high , I think , Oliver McCall out of it , quite bad .
A populist list as expected .
Tom Sharkey in ? @ #64 ?
Young Peter Jackson out too .
Pacquiao should be in of course.
McCline and the Klitschkos are out , and it is from 2003.
Reggie Johnson and Jorge Castro missing too .
These men should be introduced : Corrie Sanders , Ross Puritty , Lamon Brewster.
Eubanks , Benn (probably he's in but I missed him) , McClellan .
James Toney .
McCallum too high.
Donald Curry deserves a mention.

 

its a good list in that it includes a lot of great fighters with a lot of stoppages/KOs on their records, what more can such a list provide?

ALL lists are incomplete and INACCURATE,
especially rankings, it's IMPOSSIBLE to accurately rank 10 men in any division and even less accurate the more you go, top 100 and so on.

Boxing IS LITTERED with GREAT fighters,
there are hundreds of them, sure a Joe Louis or SRR or Mike Tyson who stand apart come along from time to time, but the Greats who aren't quite super human are only just below them!

I've always said Top Men are TOP MEN and they can compete and beat one another in multiple contests and they are GREAT and there are hundreds of them in Boxing History!!!

 

lol. KOing Wlad puts you in the Rings top 100 punchers? I can understand if those three KOed Holyfield in his prime but Wlad?

 

I think we need to keep two things in mind. 1 ) The list was done in a pound for pound type of sense. 2 ) A fighter being famous is factored in making the list.

 

Thomas Hearns is at 18. That is all the explanation anyone needs.

 

Kinda of shock there are calls for Ali should be on that list on the sites message board.

 

Nope and Nope. Walcott deserves to be on the list.

 

Puritty has 27 out of his 31 wins by stoppage and it's even much moe impressing considering the fact that he rarely got the opportunity to fight for the entire 12 (not to mention 15 or more).
He actually beat Tommy Morrisson flooring him twice in the process but got robbed of the decision.

Corrie Sanders floored Vitali Klitschko as well while out of shape himself , and Rahman .
Eliminated Michael Sprott , Alfred Cole , Carlos DeLeon , Mike Williams , Johnny Duplooy each one in 1 round.Eliminated Bert Cooper in 3.
Bobby Czys @ 2.


Lamon Brewster whom "lost" the second Klitschko fight because he was pooled out of recovery from detached retina operation not fully healed which was intentional and planned by Wlad's management to arrange a "successful revenge" for china chinned Wladdy , stopped Luan Krasniqi and Andrezj Golotta as well , also floored Sergue Liakhovich and KOd Cleveland Woods whom was the only man to ever convincingly stop Ross Puritty.

 

He was number 66.

 

Aurelio Herrera was the most egregious omission by far, imo. He may be the hardest-hitting featherweight/lightweight ever. Lem Franklin should have been on there as well, over Elmer Ray. The man who trained both Lem and Joe Louis thought Franklin was the harder hitter as did many writers and boxing people back then. He had a lot of great knockouts over a lot of top heavies. Too bad he couldn't take a shot.

Tom Sharkey was a wrecking machine. He should have been higher, imo.

One more thing to remember. This was a list of "greatest" punchers, not "hardest" punchers.

 

SUZIEQ, I did not mention Walcott at all in this thread. I think your cover has been blown. Posters with multiple accounts run the risk of being sanctioned.

 

This fact seems to have eluded many. For instance, while Chavez might not have been a devastating one-shot artist, he was a great body puncher whose combinations flowed smoothly and with great accuracy. He was a great puncher.

 

All these guys you mentioned that they knocked out are either bums or have glass chins. Purity knocks out bums and just so happend to KO Wlad and that makes him top puncher? KOing Morrison does not make you one of the hardest punchers in any form.