Tell me a middleweight puncher that you see capable to knock out hws with 1 punch

Langford, though his natural weight is not so easy to define. Hearns might not have HW stopping power but has considerable H2H power way above his natural weight.

 

Perhaps Bob Fitzsimons ?

Of Course it would always depend on the opporsition

 

Satterfield did spark HWs so yeah. Langford's weight is so all over the place I can't pin him. He'd fight at around 180, 160, 170, sometimes all in the same year. All this past 25 years old, so full grown man.

 

Depends on the heavyweight obviously.

I think the punch Hearns finished Duran with, would put a lot of heavys on their ass.

 

Hearns stopped some cruisers at the tail end of his career so, considering some eras were composed mostly of cruisers, technically he could do it.

EDIT: Thread is MWs till LHWs without moving up so, no deal.

 

Bob Satterfield never weighed below 166 in his career. He turned pro at LHW. He never fought a HW when he weighed in the 160s and lost two the four fights he fought at that weight (to men naturally smaller than him). Make Satterfield weigh 160 and he gets his head handed to him by almost any HW.

 

Yeah but he included 168s and 175s at the end of his post.

 

There are some middleweights that have KO power at heavyweight though they are rare.

Fitzsimmons could do it and proved it.

Jeff Lacy, who fought at super middle had the highest PSI punch on the USA Olympic team. Lacy tested somewhere near 1000 PSI.

Fitzsimmons himself rated as high. But it's not just power, its also placement.

GGG, I think could KO heavyweights.

 

Whoops, missed that. Thanks for the correction. Although he still never beat a world class HW while weighing under 175 much less stopped one. I have no doubt a lot of fighters, including middleweight could knockout a top HW with one punch if the guy stood there in front of him with his chin up, eyes closed, and hands behind his back but that's not boxing. What matters is if you can do it in an actual fight and while Satterfield was a big puncher he could never get it done while weighing 175 or less when it mattered.

 

Gerald McClellan.

 

Langford, Fitz, Ketchel, Darcy, Walker, Hearns all proved it to one degree or another

My bet for some unproven guys would be Lausse, Steele, Hostak, Turkey Thompson, G-Man, MW Archie Moore, maybe Ceferino and Jackson.