The 5 Hardest World Champion Punchers At 160lbs

Last time this discussion came up, I said:

Based on KO percentage:

Gennady Golovkin 27 fights /24 KOs= 88%

Gerald McClellan has an 85%KO ratio. 29KOs /34 fights

Julian Jackson 49 knockouts / 61 fights = 80% KO

John Mugabi was up at about 78% = 39KOs /50 fights.

Marvin Hagler had 78% = 52KOs /67 fights

Stanley Ketchel had 75%= 64 fights 48 KOs.

Rocky Graziano 77 fights /52 KOs= 62%

Carlos Monzon 100 fights/ 59 KOs= 59%

It doesn't tell the whole story such as skill or opposition, but it gives you an idea. There are also some middleweights that grew out of the division and wound up fighting as light-heavyweights like Archie Moore.

Middleweights who stayed at Middleweight
Eduardo Lausse 87/63KOs=72%
Eugene Hart 41/28KOs=68%
Florentino Fernandez 67/43KOs=64%
Charles Kid McCoy 116/65=56%
Bennie Briscoe 96/53KOs=55%
Tony Zale 87/45=52%
Charley Burley 98/50=51%
Al Hostak 84/41KOs=49%
Freddie Steele 142/60KOs=42%

Middleweights who moved up to heavyweight
Archie Moore 219/131KOs=60%
Bob Fitzsimmons 99/59KOs=60%
Sam Langford 317/128KOs=40%
Mickey Walker 164/60=36%

 

My intuition tells me that Golovkin, wherever he hits you, has unearthly damaging
punches, maybe comparable to old Fitz in his ability to place his punches to any part of the body, and hurt you terribly...Of course he has not fought anyone of note to guage
him with the alltime punchers, but====?.

 

So your just going off percentage?

Then Ketchel at 75% KO ratio isnt as hard a puncher..

KO ratio dosent translate exactly to amount of power

 

Mickey Walker should be mentioned.

 

He didn’t show it so much in the lower weights, but it is very impressive how he battered light heavyweights and heavyweights.

Today he would have stopped Paulino Uzcdun on cuts!

 

No order. Can't limit myself to 5!

Ketchel
Steele
Hostak
Chip (people forget what a brutal puncher he was)
Robinson
Fitzsimmons
Krieger
Apostoli
Graziano
Jackson
McClellan

 

I was a Hagler fan and I have to agree. He definitely wasn't nor should he ever be considered one of the big punchers of MW history. Hags relied on timing to land his sharp, energy-zapping counter punches. Those coupled with his debilitating body attack were what accounted for all those KOs. I can't recall anyone he ever fought referring to him as the hardest puncher they ever faced either.

A second-tier puncher, along with the likes of Monzon.

 

I know just saying he shouldnt be on a hardest punchers list, he hit hard but not that hard.

Hagler was more an effective puncher.

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Jackson
Fitzsimmons
Ketchel
Hostak
Steele

 

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