I was going through some good fighters from the '90s and what amazes me is the number of great punchers we had those years, Tyson, Lewis, Ruddock, Mercer, Morrison, Bruno, Tua, Ibeabuchi etc etc. My question is, who is the top five heavyweight punchers in the '90s.. I'd personally say Tommy is #1 or #2, he's a beast. Tyson and Lewis are obvious picks too, but here's my list of the five hardest punchers in the 90s. 1. Tommy Morrison 2. Lennox Lewis 3. Mike Tyson 4. Razor Ruddock 5. Mercer/Tua (Can't make up my mind, Tua was just up&coming, and Mercer was a solidified puncher)
Lennox is tops. a man with that size and variety of punches is just lethal. he could throw every punch from different angles as well. after that, its debatable. Morrison was a one-trink pony, a left hook. what is his best stoppage win? ruddock? who else?
1. David Tua 2. Lennox Lewis 3. Mike Tyson 4. Tommy Morrison 5. Razor Ruddock 6. Frank Bruno 7. Ray Mercer 8. Ike Ibeabuchi
As I've said earlier, I may have a biased point about Morrison, but if it was one thing the man could do, it was punch hard as hell. Tyson could punch like hell too, but I feel that he finished off most of his fighters with combinations, and many times on accumulation.. and I've heard Ruddock said that Morrison is the hardest puncher he's faced, I know.. he's a talker but.. The '90s had so many awesome heavyweight punchers, it's quite ridiculous what we have now compared to what we had back then
Ruddick Tua Tyson Lewis Morrison I think there probably the top 5 punchers, but you can easily throw Bruno or Foreman in there as well.
Where do you guys think Foreman fits into the mix? He wasn't a great fighter in the 1990s, but he still had massive power and extremely heavy hands.
He could be top 5, he was maybe still the best one punch knockout artist at the time, I would put him at 6 probably.
