The Hardest Hitting CW Of All Time?

The Cruiserweight division was actually established in the early 20th century.

 

I still stand by my selection of Rocky Marciano. While heavyweight champion he weighed 184-189 lbs within the 176-190/200 crusierweight range and all but one of his chalengers were in the 176-200 lbs range.

 

If you are looking for a modern lights out puncher at Cruiser, check this guy out. Chakhiev was the gold medal winner at heavyweight. He is a tad small for a modern heavyweight ( 6' 200 pounds ), so he's starting his career out as a cruiser weight.

This is a classic left hook KO...

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Bump. A good 15 years since the last entry into this thread, and a lot of hard hitters in Cruiserweight have come and gone in that time. I’m curious to see if answers have changed since then.

 

Still Rocky

 

If we're talking pure, raw, 1 punch power, in absolute terms, and completely disregarding ability to set up and land that power, Darnell Wilson would be my guess.

 

Rocky surely deserves a mention but if we're going for one punch power, that elusive and oft mislabeled ability, he probably loses to a couple guys. Still, he's in the discussion.

 

The Russian Hammer

 

What the hell happened to him, though?

The other Russian, Gassiev, would also be a good answer.

 

Murat Gassiev
David Haye
Herbie Hide

 

1. Dmitry Kudrayshov
2. Murat Gassiev
3. David Haye

 

Didn’t even know Hide fought at cruiserweight. Thought he started as a heavie? Did Moorer ever fight at cruiserweight up his way up to heavyweight?

 

From the time the division began? Probably David Haye

Opetaia and Gassiev are up there too.

Prior to division officially starting? Marciano followed by Dempsey.

 

He had big big power but alot of glass in that jaw. His skillset was pretty bad too but he certainly looked the part.