The most damaging fighters of all time?

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  1. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Fight reports attest to the damage he did to Sharkey, Jeffries, Choynski... and Ruhlin, who he damn near killed.
     
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  2. Ike-Man

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    GGG.
     
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  3. Birmingham

    Birmingham Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    I didn't expect to see Wilder on here lol
     
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  4. mcvey

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    Marciano ruined a few guys,Vingo, Layne,Lastarza,Charles,C*ckell.
    Louis smashed Uzcudun's gold teeth, knocked them on to the ring canvas drove Braddock's teeth through his mouthpiece and into his lips, broke a bone in Schmeling's back,turned Godoys face into hamburger.Bob Fitzsimmons nearly killed Gus Ruhlin, so badly was Ruhlin punished he had to sleep on a make shift cot in MadisonSquare Garden and then spend a week at his managers convalescing and two men died after sharing a ring with him.Fitz broke Jeffries nose, and caused deep lacerations to his cheek bones and eyebrows.
    Johnson gave Burns an injury to his jaw that made it swell up alarmingly,he punished McVey so badly in their third fight McVey was looking like a gargoyle at the end.
    Duran gave out some bad beatings , notably to Davey Moore.
     
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  5. RockyJim

    RockyJim Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Marciano ruined a lot of people. Saw an article that mentioned 13 permanent retirements...
     
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  6. BlackCloud

    BlackCloud I detest the daily heavyweight threads Full Member

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    Thats not surprising, considering how old they all were!
     
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  7. BundiniBlack

    BundiniBlack Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Trinidad and earlier Hopkins gave some of the greatest beatdowns ever
     
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  8. Giacomino

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    Depends if you mean ko power or the fact that opponents were changed by the experience.

    If the latter, I'd say Chavez.
     
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  9. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Jose Luis Castillo put some bad beatings on opponents over the years. Not surprising considering he was basically a poor mans Julio Cesar Chavez, who was a master at being a damaging fighter.

    I remember him doing it against a prospect back in 2011 in a televised bout. Guys name was Ivan Popoca. Even though Castillo was years past his best, he was still a meat grinder of a fighter if you weren't prepared or quite good enough. Popoca never fought again.
     
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  10. McGrain

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    Joe Louis.

    “It ain’t like a punch. It’s like someone nailed you with a crowbar. I thought half my head was blowed off. I figured he caved it in. After he hit me I couldn’t even feel if it was there.”—James J. Braddock

    “God how that man can hit. I can’t remember anything after the first knockdown.”—Johnny Paycheck.

    “He hit me eighteen times as I was in the act of falling.”—Max Baer

    “I was worried he would break someone’s neck.”—Arthur Donovan

    Ray Robinson.

    “I don’t know anything about that punch. Except I watched it on movies a couple of times.”—Gene Fullmer

    “He was the best puncher, he was the hardest puncher.” - Carmen Basilio

    Bob Fitzsimmons.

    “Whilst physicians were examining him, Ruhlin opened his eyes and faintly asked for water. This was given him as he again lapsed into a sort of stupor. Blood at this time was trickling from his ears and nose.”

    Sam Langford.

    “I fought most of the heavyweights including Dempsey and Johnson, but Sam could stretch a guy colder than any of them. When Langford hit me it felt like someone slugged me with a baseball bat. It was like taking ether. You just went to sleep…”—“Fireman” Jim Flynn

    Sonny Liston.

    “After Liston knocked me out I felt, for four or five seconds, that everybody in the arena was in the ring with me, circled around me, like family…I actually blew a kiss to the crowd from the ring.”—Floyd Patterson

    “Nobody should be hit like that. I think about it now I hurt. He hit me to the stomach with a left hand in the sixth. That wasn’t a knockdown. It couldn’t be. I was paralyzed. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t move enough to fall down.” - Marty Marshall



    If I was naming one guy, might name Langford. Ketchel was a beast too.
     
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  11. bcr

    bcr Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Jeff Fenech
    Wilfredo Gomez
    Gerald McClellan
    Nigel Benn
    Tito Trinidad
    Terry Norris
    Recently, George Groves and Gennady Golovkin.
     
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  12. Longhhorn71

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    Rudy Robert, a natural 175 lb'er, killed two guys.
     
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  13. Longhhorn71

    Longhhorn71 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Alex Arguello, with Reyes gloves, chewed opponents faces up at the lower weights.
     
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  14. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    Goosebumps
     
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  15. Eddie Ezzard

    Eddie Ezzard Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Someone like Frank Bruno who hit really hard but lacked the skill to finish opponents so they had to keep taking the heavy stuff
     
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