Hi guys,just came across this list from ring magazine printed up in wiki,heres the list what do you all think? In This content is protected , This content is protected magazine published a list of 100 greatest punchers of all time in This content is protected , as voted by the magazine's writers. Various criteria were used for the voting: what percentage of fights by each boxer resulted as This content is protected wins, how many knockouts and knockout streaks each boxer had, what important rivals he knocked out during his career and who he couldn't knock out. This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected
51 Tiger Jack Fox 52 Joe Walcott 53 Gerry Cooney 54 Al Bummy Davis 55 Max Schmeling 56 Florentino Fernandez 57 Henry Armstrong 58 Bob Satterfield 59 Al Hostak 60 Jesus Pimentel 61 Eugene Hart 62 Lew Jenkins 63 Harry Wills 64 Tom Sharkey 65 Terry McGovern 66 Jersey Joe Walcott 67 Kostya Tszyu 68 Leotis Martin 69 Buddy Baer 70 Donovan Ruddock 71 Jose Luis Ramirez 72 Tommy Gómez 73 Jose Napoles 74 Kid McCoy 75 Antonio Esparragoza 76 Ricardo Moreno 77 Evander Holyfield 78 Ike Williams 79 Luis Firpo 80 Ricardo Lopez 81 Humberto Gonzalez 82 Bobby Chacon 83 Jock McAvoy 84 Eduardo Lause 85 Eder Jofre 86 Charley Burley 87 Mike McCallum 88 Salvador Sánchez 89 Roy Jones Jr. 90 Rodolfo Gato Gonzalez 91 Nigel Benn 92 Irish Bob Murphy 93 Paul Berlenbach 94 Battling Torres 95 Chalky Wright 96 George Chaney 97 Andy Ganigan 98 Fred Fulton 99 Ingemar Johansson 100 Charley White
Still one of the biggest injustices to me is Spinks. The guy has obviously been dragged down because he went to heavyweight, at 175 he was a monster hitter. Saad at 24 and Spinks at 42 is a travesty. Spinks and Mustafa Muhammad were bigger hitters and always beat Saad for biggest hitter in the division awards - rightfully so.
Foreman is there too tho. Many still think Shavers is the hardest hitter ever, tho i'll grant their criteria wasn't 100% power based hence a Monzon etc going well. Shaver's is legend power wise, i think they decided his extreme power overshadowed his lack of top level class enough to still get him in the 10. I'm sure Duo will wholehertedly agree :smoke
I absolutley agree with you. I wouldn't even have him top 10 Heavyweights. My list was much better :yep
McCallum and Sal Sanchez above Benn I think that's a lot worse than Eddie and Spinks compared to Saad.Not much difference between the three imo.All had some brutal knockouts and could turn fights quickly.
They were close, but Spinks surely should have been the head of them. Agree with Benn and co, but do remember it's not power based alone. Even so it's a funny one
Nigel Benn and Bob Satterfield deserve to be much higher in terms or raw power you could argue Satterfield hits harder then Louis, Marciano or Dempsey.
Spinks at 42 is a travesty. As is Dempsey at #7. Foreman at #9 but Marciano at #14 is a joke too. Although i'm no expert on Ketchel, i think there are more proven fighters than him, considering he's #6.
Good list. Just think Eduardo Lausse should be in the top 10. He had to be one of the most feared left hookers ever!
Salvador Sanchez shouldn't be in the list at all, imo. He was a decent puncher, but certainly no more so than SRL, or Jack Delaney, or a whole bunch of others who didn't make the list.
