Top 20 greatest punchers in heavyweight history

We get it. You desperately want to have *** with Wladimir. I think there are other sites where you can discuss with other similar-minded folk about that sort of thing.

 

I would place Lem Franklin over Gerry Cooney or Tommy Morrison. Cooney beat up the skeletons of Norton, Lyle and Young. They were pretty much finished by the time they were fed to Gerry. Franklin took out Jimmy Bivins, Lee Savold, Abe Simon, Tony Musto and Curtis "Hatchetman" Sheppard(something very few managed to do).

 

One guy faced and beat 5 of the guys on this list… and some say he didn't have a quality chin.

 

Schmeling deserves to be on the list over several of these guys. Only man to stop Joe Louis over a 16 year span, only man to stop Steve Hamas, only man to stop 200 plus fight veteran and hall of famer Young Stribling, only man to stop prime Johnny Risko.

Ibeabuchi with only 20 fights and one KO over a top fighter does not belong.

 

John L Sullivan should be in the top 10.

 

How about The Cannon? Most first round knockouts for any titlist and he's the only guy I know of to have won a heavyweight title by knockout with nothing left on the clock.

 

I might put Vlad top 20 on the punchers list...might. But not top 10.

 

Also the first guy to stop Mickey Walker above WW—which I know seems like a weird thing to be proud of for a HW but don't we all agree Walker had a damn good (if not better) resume above 147lbs?

Either way, doesn't hurt Schmeling's case.

 

And those that beat him at strip shot chess and are still waiting for the ******* to call back.

 

1. Mike Tyson
2. Joe Louis
3. Earnie Shavers
4. George Foreman
5. Lennox Lewis
6. Rocky Marciano
7. Sonny Liston
8. Jack Dempsey
9. David Tua
10. Wladimir Klitschko
11. Joe Frazier
12. Riddick Bowe
13. Max Baer
14. Sam Langford
15. Vitaly Klitschko
16. Ingemar Johansson
17. Gerry Cooney
18. Tommy Morrison
19. James J Jefferies
20. Shannon Briggs

Hon Men: Ike Ibeabuchi, Razor Ruddock, Mike Weaver, Bonecrusher Smith, Bob Fitzsimmons, Tony Galento

 

Oh ****, you always forget someone: also Evander Holyfield in Hon Mention.

 

Excellent list. Wondering if perhaps Elmer Ray should be somewhere on there. But nothing wrong with those names.

 

1. Mike Tyson
2. Joe Louis
3. George Foreman
4. John L. Sullivan
5. Lennox Lewis
6. Jack Dempsey
7. Rocky Marciano
8. Wladimir Klitschko
9. Sonny Liston
10. Max Baer
11. Vitali Klitschko
12. Sam Langford
13. Earnie Shavers
14. David Tua
15. Riddick Bowe
16. Max Schmeling
17. Joe Goddard
18. Ingemar Johansson
19. Tommy Morrison
20. Bob Fitzsimmons

 

Mike Tyson
Joe Louis
George Foreman
Rocky Marciano
Sonny Liston
Jack Dempsey
Earnie Shavers
Riddick Bowe
Joe Frazier
Lennox Lewis
Max Baer
Buster Douglas
Primo Carnera
Evander Holyfield
Hasim Rahman
Tommy Morrison
David Tua
Floyd Patterson
Deontay Wilder

 

I don't know..
-Morrison:What was his remarkable ko/kos ?
(Ruddock in 1995? Who cares a 1995 version Ruddock?)
(Tillis with an actual 39-17-1 record?)
(Carl Williams in 1993? Who cares this C.Williams version?)
Top 20? Without James Smith(Witherspoon,Bruno(unbeaten),Weaver kos)? .
Without George Godfrey?
I think Honorable mention: McCall(Lewis,Akinwande),Holmes,Berbick(devastating Tate ko...),F.Bruno,M. Spinks,Quarry,Mercer,Hide.
And maybe Seldon He could knock Page out .Page had 76 ! fights and only 6 ko losses.
(Page had lots of dangerous or decent opponent:Evangelista,LeDoux,Berbick,Tillis,Snipes,
Witherspoon,Bey,Coetzee,Tubbs,Douglas,Broad,Bugner,O.Norris,Ruddock,James Smith,
Damiani,Seldon,unbeaten Barrett,Jorge Luis Gonzalez) .Nice list.

But i think REAL GREAT/GOOD punchers are/were only Tyson,Foreman,J.Louis,Marciano,
Lewis,Dempsey.
Real decent punchers:maybe the klitschkos,Bowe,Ibeabuchi,Ruddock,J.Smith,Frazier,
Shavers and maybe some other fighters in their primes.