What Are Some Of The Hardest Punches You've Ever Seen Land?

The right hand that Arnold Taylor nearly decapitated Romeo Anaya with in the 14th round back in '73 when he won the bantamweight title is worth mentioning.

 

I'm sorry about my "generic" answer...Hereforth I will only discuss last nights bout...atsch

 

Not true,your statement.
Since David slew Goliath ! I was at ringside ....

 

What about the punch Johnson hit Ketchel with after he got floored? I thought ol' Stanislaus was done for after that one?

 

There haven't been many harder shots than the right hand Hearns caught Duran with.

 

Also, let's not forget about Tua-Moorer. That punch makes me happy.

 

I agree...What a right cross from Hearns !!!

 

That was a "humane slaughter" if I've ever seen one.

 

In a small time fight between Furious Freddy Curiel and Ross "The Boss" Minter I saw one of the best right hands I've ever seen land! I like little Freddy, and was rooting for him to beat Allen Minter's kid. With about 20 seconds left in the fight it looked like it was not to be. Freddy lost every second of every round. His face looked like somebody beat him with a brick. He was trapped on the ropes, and looked like he was about to go down. All of a sudden Freddy came up with a right hand from hell that hit the Minter kid flush on the kill button. He hit Ross Minter so hard that Minter flew two thirds of the way across the ring, and the referee immediately covered the Minter kid, and waved off the fight.

In the post fight interview Freddy Curriel said; "I knew I was going to catch him with a right hand. I just didn't think it was going to take so long!" Simply amazing!

 

I went to deee top of a cliii - ifff

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Also remember seeing a Roberto Duran fight some years back - I'd say probably in the mid-90's and the fight was at middleweight - his opponent was called Tough Tony Menefee - I remember Duran timing the most perfect right hand over the top of Menefee's jab and the way Menefee went down was bizarre and frightening - his body completely disobeyed everything - completely neurological stuff - scary - and then the kid managed to hall himself back up!!! How he manged it I will never know - even Duran was appealing to the referee to stop it - he had that look about him like a ghost walking - the power in that shot was simply frightening

 

I was among the surprised viewers at home when Curiel pulled it out.

What mattered most to me though was what happened afterward, when Ross's dad showed the world a good father's unconditional acceptance and support, just as Joe Frazier did with Marvis after his boy got starched by Holmes. (Marvis still gets emotional over how Papa Joe was a man about it, letting his boy know it was all right. From what I gather, he's a far better father than his thieving, greedy ***** daughter Jacqui deserves. His money put her through law school, and withdrawing his lawsuit put her on the municipal court bench in Philly.)

Alan Minter is a sharp contrast to a shithead like Gregorio Benitez. After Wilfred fractured his ankle against Davey Moore, that ******* actually had the nerve to tell the television interviewer that his son lost because he was lazy in training! Gregorio said nothing, nothing, about the obvious crippling injury Wilfred sustained, or the fact that El Radar didn't stay down or quit, but got up, and actually finished the round on a broken and useless leg! Gregorio was a son of a *****, just like Philip Coetzee.

 

That punch Gatti landed to bust Ward's eardrum in the second fight was really brutal! Some of the body punch combos landed in the middle rounds were painful to watch as well.

 

Around this late stage of his career, Duran timed a right hand which pushed his victim's nose half way across his face. Obviously, the match was over then and there. It was one of the most excruciating looking injuries I've even seen inflicted in a boxing ring, and a sterling display of deflection marksmanship.

When Ali decided to quit after Berbick, he specifically said his timing was gone. Ortiz said the same thing after Buchanan. Duran somehow never lost his sense of timing. Neither did Moore, Holmes or JJW. They just knew where the target would be when they launched their missiles at that location. (In Larry's case, soft contact lenses made a huge difference. Corbett would definitely have beaten Jeffries in their first bout with that technology aiding his vision.)

 

Good point about Corbett-Jeffries - that Duran shot you mention sounds disturbing :yikes - do you know the fight (name of the opponent)? Is it on Youtube anyway?