Which fighters with high KO rate you don't consider as punchers

The argument is kind of easier to make the other way.

Look at fighters who were obviously tremendous hitters, or just brilliant generally, who had low KO%s.

Spoiler alert, they all fought ridiculously strong opposition.

 

Just trolling my favorite target.

Vitali is the obvious answer. An crazy KO percentage for an arm puncher. But that didn't mean he wasn't good at stopping opponents. He quite obviously was. He just went about it differently.

 

George Chuvalo - his record was heavily padded w/ quick KOs of Canadian clubfighters, but @the world class level he was basically just a solid, but not spectacular puncher.

 

Carnera …. 71 kos in 88 wins

 

Joe Calzaghe AKA Calslappy

 

Probably Roberto Duràn,I don't deny he can generate crazy power at times,downing Iran and Paz above his weightclass,and concussing Ray Lampkin,but he's mostly just a wear down shredding pressure fighter,he'll gradually shred you piece by piece before landing that final ko punch.

 

George Chuvalo
Aaron Pryor
Vitali Klitschko

 

You beat me to it!

My favorite boxer was more of a volume puncher.

 

If it helps here is a list of HW and 175 champs and contenders with high KO rates. I decided to cut it off at 76.5 cause the lists are too long to post. Theres some overlap obviously.

HW
100.0 Herald
97.67 Wilder
95.45 Dubois
95.00 Bruno
94.59 Coffey
94.44 Killen
94.23 Brennan
93.88 Ketchel
93.75 Goddard
93.44 Fitz
92.98 Buddy Baer
92.86 Mexican Pete Everett
92.86 Haye
92.59 Seferi
92.11 Shavers
91.89 Tom Sharkey
91.67 Joe McAuliffe
91.11 Vitali Klitschko
90.91 Willard
90.91 Grimsley
90.77 Gastanaga
90.00 Seldon
90.00 Breazeale
89.74 Fulton
89.47 Foreman
89.29 Joshua
88.57 Woodcock
88.52 Retzlaff
88.37 Frank Slavin
88.33 Shannon Briggs
88.24 Bob Armstrong
88.00 Tyson
87.76 Marciano
87.67 Chuvalo
86.11 Frank Moran
85.71 Tommy Gibbons
85.71 Brewster
85.71 Jim Johnson
85.71 Cooney
85.71 Squires
85.29 Luis Ortiz
85.00 Art Lasky
84.38 Joe Frazier
84.21 Sullivan
84.21 Jeffries
83.87 Firpo
83.33 Jeanette
83.33 Tex Cobb
83.33 Tony Ross
82.81 Wladimir Klitschko
82.76 Greg Page
82.76 James Parker
82.69 Tua
82.61 Savarese
82.46 Tony Tucker
82.35 Hrgovic
82.14 Bob Foster
82.14 Skelton
82.05 Creedon
82.00 Rahman
81.82 O Donnell
81.63 Godfrey(20th century one)
81.63 Wells
81.58 Bert Cooper
81.58 Sam Peter
81.48 Mavrovic
81.25 Leapai
81.13 Dempsey
80.95 Victorio Campolo
80.68 Carnera
80.49 Golota
80.00 Wills
80.00 Terry Daniels
80.00 Iron Hague
80.00 Kaufman
79.17 Manuel Ramos
79.07 Pinklon Thomas
78.79 Louis
78.57 Norton
78.13 Carl Drummond
78.05 Harry Thomas
78.00 Liston
77.78 Jim Flynn
77.88 Lang
77.78 Bey
77.36 Carl Morris
77.27 Godfrey
77.27 Max Baer
77.27 Sultan Ibragimov
76.92 Moorer
76.74 Bowe

175ers
100.00 Bill Hanrahan
95.24 Beterbiev
93.44 Fitzsimmons
93.33 Richard Hall
93.33 Dave Barry
92.31 Yarde
89.66 Macdonald
89.29 Zuniga
88.89 Jim Ryan
88.68 Saul Montana
88.37 Frank Slavin
88.00 Lasisi
86.15 Bob Murphy
85.71 Tommy Gibbons
85.71 Bennett
85.37 Berlenbach
85.19 Emebe
84.85 Crawford Ashley
84.78 Jim Hall
84.62 Dave Maier
83.33 Thadzi
83.33 Telesco
82.98 Sutherland
82.86 Kovalev
82.86 Johnny Howard
82.76 David Benavidez
82.76 Stevenson
82.14 Bob Foster
82.05 Creedon
81.40 Marvin Johnson
80.00 Downes
80.00 Cloud
80.00 Gvozdyk
80.00 Von Clay
79.45 Charles McCoy
79.17 Michalczewski
78.69 Hearns
78.57 Joe Smith
77.27 Mwale
76.67 Bowdry

 

Marcos Villasana had a KO ratio in the 80's I think, though I wouldn't really qualify him as a one hitter quitter.

 

Zeljko Mavrovic. Couldn't even stop the guys who were previously KOed by feather-fisted Larry Donald

 

Terry Norris
Robert Helenius
Ray Leonard's KO% wasn't impressive but his power was. Some of his knockouts were extremely brutal, including the ine against much bigger man in Danny Lalonde

 

Didn't Mac Foster had a hundred percent KO rate in his wins? Quarry said he could punch like hell in the post fight though.

 

Great effort to post this list, thank you.

Apologies for being pedantic, but it's worth specifying that, as is the case with the figures reported on Boxrec, these numbers represent the percentages of total wins, rather than total fights, that each fighter won by stoppage.

I.e. Primo Carnera had 102 x fights, 88 x wins and 71 x wins by stoppage. 80.68% of his wins were by stoppage. He won 69.61% of his fights by stoppage.

 

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