Who do you rate as the fastest boxers in the heavyweight division?

Wilder in full windmill mode is pretty quick.

 

ruiz. wilder might have single shot speed, but hes not coordinated enough to combine punches with speed, he punches way too wide when punching in combinations.

 

Nah, Parker has faster single shot speed.

 

i dont believe so. his arms are shorter so have less space to travel, but from long distance, i think wilder achieves higher 1 punch speed.

 

Ehh. I think Wilders handspeed is overrated. He looked quite a bit slower than Fury to me.

 

Wilders speed is good but only for single shots, Parker can put together fast combos, Ruiz can as well, they both have faster hands than most heavyweights, if not all.

 

i agree, thats why i have ruiz as the faster fighter. combinations, footwork, reaction time, etc... are also indicators of overall speed.
speed is a funny thing, it relies on your muscles ability to expand and contract very fast, but it also relies on your bodys ability to initiate a command, send the instructions down your nervous system, and get your muscles executing the command. thats why reaction time is one of the most important things i look for as indicators of when a fighter has lost a step. that fighter could still look just as fast as ever when he initiates the action, because we cant gauge when the command was first sent to the muscles, we just see the start of the actual movement. but reaction time can be gauged because the clock starts when the opponent starts his move, then we look for how fast the mind can register the opponents initial movement and react quickly enough to safely eliminate the threat.
when your reaction time starts to slow, is when people like to say "he can no longer pull the trigger". thats because you can still see the openings just like you always could, but now, before your body can react to take advantage of that opening, the opening is gone and you did nothing for fear of over-committing.

 

Spot on this.I know I seem to be comparing everything to my other favourite sport cricket but there is a similarity reaction time.The best batsmen in their pomp appear to have loads of time to react and defend or play a shot.Always happens as they get older in that split second they simply lose their reaction time and some folk wouldn’t be able to tell but to me it’s obvious.Same in boxing so when they say the power is the last thing to go it makes no matter as they don’t have the time they once had to react and get their shots off with the timing.

Canelo can make anyone look silly but Kovalev hasn’t been getting his shots off like he used to.

 

yes. and you are right, most people arent able to tell, in boxing either. there are other indicators and methods of measuring otherwise identical fighters. but to discuss boxing at that level, you would have to be among trainers. and sometimes not even there. to hear robert garcia tell it, some trainers dksab.

 

"...moves quicker than any fighter his size in history ever moved..."
Not many good fighters his size though, so the shortlist is pretty short.
Ali and Tyson, just to name a couple of heavyweights, are much faster and move better. But they are not Fury's size.

 

Handspeed
Ruiz
AJ
Parker
Wilder

Mobility
Fury

 

Pretty much this. Yoka has pretty fast hands too