Who hit hardest at heavyweight

You do know that Foreman actually fought in the 70's too right???

 

Foremen # 1 all day
Tyson/ Shaver #2/3 either way
I like Corrie Sanders myself, and would rate him higher than either Lewis or Klitschko, and they are bigger HW's. How do little guys like Marciano, Louis and Frazier make the list. I don't see many of those guys dropping guys with one solid shot as do the others. Those three were accumulation punchers who wore their opponents down with high volume and body work. We would't even call em punchers in todays class. We'd call em Adamek or Jirov, or Toney.

 

Shavers even though he's by far the worst on the list skill wise.

 

I say foreman, tyson, ken norton were top 3.

 

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Your name and avatar tells me all I need to know about you. Why post on a boxing fan forum though? Isn't there a Klit forum you can all go to? This kind of top 5 all-time nonsense would probably be tolerated there.

 

Shavers hardly beat anyone that good, Foreman fought and KO'ed way better fighters.

 

Of course Wlad should be on the list. He's knocked plenty of guys out with one punch.

His power has never been in question, just his chin and his resolve when hurt.

 

Emmanuel Steward on Wladimir’s punching power:
“What makes him really special also is he has so much power in the late rounds. A lot of guys, great punchers like (Mike) Tyson, they were great in the early rounds but very seldom in the late rounds. Wladimir has knocked out guys like he did with Chris Byrd, and (Ray) Austin, and Eliseo Castillo—he knocked those guys out early because he threw a punch early, an early power punch. And then he’s had the power to go out after being down three times with Sam Peter and he had him out on his feet in the twelfth round of a very grueling fight with one single punch, a left hook. Then he knocked out Thompson. With Tony Thompson he ran across the ring and threw one straight right hand in the eleventh round and just walked away, and Thompson went down totally finished. Now he knocks out this guy in the twelfth round with ten or twelve seconds left with one punch. To have a fighter that has that kind of devastating one punch clean knockout power is so much stress on the opponent because you’re never safe.”

he also said wlad has knocked guys out in sparring even when he hit their gloves.

 

What an absolutely pointless post.

 

i picked foreman but shouldnt tua be on that list?

 

Shavers first. All his opponents who had him and Foreman in common unanimously said Earnie hit harder.

Foreman, though, is a close second. Two best punchers in heavyweight history.

Lewis and Wlad tied for third. I can't split em.

Tyson was a knockout machine, but if you read the book Facing Tyson, one thing many opponents said was the most shocking thing about facing Tyson was that he didn't hit as hard as advertised and his handspeed was a WAY bigger problem than they anticipated. Tyson's knockouts owe alot more to his faster hands and placement than heavy hands. The above names, punch for punch, hit much harder.