who hits Harder?

I'm not sure anyone has ever taken George Foremans "best punch" but I'm positive It would be harder than Jack's best punch on any occasion.

 

Wrong. He KO'd Fulton(#1 contender) inside a single round with a right hand to the heart, left hook to the top..... But finished him with a straight right cross to the jaw that crumpled him immediately. Dempsey was quite clearly a two handed hitter, just that his left hook was his sunday punch. Think Tyson.

He finished Gunboat Smith with a right to the jaw. Battling Levinsky as well.

 

Anyone who considers Dempsey to punch harder than than Foreman "dont know **** baout boxing".


You digg?

 

Yeah, he had monstrous power in both hands.

I think it's an impossible question to answer, anyway.
Foreman clubbed guys around with more raw clubbing force, but Dempsey had quicker snappier concussive KO power.
They probably wore different types of gloves and wraps too. So it's impossible to say.

 

This is what I was trying to say.:good

 

Foreman. Dempsey was the better puncher though.

 

Kind of like asking if you would rather be beat in the head by a baseball bat or a steel pipe? Does it really matter up to a certain point? These guys brutalized anybody they could land on.

 

maybe true. Dempsey with one shot probably hit harder but foreman may have hit harder with cuffing punches...just as say a wilt chamberlain ...a. Abe simon some giant may have cuffed harder than foreman

 

Tommy Gibbons thought Miske hit harder than Dempsey... so I guess Miske hit harder than Foreman, too.

 

Makes you wonder why Gibbons ran and clinched so much against Dempsey.

 

Probably, eh?

 

Without a shadow of a doubt, Foreman.
Dempsey was 190lbs, fought no-defensive having bozos for the most part, and fought with 4oz gloves.

Foreman was a wrecking machine who fought in the steroid era.

 

Foreman was the harder hitter but Dempsey was the better fighter.

 

Jack Sharkey who fought both Dempsey and Louis stated that Dempsey punched harder. No one argues the power of Joe Louis. Fleischer who watched both men live from ringside also felt Dempsey hit harder.

Sharkey....."I never thought anyone could hit that hard."