Who was the biggest fighter Ali KO'd/TKO'd

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Muhammad Ali knocked out Chuck Wepner, who was 2 inches taller than Foreman and 5 pounds heavier than Foreman.

 

He would probably still stop some of the bigger guys simply because bigger guys are easier to hit CLEAN. Thats why even though they dont retain all of their power, some boxers actually look just as powerful or even moreso when they move up in weight.

 

Foreman maybe?

Most of you guys are not naming people he stopped...........only decisioned. The question is that he stopped. I don't think anyone was bigger than Foreman.

(If I'm wrong please advise)

 

The Chuck Wepner that Ali stopped was taller & heavier than the Foreman Ali stopped, as well as taller & heavier than any fighter Ali stopped, iirc.

 

Lyle, Terrel etc.

Foreman was always a tropical, exhaustion kind of stoppage, though Ali definitely helped. It always baffled me Ali was somehow considered feather fisted.

 

I think I remember reading about how he refuses to do roadwork (instead choosing to do swimming) and usually only focuses on power in training. Breland said it was very frustrating getting him to follow his regiments.

 

If the Wilt Chamberlain fight had come off we might’ve had a clear and away winner here…

Wilder can look too damn skinny for his height and frame - which can detract from optimally preserved stamina.

Despite the bravado, he also seems edgy and nervous at times - which will deplete the tank in its own right.

 

The promotional hook for Ali-Wepner was that Chuck was the worlds biggest heavyweight contender, 6'5" and 225 well trained pounds, also that Wepner had allegedly never been knocked down. (This wasn't true. Buster Mathis hooked him to the deck early in Chuck's career, and Liston bulled forward and battering rammed a body shot to Wepner's midsection which knocked the big guy on his backside.)

Ali deliberately chose not to stop Chuck on cuts, but end their match with a clean knockout. At the end, the 35 year old exhausted challenger was indeed dropped by a right that would have produced a ten count had referee Tony Perez had not waved off the count at seven. Ali collapsed from exhaustion after the end, in avenging that bogus trip induced knockdown Wepner inflicted on him. Muhammad's Championship Rounds exertion helped set the stage for his outburst of late round stamina in Manila.

Chuck was a tough guy who could take a punch. Nobody else ever stopped him without winning on cuts. Liston in black and white, Bugner and Bobick have also been on youtube in color defeating Wepner.

 

I was reading this interview with Wepner on the BBC site just the other day. He seems to have genuinely convinced himself that he was stopped on cuts and that he had this whole comedy back and forth with the referee before the end came.

"Tony Perez was the referee for my fight with Muhammad Ali," remembers Wepner of their 1975 meeting.

"After I got knocked down. he says to me: 'Chuck, you're bleeding too much.'

"I said, 'No way, give me this round. Let me finish the fight, I'm all right.' So Tony says: 'OK Chuck, how many fingers do I have up?'

"I look at his hand and say: 'How many guesses do I get?'"

Despite Wepner's protests and to the dismay of the febrile, 15,000-strong crowd inside Ohio's Richfield Coliseum, the referee stopped the fight just 19 seconds shy of the end of round 15.