Who were the top 10 hardest punching welters of all-time?

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  1. mcvey

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    Campas yes.
     
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  2. mcvey

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    QUOTE="clum, post: 20626677, member: 115825"]No one's mentioned Lloyd Honeyghan yet. For a couple of years he was just destroying people. The one-punch knockout of Gianfranco Rosi (who was a natural 154-pounder) was particularly brutal.[/QUOTE]

    I saw a lot of Honeyghan heavy handed, but I never thought of him as a top end banger.
     
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  3. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Why wasn`t Cerdan overpowered by a hard punching middle like Zale then?
     
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  4. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    I saw a lot of Honeyghan heavy handed, but I never thought of him as a top end banger.[/QUOTE]
    Also no proof Rosi had a chin, he was a spoiler and that would be the reason he survived v any real bangers he might have faced.
     
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  5. he grant

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    I saw a lot of Honeyghan heavy handed, but I never thought of him as a top end banger.[/QUOTE]

    Lloyd was one nasty mojo for a while ...

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  6. Cecil

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    Yes, but the 4th hardest hitting welterweight of all time?
    He wasn’t that high in his own era.
     
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  7. mcvey

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    Because Zale was washed up.
     
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    Lloyd was one nasty mojo for a while ...

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    Hatcher was really a light welter.
     
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  9. Unforgiven

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    Cerdan was very durable.
     
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    I'd rate Robinson as the best puncher at welter, with Hearns up there too.
     
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  11. mcvey

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    Nothing wrong with that pick.
     
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  12. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Garcia just stood off doing a no mas and isn`t a fully fledged welter at all, Spence does not have one punch KO power like Hearns had, not even close.
     
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  13. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    McCrory couldn`t stop Colin Jones.
     
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  14. JohnThomas1

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    No one ever did except for a cut nose.
     
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  15. ETM

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    This guy. Hardly let his hands go but when he landed he made Ernie Shavers look like Slapsie Maxie.
    Lopez single handily ruined Ike Quartey's reputation. Gil Glancy had just stated Quartey had the greatest chin he'd ever seen in boxing.
     
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