Why no more 180-199lb boxers with extraordinary punching power?

mrkoolkevin · Feb 3, 2018

reznick said: ↑

You can see the level of power he posses against Jeanette, when he launches a slow moving bomb that violently stuns Jeanette and makes his head whip. You don't see that level of power from Kovalev and Stevenson. Both very good punchers, but a class below.
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So because he snapped Jeanette's head hard, he clearly hits harder than Kovalev and Stevenson? I don't think I follow.

PS - What is a "slow moving bomb"?

janitor · Feb 3, 2018

mrkoolkevin said: ↑

But that's the thing--how much power did Langford actually have? What would a Langford look like in modern 10-oz boxing gloves? For all we know, he may not have hit any harder than Stevenson, Kovalev, Benn, McClellan, Julian Jackson, or even Hearns, etc.
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OMG!!!!!!

Langford had absolutely sick power!

He knocked out pretty much every heavyweight of the era, and usually in a totally disturbing way!

I honestly don't think that any heavyweight in history, as been more dangerous punch for punch.

Every common opponent whose testimony I am aware of, said that he hit harder than Jack Dempsey!

I would go as far as to say, that he was probably the most dangerous puncher before Joe Louis, and that the only other guy with an argument was Dempsey.

mrkoolkevin · Feb 3, 2018

janitor said: ↑

OMG!!!!!!

Langford had absolutely sick power!

He knocked out pretty much every heavyweight of the era, and usually in a totally disturbing way!

I honestly don't think that any heavyweight in history, as been more dangerous punch for punch.

Every common opponent whose testimony I am aware of, said that he hit harder than Jack Dempsey!

I would go as far as to say, that he was probably the most dangerous puncher before Joe Louis, and that the only other guy with an argument was Dempsey.
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No doubt. But these men have sick power too! I see little reason to doubt that they would have brutally knocked out plenty of heavyweights of that era too in "totally disturbing ways." Put Nigel Benn in 4oz horsehair gloves in that era, and give him 200+ fights, and we'd be swimming in testimonials.

Why is it so hard for you to believe that these men may have hit as hard as Langford?

reznick · Feb 3, 2018

mrkoolkevin said: ↑

No doubt. But these men have sick power too! I see little reason to doubt that they would have brutally knocked out plenty of heavyweights of that era too in "totally disturbing ways." Put Nigel Benn in 4oz horsehair gloves in that era, and give him 200+ fights, and we'd be swimming in testimonials.

Why is it so hard for you to believe that these men may have hit as hard as Langford?
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If every hard puncher could hit like Langford, his contemporaries would be receiving similar praise. They didn’t. Just like Benn doesn’t receive the same praise as Golovkin. It makes sense, and I don’t see what’s hard to get.

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