Your favorite fighter with the least amount of power?

Especially considering he wasn't a small HW but a 240 lb guy. Two dozen wins and 0 ko's, don't think that milestone will ever be duplicated

 

Chris Byrd

 

Billy Graham

 

Gianfranco Rosi. Warrior.

Although he did KD Pettway and Van Horn if memory serves.

 

Miguel Canto and Fighting Harada.

 

Tommy Loughran

 

Miguel Canto. I viewed El Maestro's only stoppage win in a title bout, over Jiro Takada. This was an instance where Canto was defending in his hometown. He really went after Takada with attacks like a six left hook combination, but even after he finally stunned Takada and had him trapped in a corner for the stoppage, his power was not impressive. He might be my choice over some others with sparse stoppage records.

Joey Archer had a good right hand, and he used it to deck SRR in Robby's final match. But he used his right primarily for defense. It seems he never threw it in his career finale with Griffith.

Pastrano showed power in both hands with Terry Downs, opening the bout by driving Downes into a corner with a hook, then going for the kill in round 11, initially buckling Terry with a textbook jab-jab-cross combination. Angelo Dundee said Willie could make the heavy bag sing, but Pastrano made a volitional choice not to try hurting his opponents. However, his two successful title defenses were via stoppages.

Tommy Loughran's hands prevented him from loading up more than a few times in a match, but his power potential was never questioned. He is seen rocking Carnera a couple times on film, and to earn his shot at Primo, he decked Jack Sharkey in winning their rematch. His jabs were well timed singular events, and they were pole axes. His jabs literally gave Max Baer nightmares after Tommy took the Larruper to school, and Maxie got Loughran to tutor him on the jab. In round ten with Schmeling, that tutelage paid off.

Maxie Rosenbloom isn't on film apparently, but Mickey Walker described him as a good fighter.

Nicolino Locche does show power against Paul Fuji in winning his title. If Fuji had come out for another round, Locche might have launched his head to the moon with right uppercuts. He was also effective with hooks to the body and crunching jabs in that one.

Vilomar Fernandez was dangerous when he planted. He decked Howard Davis, Jr. then chased him all over the ring in a bout I thought Vilomar won.

Saoul Mamby also made a choice to box stylishly, but he could be extremely dangerous with both his hook and his right. He's the only one not named Duran to stop Esteban DeJesus.

Chuck Wepner, for all his size, was a light puncher. His best legal weapon on Ali was a right to the body, but Muhammad was a much harder body puncher against Mildenberger, London, Blue Lewis and Bugner.

Tyrone "Butterfly" Crawley would trade with much harder punchers on his own terms, and even managed to rock Robin Blake. But he didn't have much power.

 

Meldrick Taylor was a bit of a slapper. He was short and heavy, not overly durable but gutsy and fast. He was missing a hard punch for a good trip up to 147lbs which was a bit of a shame.

 

Nicolino Locche and Jimmy Young.

 

Paul Spadafora. / thread.

 

Willie Pep

 

I dont know about that. Quite a few posters think he could've beaten Roberto Duran at lightweight. ( I don't personally)
But that in itself is an indication of the respect Whitaker gets in mythical match-ups.

 

Even though he had a lot of pop in his right Jab, Winky was never known for being a guy that could get you out of there. He was about as defensively sound and you could be and was the king at taking away an opponents rhythm.

 

Willie Pep, Larry Holmes, Kid Gavilan, Carmen Basilio who had a good left hook but never relied on it.

 

Ivan Calderon.