Your top 5 middleweights hardest hitters?

Even Hagler had trouble with Roldan but i agree that his ko percentage dropped after hitting MW, but still the dark cloud of that right hand loomed over every opponent

 

He was a hard hitter at these weights, no doubt, but ranking him in Top 5 is totally unjustified.

 

Julian Jackson
Stanley Ketchel
Eugene Hart
Tommy Hearns
Gerald McClellan
Bob Fitzsimmons

HM: Nigel Benn, John Mugabi

 

I see i do not stand alone in choosing the Hitman

 

What if the people who have chosen Hearns in Top 5 were asked to justify his placement ahead of Fitzsimmons, Ketchel, Robinson, Graziano, Fernandez, Valdez, Brisco, Hart, Mugabi, Jackson, McClellan, Jones, Echols? What makes anyone think Hearns hit harder than these fighters, based on what?

 

In any order:
Archie Moore
Stanley Ketchel
Bob Fitzsimmons
Gerald McClellan
Nigel Benn

Julian Jackson and Rodrigo Valdez also deserve a mention.

 

Based on his ko percentage against MW it doesn't seem justified.
Some off the names you mention are not even big punchers.
Fighters like Graziano, Echols and Robinson relied more on massive punchoutput instead off big time hitting.
So why include them and not the Hitman ?

 

They have the stats to back it up. Nigel Benn also wasn't truly a KO artist, but he has the stats also. Hearns has neither.

 

What stats you have that makes these fighters such big punchers against class opponents ?

 

Shavers doesn't have KO wins over class opponents either.

 

True but his former adversaries all claimed he was a very big puncher, if not the hardest. For the love of God i can't imagine somebody saying that about Echols or Graziano

 

Hearns
Jackson
McClellan
Valdez
SRR

 

Champions only,Fitz
Ketchel
Robinson
Jackson
McClellan

 

Stopped both with full 10 counts. Hurt the durable Roldan with every single right hand and left hook he landed with. Compare that with Hagler who was hard pressed to hurt Roldan and took over double the length of time to stop him. Was one of the very few men to visibly hurt Hagler in the ring and this alone sneaks him into my top 5. Tommy didn't fight that much at 160lb and so I guess you could say that Tommy is my wildcard pick. Another reason is that he knocked out Lightheavies and Cruiserweights which demonstrated how potent his power really was. Also consider too that for most of the fights that Hearns fought at MW he was past his prime. Finally Tommy was more than just a right hand bomber - his left hook to the chin and downstairs were KO punches too.