Zhang is the new Corrie Sanders

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For what it's worth, I'd favor Zhang over Sanders. Not with much confidence, but if it becomes a battle of chins and durability (as it likely might), Zhang wins.

 

Corrie was much faster. Numerous CWs he fought praised his speed. That's how fast he was for a HW. Zhang's a lot bigger though

''Corrie Sanders is easily the hardest puncher I've fought''

“Man, he could punch,” Sprott recalled. “He was definitely the hardest puncher I’ve faced. I don’t know where he got that power from. As soon as he hit me, I said to myself, ‘I’m in trouble here’.”

“The punches didn’t even land on my jaw. If they had, I’d have been asleep for days.”

--Michael Sprott

''Sanders probably had the fastest hands I'd ever seen''

--Al Cole

''Corrie Sanders was the most rounded fighter I’ve ever got in the ring with; the most skilled. You go to throw a jab, he slips and throws a southpaw left hand and you think, ‘Where the hell did that come from?’ Because I was fast and a defensive fighter, I didn’t really get hurt. He was hard to pin down as a heavyweight.

''Overall Sanders was very good. He was fast and he was sharp. Remember, I got in there with a heavyweight who was up-and-coming. You didn’t appreciate how fast he was for a heavyweight until you were there in front of him. He looked so easy to hit and that’s the mistake [Wladimir] Klitschko made.

-- Johnny Nelson

Bobby Czyz: Best I've Faced

BEST OVERALL
Technically, the best fighter I fought was Corrie Sanders. He was a big man, 6-foot-4, 240 pounds who had speed like a lightweight. It was unbelievable how fast he was. You couldn’t get away from, no matter where you walked, and he threw a lot of punches.

''He was very fast and he had really powerful hands. I’ve been in boxing for 25 years and I never fought anybody in this game that punched like Corrie Sanders.''

--Wladimir Klitschko

“Corrie Sanders was my most difficult opponent I ever fought. Corrie was fast, could give and take a punch. His style was dangerous and did not suit me. I was very pleased to be able to win this fight.”

-- Vitali Klitschko

''I've never been hit like that in my life''

--Hasim Rahman

Al Cole Best I've Faced

BEST JAB

Hasim Rahman: He surprised me. I always used to out jab people; it seems Hasim outreached me. He had a good jab. It was hard to get around.

BEST DEFENSE

Leon Taylor: Juan Carlos Gomez he was very elusive and quick and that made it difficult to land clean shots. I really couldn’t hit Keith McMurry. Leon Taylor was very slick and agile. He was so hard to hit him, I had to work really hard to hit him.

BEST HANDSPEED

Corrie Sanders: He had handspeed like Roy Jones Jr. With Corrie, I didn’t get to see his shots coming.

BEST FOOTWORK

Juan Carlos Gomez: Sometimes it looked like he was there and he wasn’t there.

SMARTEST

Taylor: His angles and deception. He knew my move before I did.

STRONGEST

Tim Witherspoon: Witherspoon was strong, I couldn’t push Witherspoon around.

BEST CHIN

Witherspoon: The only time I hurt him was to the body. He spat out his mouthpiece.

BEST PUNCHER

Sanders: One of the hardest hitters was Nate Miller. Sultan Ibragimov was a big puncher but I would say Corrie Sanders. I was stopped four times but he was the only one I was hurt by. I was dazed by Corrie Sanders. He hit me, I went down, got back up but when Corrie came in trying to finish me off his handspeed was everywhere.

BEST BOXING SKILLS

Taylor: Gomez was a talented guy. Taylor was skillful. I could throw anything and he could counter me. He was technically sound. He was very awkward. I had a really hard time, I had to grow and learn how to fight better. He used to beat up Riddick Bowe and Mark Breland in sparring.

BEST OVERALL

Sanders: I think Corrie was a heavyweight but he had handspeed like Roy Jones. He put Rahman down a few times and knocked out Wladimir Klitschko. Nobody else did what he did to me.

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