Hardest Punchers Tier List!
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- From modern day boxers like Gervonta Davis & Deontay Wilder, to old school legends in Mike Tyson & Rocky Marciano, BLTV tier list ranks the top 50 hardest punchers in boxing history!
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Tank higher then Hearns is a fucking crime. Hasnt knocked out anybody of note and he gets higher the guy who knocked out Duran.
😂 exactly Gervonta is extremely overrated. He barely could KO glass jaw old Gamboa who ALMOST went the distance. Gervonta also went the distance with unknown Pitbull who had Gervonta running. Every other fighter Gervonta KOed was due to a Rehydration Clause or pulling smaller boxers up in weight and crushing tomatocans 😂
I agree that it should be the other way around no question about that but that Tank hasn't knocked out *anybody* of note is a bit exaggerated considering he KO'd Garcia, Romeo and Gamboa who were all champions.
@@TheBoxingRealm this is a Pound for Pound list, Davis is way smaller than Hearns, you can't compare their power by their K.O rate, someone his size putting people down with one shot is very impressive
@@Ar1AnX1x Even pound for pound wise Gervonta does not hit harder. Hearns carried power all the way to LHW. YDKSAB. Who has Gervonta KOed? Pulling fighters up 3 weight classes? Big tomatocans with "dehydration" clauses?
@@Ar1AnX1x Who did Gervonta KO in one shot? 👂🏼
3:53 I think Foreman’s IQ was a lot better than 83. When he came back the second time, it was his IQ he relied on the most when he realize he couldn’t move as fast as he used to. His IQ is what captured him the world title making him the oldest person in history to win the heavyweight title.
If you search top level boxer's IQs you'd be shocked. Ali had something like 85, yet he appeared and talked like one of the smartest on the planet.
Boxing IQ is a completely different thing
Agreed. Foreman is a commonly underrated boxer, even in his earlier career, because he looks slow and cumbersome. But he developed a style to make the most of his physical attributes and made him very awkward to fight against.
@@S.O.A_Zerohe’s obviously talking about Foreman’s ring IQ, not how well George could match shapes in patterns
@@S.O.A_Zero obviously he was talking about fight IQ wtf 🤣 also any list ranking Mohammed Ali’s actual IQ as below average is obviously completely fucking inaccurate
@@kxnny2 Man, since when do we rank fight IQ with numbers? Because the 83 in the original comment looks a lot like a reference to the IQ i was talking about
i think the only placement im not happy with is GGG. His Jab alone was so heavy that it almost regularly caused knockdowns.
Agreed he's at the very least B tier, the fact he didn't face the best opposition due to them ducking isn't his fault and also has nothing to do with his natural power
HURRICANE CARTER
@@TY-km8hj exactly the ducking was done by his opponents because they feared his power
@cagriyuksel6448 fr, I think he'd beat majority of them anyway
@@cagriyuksel6448 lol... bro GGG ducked SOG. He did his own ducking aswell
Liston deserves that S+ slot. Come on now.
Agreed. "Every time he hit you he broke something."
I agree
in my opinion, the scariest fighter of all time ... his stare is death and his jail records are enough to destroy anyone ... his 15" fist ... better get a hammer ... Liston will hurt you and scare you ...
nah bro s is perfect for him
he once missed and disslocated his shoulder by how hard he hit
Ron Lyle and Cleveland Williams just left the chat
also, Gerry Cooney. If Foreman says he was the hardest hitting Southpaw, it says something
Absolutely right
Yeah, Ron Lyle has to be on here!
Sonny Liston one of the most devastating punchers tf wrong with you 😂😂
He was a bull
He’s one of these analytic guys they don’t know anything about boxing or any other sport for that matters.
He’s one of these analytic guys they don’t know anything about boxing or any other sport for that matters.
in the stone age he also lost to journeymen
???? He literally had a good Ring IQ and it's the reason he defeated Floyd Patterson with it. Heck even George foreman used some of his trapping opponents tactics. He hit so hard that he broke something everything he has hit you @@bossplayermfs5972
One thing that I love about boxing is how the sport is well documented. Not only we have footage from 100 years ago but several pictures, news articles and even movies about every major fighter and fight there has ever been throughout the years.
Tank above Hearn’s and such is crazy . Tank hasn’t even fought for a real world title for years let alone moved up weight classes knocking out the best .
For sure, there aren't many fighters I know that can take Hearns' right hand
… but he has moved up in weight and KO’s the champ for the belt , twice!! And this is strictly about punching power anyway dam yall hate on bro so much yall forget yall don’t know boxing 😂 … in real life you’d fanboy out
@@mopar_keys hasn’t moved up like Hearn’s and fought the best . Tank has a padded record same as wilder .
@@robbielong2884 so world champions not enough?? It’ll be better if his team let YOU pick for him huh 🤔 😂😂😂🤦🏾♂️
@@mopar_keys
Tank is HATED bro lol it’s funny and sad at this point
Hearns KO Duran is the single hardest punch I’ve ever seen at ANY weight
I don’t think Gervonta Davis is p4p a harder puncher than Thomas Hearns, Hearns besides wilder has to have the hardest right hand p4p on this list, his power quite literally was enough for 1 punch K.O from 147 all the way to 175
Davis doesnt even hit harder than Ggg
He is, they say Tank jas the power of a light Heavyweight and he is a Heavyweight
@@nananyantakyi1549whos he ko’ed in one punch?
@@nananyantakyi1549yea maybe Floyd or tank said that but he’s nowhere near that, he hits maybe like a middleweight or welterweight but he’s nowhere near heavy levels
Gerald mclellan pfp hardest right cross of all time
I’m so glad to see you acknowledging super old school guys like Louis and Langford as S tier punchers. Too many fans nowadays don’t have a clue just how hard these men hit. Langford regularly one shot men over 50 pounds heavier than him. Louis also often broke bones and knocked out teeth with his punches (he actually punched Max Schmeling’s rib bone into his kidney in their second fight).
To this very day the punching speed and power of Julian Jackson completely amazes me
Julian "ACTION" Jackson > KO Artist 100%
Single hardest puncher I have ever seen p4p. The theory was that he had extra muscle elasticity. When he threw a punch it was almost like a slingshot. Just generated so much torque on the punches. Not sure when we will ever see anybody like him again.
Julian the hawk jackson is the best hitter in the lower weighs in my eyes
He was truly something...
Naoya inyoue top light puncher
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No kidding, right? He straight deleted people, like offline, out on their feet.
Easily.
Jackson was a killer.
Hardest overall puncher is Foreman. Hardest pound for pound is J Jackson
Great list. I'd say generally a bit generous with current fighters. I don't think Tank or Beterbiev should be higher than Hearns, let them fight someone with 40 wins and we'll see what power they really have.
For me the S+ tier is really just Shavers, Foreman, Tyson, Jackson, Louis, Langford, Saddler and reluctantly Wilder too.
Glad to see Naseem got bumped to S in the end. What he did at that weight class with one punch is just different.
Fighters I'd like to see on there include Roy Jones (B? with S+ speed..), Hagler (B? or C?), Liston (S?)
Wilder is a strange one to rank. He was a terrible boxer. Even a terrible fighter, but if he landed one of those rights it was generally going to be a victory. Because of that I would also have him in s+. You can't be that bad of a fighter and win that many fights without unreal stopping power.
@@operator0this man called wilder a terrible fighter , the disrespect and delusion is off the charts lol. If he is so terrible , go accomplish what he has then
@@Ravens-Nation-34 I don't have his power, otherwise I could. Hell, almost anyone could if they had his power.
@@Ravens-Nation-34 Tyson is so insanely overrated for power. I hit harder than him. His power came in all combos he doesn't have true one punch power like me or the others in S+
@@coachingconfidant2785who are you 😭
I've always found the guys who carried their power up through the divisions, the scariest (Fitzsimmons, Hearns, Leonard, Langford etc...)
Fantastic video, as always 🙏🇬🇧🥊
Don’t forget sanders
@@mcdonalcheeand Sanders made finger lickin' good Southern Fried Chicken too!
Classifying Mike Tyson as an "old school legend" absolutely made me feel old this morning! Now get off my lawn!
Seriously, though, I think you've done a terrific job at one of the most complicated and contentious topics for boxing fans: cross-era comparisons. I think it's inevitable for all such lists to have a bias toward the present but on balance, I think you've represented the various eras well.
I don't think tank should be ranked so high with so little quantity opponents
I understand what you're saying but to play devil's advocate Wilder doesn't have a bevy of high quality opponents either but would you really argue that he isn't one of the hardest punchers of all time?
@charlieprince8671
I would argue that wilder and tank wouldn't have the ko percentage if they fought the same opposition and Anthony Joshua or lomachenko.
Why aren’t you complaining about Inoue being at S tier?
@maximovaldes9518
Maybe cuz he's a 3 division world champion and two time undisputed...
Something tank could only dream of😂🤣
@@mrsrt5038 like you said yourself. Low quality opponents. If tank was fighting at baby devisions he would murder everyone there but instead he’s fighting full body weight men. Something Inoue can only dream of
Golovkin C😂 This man is on something
G couldn't even scratch canelo
Larry Holmes' jab alone should earn him a place on it's own, and Jersey Joe Walcott probably should've featured too, but great list!
JJW and Max Baer should have been here, but Larry just didn't hit that hard despite having a great jab.
Great list! I tend to agree with almost any of you picks. I would’ve put both *Morrison* and *Hearns* in A tier. Additionally, I would add *Max Baer* on the list as I see him Knocking out most of todays heavyweights despite being way smaller. Also *Roy Jones JR* could slip in To E-tier considering the other fighters listed there.
RJJ as great as he is, was not a heavy hitter. He only got the KO in half fights.
Max Baer was a lethal puncher. Literally. He once killed a man in the ring.
Sam Langford a absolute legend
Klitschkos in D tier is ridiculous, Wlad easily punched harder than Tyson and so did Vitali on biomechanics alone. Manny Steward himself claimed that Wlad was the hardest puncher and greatest athlete he had ever worked with. Even at 42 years old he dropped a prime confident AJ. Vitali nearly killed Briggs in the ring, they belong in at least S tier, especially Wlad.
Wrong. Manny Steward said Lennox Lewis was the best heavyweight he'd ever seen and that Gerald McClellan was the best talent he'd ever seen. The Klitschkos were no joke and worthy of ATG status, but what you said is wrong.
@@DepressionShaman look it up man. Manny was blown away at how fast Wlad could run a 800 meter on the athlete part. And with punching as well. Lewis was the last undisputed but vitali gave him a nasty run.
@@kylejackson4144 If you have to tell someone to look it up, it means you don't have a source
He nearly killed Briggs because he couldn't KO him and Briggs was a nihilist. Tyson's power is massively overrated. He was speed, not power. Once his speed went, he wasn't KOing anyone good.
When it comes to heavyweights, Foreman is in a tier all of his own. Especially compared to modern boxers. The likes of Holyfield, Morrison, Briggs were running away from him in his mid-40s, while they were in their primes.
I kinda feel Jersey Joe Walcott should be in there. He was one of only two people to drop Marciano (And Rocky bounced up quick from Archie Moore but Walcott made him look up with surprise, with Marciano himself saying he felt THAT punch out of all the other ones in his career). He also knocked out other Heavyweight greats in his time. He could really hit, even if he wasn't a brawler. He was a counter-puncher, that did indeed have amazing timing, precision and angles but also REALLY heavy hands.
Absolutely but his power didn't compare to Rocky's. Nobody's did. Archie Moore said every one of his punches felt like a truck full of rocks and said he punched harder than any heavyweight who ever lived.
@@enigma9971 I didn't say he should be over Rocky. Just in the list.
Surprised not to see Max Baer or Jersey Joe, from Britain Sir Hendry Cooper was always renown for his KO power but can understand not being on the list and Randolph Turpin too, But in fairness to you very fairly done
Seen tank on the s tier alone in the thumbnail said I’m not even finna waste my time
Lennox Lewis is at least an A ranked puncher. The strenght and punch-power he had was MUCH greater then given credit for. Lewis was near a perfect heavyweight who had the skillset of a well schooled boxer and the mindset of a wild lion. He was a boxer first and a finnisher afterwards. But if he really wanted you gone - he would send you out hard and fast. The 2nd Rahman fight, the Ruddock fight, the Botha fight, the Grant fight, the Golota fight etc are fights where he just plain-out wanted em OUT!
Facts he cracked Ruddock with one right hand and he fell like a horse falls when it gets shot , Ruddock was washed but he toppled over crazy
@@DaDominicanDawg Yeah that was major power!!!
LL was just big.
He’s a fraud who ducked Tyson and Holyfield in their primes.
He ducked Bowe until he was washed up too
@@magacop5180 WT#! Are you serious? You decide to take a side with Riddick Bowe over Lennox Lewis....when it freakin was Bowe who DUMPED the WBC world title belt in a trash can to get rid of facing Lennox Lewis - so he could fight a drug-struggling Michael Dokes who was shotgun shot from what he was and then a pointless unrated journeyman in Jess Fergusson.
Bowe and his manager Newman gave Lewis BS worth of offers that Lewis's manager at the time declined but still accepted afterweards due to Lewis wanted to get at Bowe for all his trash & insults since the 1988 OG - woopsie-doo Bowe & newman then says "to late" we will go with another road. That followed with the WBC belt trashing.
And then Lewis still wanted to fight Bowe in 1993 and 1994 but nothing came. In 1996 Lewis was gunning for Tyson as first priority since Tyson had taken his WBC title from McCall who had in his turn repeatedly turned down Lewis a rematch. Well Lewis got it in 1997 and blasted him to quit.
Bowe was supposted to fight Lewis in 1996 and then 1997 but since he could not get past ANdrew Golota in 96, he wanted redemption and postponed there fight. Bowe again gets handled by Golota but again escapes with another "W" due to stupid son of a gun Golota can't fight by the rules.
And what? Riddick Bowew retires in 1997? In his prime age years? At only 29.
Bowe never wanted to face Lewis and never wanted to fight any threts.
WHy do you think Holyfield and other HOF HW have critizised Bowe in recent years for walking away from what should have been his biggest rivalry fight of his entire career?
Bowe was all talk and no walk.
Lennox Lewis fought near EVREY man from there era and defeated them all with only Michael Moorer the other man he did not get (after he lost to McCall that unification went south).
So please, Bowe was the only one ducking. Lewis would just like in the Olympics have defeated him. Bowe had to go wars with Holyfield and was even dropped while Lewis out-boxed him twice! Never lost control.
Sonny Liston was a monster puncher
That thumbnail is disrespectful to the real hard hitting Boxing Legends. Gervonta Diva Davis should never be ranked that high. (Even in the video itself you have Gervonta too high. He could barely KO an Old washed injured Gamboa! Went the distance with little Pitbull) Matter of fact Gervonta's best knockouts were tomatocans, big cans with a rehydration clause or pulling smaller cans up in weight 😂
Inoue case is much worse
I think Earnie Shavers is the hardest puncher in boxing, along with George Foreman and Julian Jackson.
Dude has literally zero knowledge about boxing, that's just a talent
Bro to me Tyson and Wilder are the most powerful literally knocking people 40 to 50 pounds more than them
I remember Ali had some fun with an old Marciano. Even though Rocky was going easy on Ali, Ali was humbled because Ali was crying that Rocky was hitting too hard and was making his arms go numb. Ali was glad they never had the chance to really fight.
Wilder is so lucky he’s got that ridiculous power, because he’s not a “boxer” in any sense of the word.
Hes not a boxer hes a sniper he doesnt want to be beautiful and technical he just go there and knock his opponent out without fancy tricks, he had his own style
I see foreman as an incredibly strong dude rather than a bomber, of course he hits like a truck but he's like an absolute tank, he had volume, he could move around and wrestle and manipulate people, he was just really really strong
this is a great take. foreman was just a very strong man, who happened to learn to box
An off balanced arm punch from Big George would drop people as fast as some of the most technically perfect fully loaded over hands of other heavyweights.
Earnie Shavers is more strong
Shavers had more snap in his punch but foreman rattled your skeleton with a jab
@@Heaveaway23 Muhammad Ali ja disse que Earnie Shavers é mais forte, e Ron Lyle e todos os outros que enfrentaram os dois dizem que Earnie shavers bate mais forte mas também é mais forte fisicamente
Wlad Klitschko is so fucking underrated. He's S tear imo, every one said he's the hardest hand they ever faced, could KO off with a left hand
Great list man. Thought that GGG was pretty low and I wish you talked about Superman. Didnt think he would be S tier.
Can't disagree with any of your rankings on this list. Splendid video BLTV Extra!
Ike, Tua, Shavers, and Foreman are at a league of their own probably a S++ if there’s any
Hearns S Tier for me and ill forever say he was P4P the hardest puncher and had the most firepower i have ever seen.
Tommy is P4P best striker in boxing.
Unless i missed it, I'm surprised Gerry Cooney wasn't on that list. He hit incredibly hard as well
You forgot Ron Lyle who is an S+ a rare 3-way tie in the '70s with Foreman, and Shavers as to which of the 3 punched the hardest, this was a well-documented debate even today, another one in the mix of hardest punchers ever was that comes up in the Heavyweight division was "Gentleman" Gerry Cooney, George Foreman fought against both Lyle and Cooney and ranks them both as the hardest punchers he ever faced, BTW: the Foreman VS, Lyle fight was a Knockdown fest at one point George Foreman was knocked down in a way that he looked like he was out cold some refs today would have waved it off but Big George got up before the 10 count and went on to KO Lyle, and needless to say with Foreman's Granite Chin, if someone was able to put Foreman down like that and had him staggering throughout the fight in various moments then you know how hard Lyle's punching power was, it's a no brainer
As a very casual boxing fan, you've opened my eyes to some new boxers to check out. Pretty cool video, I was wondering if there was a list of some of the hardest punchers, who'd be on that list. Great watch
This guy is a casual boxing fan as well. Delve deeper bro.
Riddick bowe.
On James Jefferies: Creative writing, indeed. Jack London, one of the greatest writers of the era, did in fact try to make Jeff (as he was known) a superhero. When London decided that a black man, Jack Johnson, had no business holding a title that (in London's opinion) belonged to the white man, he pushed Jefferies to fight Johnson. But Jefferies, who looked great in training, he couldn't regain his earlier abilities, and Johnson humiliated him.
A textbook example of why you have to take the sportswriting of an earlier era with several grains of salt.
Bro put tank at A and ggg at C casual
Tank higher than Dempsey and GGG!? Joke!!!
Ggg is a clown
@@SylvesrerSamhis jab alone caused knockouts. You talking like u could knock him out 😂
It’s a p4p list. Sure ggg has more power, but not p4p.
The biggest misplacements for me are Triple GGG and Sonny Liston behind Marciano and Louis when Ali stated Liston hit harder than Foreman
BLTV always delivers with the content... Great.
I believe Inoue absolutely metits the top tier, and Donaire's left hook is arguably even harder than any of Inoue's shots. The problem is Inoue throws in unpredictable combinations making it harder to see coming. Hearns anywhere but the top tier is criminal, and Arguello should be A tier at least. A lot of Tyson opponents also claimed that it wasn't the power, but the speed, that they found so devastating. Tyson was incredibly fast and explosive for a big man but there have been plenty of fighters who took his shots without going down. Holyfield, who was badly hurt by both Bowe and Bert Cooper in previous fights, is a prime example. Liston was also worthy of the top tier
Liston was supposed to be the strongest, Inoue cannot be in S cuz he is a light weight, he cannot hit harder than Mike Tyson or other hard hitter heavyweights.
@@roxy9379This is a p4p hardest puncher list
Inoue has a 88.46% knockout rate and he's in his prime with 26 wins right now. Tyson is well past his prime with 6 losses, twice as many fights, most of them against champions and title defenses, and yet still matches with 88% knockout rate. Tyson's first 19 fights were knockouts, 12 in the first round. Respectfully, Inoue shouldn't even be on the list because his career is still beginning, but saying he's more of a KO artist than Tyson would be insane.
@@polevanidr What does that mean?
@@gorkyd7912 Fr tho Inoue is a live body hitter and even an average precise punch to the liver can tko a fighter
You put Bruno in the list but no Marvelous Marvin Hager!!!??
How dare you!!!
Seems like a really hard list to make, particularly if you nerd out and factor in EVERYTHING:
•Level of competition
•One punch KO power vs accumulative damage
•Weight classes competed in (in some cases did they move up and retain their power?)
•KO percentage
Either way it was a cool vid. Good to see a lot of old legends get their due.
For me, Hardest punchers = 1 punch KO power. For example, Vitali hit hard but it was cumulative. He did not just walk in an KO people like a Tyson would. Same with Wilder. I would put Tyson and Wilder in S for sure
@@maxpower2511 That's a reasonable way to put it, although I would like to point out that there are other factors to consider when determining the effectiveness of a single punch knockout. These factors include the handspeed and technique of the fighters, as well as their unpredictability. For example, a fighter like 80s Tyson was able to knock out opponents with just one-punch typically due to his superior handspeed, intimidation and precise punches, rather than simply relying on brute force. Similarly, Wilder has also been able to achieve one punch knockouts, but his lack of competition and questionable opponents raise doubts about the true power of his punches. Only three of his opponents, Luis Ortiz, Tyson Fury, and Joseph Parker, can be considered as legitimately good boxers, with all three having questionable pasts and vulnerabilities when facing Wilder. For instance, Ortiz was past his prime, Fury had recently returned from years of drug abuse and was severely overweight, and Parker had already suffered a KO loss to Joe Joyce and got dropped twice by Dillian Whyte. Despite this, Parker was able to handle Wilder easily. Furthermore, Wilder's lack of true finishes on fighters like Chris Arreola, who seemed unfazed by most of his heavy punches, also raises questions about the true power of his punches.
One punch KO power wins is easily S+ killers on the list!
No Roy Jones? The man who snapped a ribcage with one punch? 47 KOs?
In about 80 fights 🤣
Tank B, Inoue A, GGG B imo. Hard list to make. Especially with greats who fought outside their natural weights. I think pacman should be on here too. He carried power through so many divisions.
This whole list pissed me off..
LOL
I know it's mildy pedantic, but Foreman deserves more than 86 for heart.
Look at his performances against Lyle and then 2 decades later, against Holyfield?
OK, he lost against Evander, but he took a frightful hammering from a peak Holyfield and remained dangerous throughout.
How much did Floyd pay you to put tank that high lol
You are brain dead..lol, Everyone testifies to Tanks power..They say he hits like a Light Heavyweight and he is a lightweight.
I don't think u can name a lightweight that can punch like tank in this Era.
@@Righthook.. teofimo Lopez lol, unlike tank he knocked out an undefeated lightweight champion in richard commey, same guy that Davis ducked lmao
@Coldass
Hhhhhh davis ducked comey? Comey was not undeafted when he fought lopez and comey is not well rounded fighter a c+ fighter tank is the most complete fighter in boxing today speed timing power defense footwork he can do it all
Lopez is good but he is not one punch lights out but tank is u cannot dispute that.
@@Righthook.. lmao the most complete fighter today is Artur beterbiev, tanks resume is dookie water you cannot dispute that lol teofimo is p4p top 5 and tank has never fought a p4p elite fighter and yet teo has fought 2 undefeated p4p champs in loma and tayler what has tank done his best win was an old washed gamboa
Ron Lyle : 31KO out of 43 wins and 51 total fights
George Foreman about Lyle : "No one, beyond Sonny Liston, ever stood up to me. Everybody would have to run, hide, cover-up . . . no one stood up to me. But Ron Lyle decided, 'I ain't run.' And he hit me so hard it didn't even hurt. There I was on the canvas thinking, 'What excuse are you gonna have now?' I had to get up. But when I got up, he knocked me down again. He beat me so bad, after while he fainted . . . and I won the fight. That was most memorable fight, 'cause I kept thinking, 'Why am I here?'"
Earnie Shavers about Lyle : "Nobody ever hit me that hard. No question about it. I'll remember that punch on my deathbed. Ron Lyle was a great puncher. Tremendous puncher, great guy, good-hearted guy. We became very good friends over the years."
you missed out on a ATG puncher, Ron Lyle.
Everyone you fought and trained with tyson, foreman and liston all said liston hit the hardest.
Both marciano and wilder should be placed in s tier.
Wilders resume will ultimately ruin is legacy. He has knocked out bums.
I agree Same thing with tank
@@rongeez1222 tank is starting to get a few names now though at least on his resume
Earnie Shavers was the hardest punching heavyweight of the 70s.
Good list. There's always going to be points to nit-pick but I think you've done a good job.
The biggest nit-pick would be Hearns. The man has nasty power at many different weight classes. I think he deserves to be A.
Top 5 IMO: Ernie Shavers, Max Baer, Sonny Liston, George Foreman, Sam McVey.
Too bad Ron Lyle was left out of the conversation. He had an epic slugfest with Earnie Shavers, and came out the victor, by knockout. George Foreman stated that Ron Lyle was the hardest puncher he had ever fought.
He said Lyle, along with Cleveland Williams and Gerry Cooney.
so funny to see Mike Tyson ranked so high but Morrison so low even tho he hits harder lol
Another boxer to mention is subriel Matias. He is IBF 140 champ who is 20-1 with 20 KOs. One of his stoppages ended up killing his opponent. His punching power comes from a lot of upper body movement/ should torque. He throws punches in bunches from unorthodox angles. He is the boogeyman in the 140 division with no one really calling him out but Teofimo Lopez. Most of opponents either quit in the corner looking beat up and demoralized or knocked out.
He ain’t at that level bro
But he’s one of the best puncher from this generation
Subriel Matias is MISTER T's son 100%
Wladimir Klitschko at D for power is insane imo.
I'm assuming people like Canelo, Manny, and Roy Jones will make the list at some point too?
Roy Jones maybe but Canelo and Manny are not known for having ridiculous power. Canelo is great but very tactical and uses angles to generate power. I think this list is more for people that are known for having that thudding, one-hit ko power.
Lists are fun for arguing. Nothing else tho. This one in particular.
Great, and I agree: difficult to rank. I would put Liston upper
The Final Fantasy victory theme song at the end made me laugh so hard. 😂❤
Mike was like a 12 gauge shotgun if he ever got close. Deontay is like a musket. He will miss a lot, but one shot landing could do a lot of hurt.
GGG placement is wild….he’s definitely in A tier.
I’d put Duran higher since his power carried on as he moved up in weight classes fighting boxers much bigger than him. And Tank Davis is too high as well since his resume is not very impressive.
This whole list is garbage so you can’t really put duran higher than c if tommy is in b
Prince Nazim and Tommy Hearns are both guys I would put in the highest level. I couldn't stand Prince because of his antics, but was also in awe of his incredible power from any hand position, from any foot position, including from literally floating in the air with a punch that started from inside the opponent's defense. If he had punched from a typical boxing position using his entire body, he may have literally killed people. Tommy Hearns had power that you did not need to see. You could literally hear it. His punches were so damned loud that you could hear him hit people even in fights held in arenas. If any boxer in history is in the top level Hearns is.
How on earth do you not have Ike Ibeabuchi on this list?
David Tua was something special as a puncher, especially with his left hook. I have trouble putting anyone ahead of him as a pure puncher.
Where’s butterbean?
For me Demspey(at least prime which I realize you're using their overall career to gauge your final ranking which I think it should focus on prime) is S tier given the mass difference between him and Willard. Pound for pound that knockout power is absolutely insane but you can't knock Willard's ability to tank hits and keep getting up in boxing's most brutal era(pre neutral corner).
Unlike Foreman's ability to overwhelm with mass Demspey is what Tyson emulates when he talks about explosive speed & accuracy, which is an alternate yet more efficient translation of "power" as we like to call it.🥊
Joe frazier is way too low
He's definitely S tier & above a lot pound for pound , he has the loudest punches I've ever heard in any match
Julius Jackson is the hardest p4p puncher in the history of boxing no debate needed. Man would electrocute guys with 1 punch
Archie Moore NEEDS to be S+Tier, 132 KO's in 220 fights, the MOST KO's in BOXING HISTORY??? He SHOULD definately be S+Tier!!!
idk why Pacquiao isn't even on the list, the fact that he is still destroying this natural welterweights, when he started at flyweight says a lot about his power. He also had one punch knockout power, but he always choose the best competition that the boxing can offer during his prime. This is exactly what you just said at 26:53
Idk why RUBIN CARTER isn't on the list. One punch knockout for Rubin Carter against pac.
Cotto is the only 147lber Manny stopped. Well, he also stopped a shot and disheartened Lucas Matthysse.
David the Terminator Tua should be S+ tier.
Manny Pacqiao was one of the lb for lb hardest punchers the game has ever seen.
Imagine if AJ fought the same level of competition of Wilder, he would’ve had all perfect knockouts just like him
Boxing legends TV thank you for this outstanding video. I'm so glad you started making videos again.
It would be great if you could also make a tier list of the top 50 boxers of all time. greetings from Croatia
Having Inoue at S is insane when he hasn’t fought anybody. Clearly just didn’t want to upset the casuals
mans playing that need for speed 3 hot pursuit music, thought someone wouldn't notice 😌
Im biased towards Heavyweights, so in my eyes the highest tiers should belong to them, with some exceptions! Especially given the fact 80% of heavyweight boxing matches end with a k.o or t.k.o
S ranked(legit ONE punch k.o artists): Wilder, Foreman, Shavers, Julian Jackson
A(1-2 clean punches will put you down): Tyson, Tua, Morrison, Klitschko Brothers, Frazier, Lennox, Liston, Joe Louis
Wilder and Foreman are the hardest punchers ever. Also, being a knock out artist doesn’t necessarily mean superb punching “power”
Wilder😂
Shavers has the hardest punch,period.. wilder😂
That take couldn't be Wilder, foreman hardest puncher all time he hit like a tree trunk
@@Heaveaway23Only Shavers hit harder than Foreman, based on Ali's testimony and I believe him.
I don't. Ali hated Foreman at that time. And boxers always overhyped their elders.@@JayLee-bv3vw
A few honorable mentions that I think you could have would be Ken Norton (since most of the fighters who fought Ali on this list, never injured him, except for Norton, who broke Ali's jaw)., Joe Calzaghe ( who could do what Chris Eubank could to fighters, with a single punch, but preferred a volume of punches as a style and liked making fighters miss and look silly), Aaron Pryor (KOed 85% of the fighters he beat), Ike Ibeabuchi (75% KO ratio), and let's not forget men who killed men in the ring or who died shortly after fighting them. In a few cases, there are fighters who have had 2 opponents die. Bud Taylor (2 deaths), Sugar Ramos (2 deaths), Max Baer (1 death), Ray Mancini (1 death), Primo Carnera (1 death). The last 3 arguably are legends.
Rocky marciano could bend metal 🎉🎉
Wilder only has such a high KO ratio because of the titanium plate in his hand and the fact that his first 25 fights were against people ranked in the 300+.
You can say the same for Tyson.
Tyson at S tier is hilarious. Once his speed went, his power went. And he lost to every top fighter he fought.
Tua should be S, he is the only one who lost a fight but made his opponent hear voices in his head , a true definition of won the battle lost the war for Ike Ibauchi
Pound 4 Pound Prince Naseem Hamed 💯 Hardest Puncher of All time
He was strong for his weight class but not the strongest in my opinion I don't think anyone hit like Foreman Tyson Wilder (only because weight wise he is a small heavyweight) or Julian Jackson as for as NATURAL strength in there OWN weight class even a Marvin Hagler and a Tank Davis... Hell I don't like him but Canelo as well very strong!
Ain’t no way bro ranked George Foreman Higher than Sonny Liston
How on earth is Shannon Briggs on tier E? He's the guy with the most 1st round K.O's in boxing history. That alone shows what kind of power he has.
I love boxing... to even have debates between these people brings me joy
No Holyfield???
Bad list doesnt agree at all