Harder puncher: Tua, Foreman or Tyson?

By request sort of...who do you have has the most power single shot puncher out of the group?

 

Personally I'd say Foreman. Of the three, he is the one most likely to hurt his opponent with a shot they saw coming. He was just naturally heavy handed and generated such subtle leverage in his shots.

 

Tua never dented a PROVEN chin in his whole career. Just as his chin is overrated.... as is his power. I'd say that Cooney hit harder than Tua.

1. Foreman
2. Tyson



3. Tua

 

This ties in with how I see it. Foreman was the widest puncher of the three. His technique during his prime was, IMO, the sloppiest. He definitely had the slowest handspeed of the three (Tua actually had decent handspeed at his rarely-seen best), which is of course a significant factor in power & damage done.

Yet, for all of that, Foreman arguably did more damage than either of the other two, & when he had lost even more speed to age during his comeback, was still hurting world-class fellows long after Tyson & Tua had ceased to.

 

Foolish to even consider Tua alongside these 2. :doh:

 

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What was funny?

 

sorry, wrong emoticon :Thumbs:

 

Iron Mike in his prime knocked out everybody he touched within a minute or two. Cant dispute that kind of pwer

 

Wrong

Obviously Tyson's great power played a big part, but it was moreso his speed and agression that got him early knockouts.

 

Single shot, TYSON, no question. Foreman was physically stronger than Tyson and very powerful also indeed, but George was more of a bludgeoning type puncher, and very heavy handed sort...but his punches didn't have the single shot fight ending explosiveness of Tyson's.

Tua's slightly behind those two IMO.

 

I think this is where the subjectivity comes in. I might agree Tyson had better single shot power, but that's probably more so a result of his speed and opponents not seeing the punch coming.

More effective yes, more pure power? Probably not.

 

I'd go against this only on the basis that I feel Mikes power was complimented by the speed of his shots. Foreman just had power so I'd say he wins this.

 

You could have just quoted my post and agreed with it.

Jerk!

 

Taking away Tyson's speed from the power equation is silly. Whiskey did the same thing. No fighter had faster hands than Meldrick Taylor but he wasn't a one-punch KO artist like Tyson. Sure, Tyson's speed helped him score the knockouts...but it was the POWER that caused the knockouts.

Unfair to imply that he wasn't quite as powerful as he seemed due to his handspeed....

 

It's not unfair at all. It's common knowledge that the punch you don't see coming is the one that takes you out. It's not penalizing Tyson at all, it's part of what made him great.

Mike's opponents often could even brace for the shots coming. Foreman telegrahed his shots and they still did massive damage.

 

furthermore, Foreman's techniue was AWFUL, he tended to throw arm shots... yet, he was so powerful that even these shots would lift guys off the canvas

 

Foreman had veyr heavy clubbing shots


I think maybe "harder" but that is hard to define

Tyson was just crazy fast and hit hard so he was a better. Guy IMO but it was as much speed as power

 

It's Foreman then Tyson and then a million other people and then Tua. What the fuck is Tua doing here anyway??? The guy couldn't even take Rahman out in the 22 rounds they fought. Hell he couldn't even drop Rahman. Get the fuck out of here with Tua in the same category as Foreman and Tyson.

 

Max Baer would be a better single-shot puncher's choice than David Tua.

 

Because TLC insists that he hits harder than both in their primes. :atu:

 

I didn't read your post.

 

Tua probably did hit as hard with a single shot as Tyson. He just sucked in every other way & wasn't able to land said single shots nearly as often.

 

Just messin with ya

 

Agreed. Happy now? :dunno:

George damaged guys with arm shots. Tyson almost always threw with speed and leverage behind his hardest shots. George wins in the pure power stakes for mine.

 

I think Tua belongs in the conversation.

I voted for Tyson because he's the guy I would like least to get hit by with a free shot based on what I have seen.

That said, I think Tyson might be 3rd or 2nd. It's just hard to know because they don't have similar opponents and Tua was as adept at landing.

 

Tyson had explosive power because of the speed he was able to throw his punches and catch his opponents.

Foreman had clubbing, numbing power that just overwhelmed opponents.

Tua, to a degree, was like Tyson as far as explosiveness goes but because of his lumbering style most of the time, he did not land as often as Mike; not to mention, Mike killed opponents with both hands.

 

What would you take?

The open shot Mike Tyson caught Michael "Jack" Johnson with or any of the punches Foreman landed on Frazier or Norton?

I know someone is going to argue about the competition but just take it from a can who take the punch better stand point.

I think Mike landing that same punch on Norton or Frazier yields the same result he got from Michael "Jack" Johnson.

 

Yeah that was pretty devastating. I can't imagine too many fighters in history recovering from that one.