Fastest hands of all time

Just in terms pure hand speed. I’ll put 5

Roy Jones
Hector Camacho
Howard Davis Jr
Muhammad Ali
Shane Mosley

 

Roy Jones Jr
Meldrick Taylor
Hector Camacho
Howard Davis Jr
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Robinson
Floyd Patterson
Mark Johnson
Gary Russell Jr
Manny Pacquiao
Miguel Canto
Ismael Laguna
Willie Pep
Kid Gavilan
Johnny Tapia
Midget Wolgast

 

Jones, Leonard, Camacho, Taylor are my top 4.

 

Pacquiao should be on any list when it comes to handspeed for me. He had stupidly fast hands at the lower weights, and a huge part of his success moving up was that he was able to maintain it without much of a drop off.

 

Charlie "White lightening" Brown

 

This'd probably be my list as well, unless we're talking about literal hand speed in which case you'd probably have to include one of the smaller guys. Maybe pound-for-pound a guy like Patterson could sneak in there.

I've always liked seeing Laguna up there on these types of lists too.

 

Laguna is in my top 10, without question.

 

Zab Judah

 

With older fighters I'd throw Harada, Rose, Aoki, Sakurai, Mundine Sr, Shibata into the mix to different degrees. Sakurai and Aoki were both blindingly fast, Sakurai especially. Tanabe was very fast too, a very gifted and intriguing what-if fighter.

Nobody has mentioned Nunn either.

 

Tyson, Patterson, Ali, and Louis had the best handspeed of the heavyweights.

 

And even at welterweight he’s up there as far as pure hand speed. Not as fast as Leonard and Mosley obviously, but up there in the mix.

 

Leonard for sure. Honestly I think Pacquiao is faster than prime Mosley but the difference is minimal enough to be negligible (except in this particular thread where we are literally rating handspeed ).

 

I'd agree Pacquiao was faster than Mosley.

Hearns too, IMO.

 

I think Pac punched faster with combinations but I think as far as single shot speed, Mosley’s right hand was just blinding.

 

Mosley had faster hands than Pac

 

I just don't see it, but I admit it is close. I'd legit like to see a scientific measurement of how long it takes a straight right from prime Mosley vs a straight left from prime Pacquiao to reach its target on a super high fps camera, side by side.

 

Rigondeaux had excellent handspeed

 

So did Donaire, but I don't think either are on that level.

 

Donaires hands didn't look fast vs rigondeaux. At all

 

Louis CK

 

JK

Meldrick Taylor

 

Pee Wee Herman calls bullshit.

 

I dunno if he belongs as high as top 10, but Bob Foster had wickedly fast hands.

 

Mosley was faster in general imo.

Pac was just a lot more straight and accurate, but for pure speed... Shane from 98-01 has a decent argument for being #5 on this list.

I think both are top 10 though.

 

Terry Norris had quick hands. I’d say he’s one of the fastest 154 pounders of all time.

 

Tommy Hearns' handspeed is seriously underrated.

 

Robinson too. I don’t think he was as fast as Leonard, but still one of the fastest welters ever.

 

Howard Davis, Zab, and Khan are probably the three fastest non-elite guys in history.

 

Herbie Hide had a damn impressive speed to mediocrity ratio

 

Speed to mediocrity ratio