Which punch was the hardest?

Which of these punches were harder?

 

Although Ibeabuchi's left hookercut officially didn't knock out Byrd, I still consider it a knockout punch since Byrd was in no condition to continue.

 

Lewis-Rahman!

Sounded like a shot-gun!

 

Peter/Williams.

 

"Ike Ibeabuchi KTFO punch of Byrd"

that punch doesn't even exist:notallthere:

 

I'd go with Peter on Williams.

 

Peter vs Williams was most brutal.

I have no doubt that the shot Lewis KO'd Rahman with was a harder shot though. Lewis hit harder than Peter for sure.

 

Tyson's right hand on Botha was arguably harder than all of them.

From that list however, I voted for Lummox's right hand on Rachman.

 

I disagree. Lummox-Rachman was a far more brutal KO. The impact(like Sly said it sounded like a gun shot) plus the fact that blood was gushing outta Rockhead's mouth, made it a more brutal KO.

 

Williams has at best a suspect jaw. He made Henry Akinwande look like a heavyweight Julian Jackson. Lennox landed a much more concussive bomb. When it landed on Rahman in the rematch, it looked like Rahman's head EXPLODED!

Tyson's shot on Botha made him do the el foldo, but I'd say that Tyson on John Alderson was harder. Alderson was able to talk it sitting, but that shot rocketed his head back like 3ft or at least that's how it looked.

Heck, for one good shot, look no further than Tommy Morrison on Razor Ruddock. Ruddock hit the ground like he'd gotten a cow-killer airgun blast in the head. The canvas woke him up.

 

It wasn't officially but Byrd certainly didn't know what he was doing or where he was the moment he got up. He was drooling all over the place. IMO he was KTFO.

 

Williams perhaps has a suspect chin but the punch landed with a huge impact.

 

Anton Chigurh K01 Tommy Morrison.

 

Terrible poll. Ike caught Byrd when Byrd had his mouth open. If Sonny Liston or George Foreman had caught Byrd like that, Byrd would have needed serious medical attention. And Sam Peter? The left hook isn't even his best shot, and Williams never had a chin. There are so many better punches than those two:

• Jack Johnson's 'possum overhand right against Ketchel
• Joe Frazier's 15th-round left hook against Ali in 1971
• The shot Jack Dempsey caught Jack Sharkey with when Sharkey was complaining about a low blow; Dempsey was more of a combination knock-out artist than a one-punch fighter, but that was his last, great punch, kind of like Robinson against Fullmer
• Marciano distorting Jersey Joe Walcott's face in that famous photo
• Foreman-Moorer

 

That wasn't even the knockout shot. Just a great photo caught at the perfect time.

 

Half the punches on the poll weren't knockout punches, so I made nearly half the ones in my list non-knockout punches, to match.

 

I never said that this poll is about the hardest shot ever. I just listed a few punches and started a poll about which of these punches was the hardest. Both Ibeabuchi's punch vs Byrd and Peter's punch vs Williams were extremely hard. Just look at how Byrd's had snaps back.

 

I disagree. Ibeabuchi and Peter are not all-time-great punchers, and those weren't all-time-great punches. The only reason Ibeabuchi-Byrd looked like a great shot was that Byrd's mouth was open. If a top puncher had hit Byrd like that, he would have needed serious medical attention.

 

So you are saying this wasn't a hard punch? Just listen to the sound of the punch. Also look at Byrd's head carefully.

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Not even close.

People debated whether or not Moorer was faking it after it happened. However big it was, it didn't look that big and it's not like Foreman was any bigger of a puncher than Peter at that time. And who questioned whether or not Williams was faking it?

 

No. I'm saying that while it was a very good, solid punch it's nowhere near as good a punch as the one Shavers landed on Holmes. That punch was so damaging because Byrd wasn't ready for it at all. He used to often leave his mouth open when he fought, which was incrediby stupid. If Earnie Shavers had landed a good punch on an open-mouthed Byrd, not only would he not get up, but he might never fight again.

Only idiots thought the Foreman-Moorer knockout wasn't real. It wasn't fast, but Foreman had every ounce of his weight behind it. Power's the last thing to go, and it was a perfectly-timed punch, one of the best Foreman ever threw. His speed was nearly gone, and the only way he could land his best punch was using his brain.

Williams himself said that if a kid like Peter could beat him, he should retire. Sam Peter would probably have trouble knocking out a prime Williams, who was pretty chinny then. Peter is nothing resembling the puncher Foreman was, even in Foreman's second career.

 

Foreman-Moorer-didn't look like that hard of a shot. George did get full extension though.

Moorer just can take a clean hit. The Moorer KO by Tua didn't look that hard either, just flush.

 

To someone who doesn't follow boxing, it doesn't look like that hard a shot.

 

The Rachman KO is one of my all time favourites...his face contorted like those 'jello-heads' do in crappy martial arts films and he was out before he hit the canvas.

Gets my vote :clap:

 

jones-serwano

the guy fell like a tree then his mouth was hanging open and eyes rolled up in the back of his head

 

You are just a troll trying to annoy people. it doesn't matter what you think of Inbeanuchi, the punch he landed on Byrd was a MONSTEROUS punch. It landed with huge velocity and weight behind it. The power of the punch would have knocked out almost anyone. It would have probably killed you.

 

I'm a troll because I'm not an Ibeabuchi nuthugger? He was NOT a huge puncher, and that wasn't a very good punch.

It didn't even knock out Chris Byrd, and he had his mouth open. If Byrd had been properly prepared, he probably wouldn't have even been knocked down.

The only people Ibeabuchi's been punching recently is hookers and psych-ward guards.

Basically, if Ibeabuchi had been a big puncher, Tua wouldn't have opened up against him. Look at how Tua fought against any other big puncher - he hid in his shell. He hid against Lewis. He hid against a tyro Maskaev. He hid against Rahman, except after the bell, when Rahman's guard was down, when he landed his only meaningful punch of their two fights, which otherwise, Rahman DOMINATED.

Look, it's not trolling to say that Ike Ibeabuchi might not have been one of the top 10 fighters of all time. I think that while he was a good heavyweight, he wasn't one of the top 50 heavyweights of all time. Neither was David Tua. Hasim Rahman and John Ruiz were better than both of them.

 

Listen troll, Ibeabuchi perhaps wasn't a big puncher, the punch he landed on Byrd was a MOSTER punch. Sometimes average punchers land huge punches. :dunno:

 

No, it wasn't. The only reason it did so much damage was that Byrd had his mouth open. It's stupid to say that it was a better shot than the one Shavers landed on Holmes. :doh:

 

Does anyone agree with Rubio that the punch Ibeabuchi landed on Byrd wasn't a big punch?