Top 5 favorite PUNCHERS of all time

Self explanatory. List your top 5 all time favorite punchers.

Mine:

1. Tyson
2. Jackson
3. Foster
4. Rosario
5. Corrales

 

1. Alexis Arguello - the most beautiful to watch... Every punch exactly how it's meant to be thrown with crisp accuracy and perfect weight

2. Bob Foster - the jab was a beauty, the right hand was a pole-ax but the best punch of all, completely contrary to a tall man with long arms was a vicious, fast left hook that was usually waiting for whatever poor bastard had managed to slip the right hand

3. Thomas Hearns - All of his punches were dangerous but that long right hand just looked so great when he'd get it home

4. Joe Louis - pretty much the heavyweight Arguello... Pristine punching technique ... Looks brilliant even on scratchy, fuzzy bad-angle black and white reels from 70+ years ago

5. Julian Jackson - with a handful of exceptions, his comp was terrible but watching him leave them unconscious before they hit the ground was horrifying and amazing all at once

Honorable mention:

Mike Tyson - As good as it gets in terms of combining outstanding hand speed with concise, direct punching... Threw the uppercut as well as anyone's ever thrown it

Terry Norris - not quite the banger that these other guys were but he threw beautiful punches... A wonderful offensive fighter to see even if all I ever did was trash him for not fighting anyone good his own size

Archie Moore - Stylistically shared some things with James Toney but a far harder puncher

Don Curry - closer to a Norris than these other guys but he threw crisp, hurtful punches with great precision

Joe Frazier - the right hand was more like a distraction (though it was decent to the body) but when he'd get warmed up and start doubling up that hook to the body and head, it was beautiful ... Everybody knew it was coming but none of them could stop it except Big George and even needed to shove the guy backwards first

 

No order....

Marciano: Could slip inside a jab and lay a guy our or just bludgeon away to get the KO. Hardest hitting 185lb guy of all time.

Joe Louis: fabulous easy technique, short right hands were really easy on the eye, methodical, efficient, easy puncher.

Alexis Arguello: Very graceful, easy to watch, legitimate bomber with the right hand, would have fucked up a lot of 126lbrs.

Jimmy Wilde: Midget who hit very hard with either hand.

Stanley Ketchel: gets my Romanza vote. Hard to know if he was worth a fuck but he did drop a HW Champ. I was going to go for Julian Jackson but his best KO's include Norris and Graham, both of whom were a bit suss.

 

3 gringos^

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Go and suck on some fat black cock you disgusting asiatic slime.

 

Can't really hate him on listing Marciano.

Rocky was indeed a fantastic puncher.

Woulda been way too small for the likes of Ali, Foreman, Tyson, Holmes, Lewis, ect....

But an incredible powerhouse for a 185 pounder.

 

Yeah not too many dudes between 180-200 could've handled Marciano ... Guy was ferocious

 

Agreed with Xplosive, you have to take his size into account, he was a fucking tiny heavyweight, and thus a real powerhouse for his size.

 

Marciano vs Chavez Junior. Woulda loved to have seen it.

 

Tyson
Hearns
Joe Louis
Arguello
Diego Corrales

 

Its fucked up isn't it. Marciano would have had NOTHING on that fat fuck by fight-night, in terms of weight. Fatty would have had 5 lbs at least, an inch or two in height, and a few inches in reach, and not many more amateur fights, and Marciano would have broken him.

I liked Marciano as he wasn't like Provo Powerful....he slipped inside to land that short right on Walcott...and when he couldn't land clean on La Starza and Charles, he just kept bludgeoning away.

Also, no fighter trained power like he did. He had special bags and everything, and used to bash them like they were nothing. Jimmy Wilde used to work as a coal miner and in the booths at county fairs.

I was going to go with Ruben Olivares too ......or somebody like Julian KO Letterlough, as it says "Favourite" puncher. Some people like that Touch of Sleep punching style, others prefer an Ernie Shaver sort of bludgeoning. Some guys punch and look like they are trying really hard, others just move their hands and some dude is out.

Kelly Pavlik had it in his pomp. Hit a guy with an inconsequential looking 1-2 and just freeze him. Seeing guys just hang there, like in suspended animation....effortless short-circuiting.

Mickey Ward could be a "favourite"....he had snake-bite power in the left downstairs. He could have stopped anyone he landed his money shot on. If he caught Floyd with the same left hook he did Gatti, its possible it would have had the same effect. Very very few guys have that sort of power, that it is telling against any level of fighter they can land it on. Some guys rack up these KO streaks and their "power" runs out against the real top caliber fighters. Not Ward, I genuinely believe he could have hurt anyone with that shot.

Mpush Mkambi had that sort of power, as did one of his victims, Ensley Bingham. Not a shred of talent beyond their left hooks but the could have beaten anyone they landed them on. Lance Williams too.

 

1) Louis....every frame just seems like a engineering diagram for perfect punch mechanics
2) Arguello....similar, especially the right hand
3) McCallum & Toney.....i group them together because in my mind they have the same style of punch delivery, about the transference of weight between the feet more than torque through the hips. Their fight is very beautiful.
5) Freddie Little....based entirely on two rounds on youtube. He seems to fight like a ye olde school guy from 1862, its fascinating to watch, just trying to figure out how his style works. He makes the right hand such a threat he barely has to do anything else

 

As for the topic, my top 5 are

Tyson - Unbelievable combo of speed, power, and accuracy, with both hands, with some of the hardest/fastest combos I've ever seen.

Chico - Incredible single punch power with inside hooks. His trademark left hook had KO power with only about 6 inches of travel, it was crazy.

Morales - He was an excellent puncher at 122, and his power even carried up fairly well to 126 and 130. Little stick arms, but explosive power.

Joe Louis - Superb, crisp punching technique.

Hearns - What can you say? Just a fucking atom bomb of a right hand.

 

Before his career is over, I think Kov might make my top 5 favorite puncher list.

As it stands right now, I have him at 6 behind Corrales.

 

Weight can be deceptive though.

Chavez Junior would have weighed just as much cause he's an outta shape fuck.

Rocky was a ROCK SOLID 185, not an outta shape 185 like Junior.

Marciano would have ended Junior's life basically whenever he chose to put his foot on the gas.

 

One guy who really deserves a mention.........looked like a starved waif, had absolute great power and technique and not too much more besides.

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Another whitey

 

Or he could have broken every bone in his arms and face.......or laid him out clean, no bruises, with one shot. That's what I like about Marciano...there is this impression he just ground guys down, he did, but not when he didn't have to. When he got inside, he could take dudes clean out.

 

Mpush Makabi and Ensley Bingham are both black.

 

You gotta go with Yory Boy Campas then....king of the 1 inch punch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HftkYwkDZvg#t=490



https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Dy8Lu6KPKhQ#t=551

 

Haha good call on Mpush Makambi, that guy could bang. Didn't he do the same British tour that Winky Wright did in the 90's and beat up the same guys (Dodson, Bingham and Foster)? Bingo could whack too for sure.

 

You and I follow boxing. :bears:

Yep.......Winky outpointed Bingham but he stopped Dodson and Foster {everyone stopped Foster ::} and Makambi blew out Bingham in 2 rounds and KO'd Dodson twice too.

Ironically, he was KO'd by Brian Magee....himself a noted victim of punchers.

 

Exactly, there is such thing as useless weight, as I've said many times before. One guy being heavier than the other doesn't mean he's bigger automatically, it's not quite that simple.

 

Functional Weight....A Scientific Theory, courtesy of the labs at HBO.

 

So would the local mortician

 

Marciano was a guy who boiled down to 185 I think, if he was fighting today he'd probably be a cruiserweight who came in at 210, rock hard.

 

Not REED's Favorites, Necessarily, but Standouts that Have Yet to Be Mentioned...

1. George Foreman - Sure, it was Largely Attributed to him Being a BIG Heavyweight for his Day, Nonetheless, Dude's Power was AWESOME to Behold...KO'ing Elite Level Competition Since the '68 Olympics...Fans of Today Can't Appreciate Just How HIGHLY Regarded "Smokin'" Joe Frazier was, Coming Into his Bout w/Foreman...2 Rounds Later, a FREAK Emerged....

No One Ever DOMINATED Frazier, like Foreman Did...No One Ever Embarrassed Frazier IN THE RING, like Foreman Did...1st Guy to BEAT Frazier, Nevermind KO him...1 of Only 2 Guys to Stop George Chuvalo...Wiped his Ass w/Ken Norton, when that MEANT Something...The Come-from-Behind, Improbable KO of Moorer, as an Old, FAT Guy...

George Foreman Could PUNCH, Period...It was POWER that Bailed him Out vs. Ron Lyle...

2. Naseem Hamed - Began his Career as a Super BANTAM, After Having NOT Demonstrated Appreciable Power as an Ammy...Became Arguably THE Best "Little Guy" Puncher EVER...

Unorthodox Punching Angles, Handspeed and a VERY Thick Lower Body was the Root...Looooove him or Hate Him, Motherfucker Could CRACK...





REED:up:

 

1- Tyson
2- Hearns
3- Jackson
4- Trinidad
5- Corrales

 

Yeah I'm actually very surprised Big George hasn't been mentioned, he's a pretty classic puncher in boxing history. That weird, effortless, arm punch power.

Both Frazier and Big George make my top 10, or in this case honourable mentions, both great punchers in their own way.

 

Good call on the ones who mentioned Hamed. He had true one punch KO power.