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.
@kungfukxnnydee 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
😂 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?
???? 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
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
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 ...
Hearns in B?..... the man kod duran in two rounds, in one of the best punches thrown since the camera was invented - took his power from 147 to 190 and still flattened people...
@@MAGACOPP no matter what was his true weight - if you knock people out in the span of 43 pounds - you deserve to be really high on a list like this. A man like benn went up 8 pounds and lost maybe 30% of his punching, so a guy like hearns - koing people in that insane range feels to me not like a no brainer. You can call it weight bully or not - i dont see why he is placed in B
I agree thinking a puncher like him is on B for anything is crazy. But its a list of only the best of the best. So there aren't 20 better punchers in all boxing history
the power of George Foreman makes Ali's victory in Zaire in 1974 even more miraculous. I still can't believe what he did there. I saw it live when I was a child on a small black and white TV
@@thegodfather1924 yea, forman was druged. also, they made ropes more loose than normal. They prepared it for high humidity and heat, because they knew, Foreman didn't have best stamina. He was usually fatiqued after 4-5 rounds.
One very underrated puncher is Jersey Joe Walcott, he knocked out Ezzard Charles with a single left hook when Charles had never even been knocked down before let alone out and that was in 77 fights, and Wallcott did it with best left hook ever thrown. Marciano said that Wallcott was the hardest puncher he ever fought and in all but one of his title matches he had, he knocked down his opponent and he only won one of them and participated in 8, which I think makes him unique in that respect. And he was the oldest ever world champion when he won his belts and that is when he fought Marciano and Charles and Louis, so who knows how powerful, espcially p4p he could have been in his younger days.
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).
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
@@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
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 .
… 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
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.
Love the list. I personally have an issue with - Thomas "The Hitman" Hearns - def should be higher - he used a lot of boxing but his 1 punch power was crazy. HITMAN
The list is a fucking joke. Chavez 2 tiers higher than Duran? Hearns in B? Joe Louis higher than Liston? I mean hardly anything about this list makes sense
@@ewoutstorm4626 totally agree with you. What a shit list. Also Witalii Klitschko and his brother must be in the S tier. They slayed all the division back then, crushing almost every opponents. Yeah yeah, Lennox won that fight, but he would never be able to win the other fight, so he retired.
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
I'm surprised Hagler isn't there. No, he didn't possess one punch KO power, but his punches were hard and wore people down. His 84% KO percentage is among the best ever. I would rate him a C.
@@SoulAlmighty1660 Usyk's bunches seem to have a lot less effect than Hagler's. Hagler hurt Hearns every time he hit him. Usyk has never devastated anybody like that.
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 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+
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.
RJJ is in my top 3 favorites of all time, and even buckled John Ruiz (a heavyweight champ at the time), but Roy got most of his knockouts due to his blinding speed and angles of delivery. He both beat and lost to fighters who hit harder than him (Tarver, James Toney, etc.)
I think an underated puncher is Max Bear, his right hand was so powerful he by accident k illed a man in the ring and he knocked out 85 inch reach (same as Tyson Fury) 263lb all muscle Primo Carnera putting him in hospital for two weeks.
Primo had a suspect chin and probably acromegaly that causes some issue to his durability, dude that has acromegaly typically are chinny like Bigfoot silva
Beterbiev is solid S class. 100% KO ratio as a pro. He went up to cruiserweight during the amateurs and was still knocking people out in under 3 rounds. Dropped Usyk with a body blow as well. Edit: Not many people know this but Gvozdyck was being hailed as the LHW king. He has a large variety of punching arsenal, way more than Bivol. He also has a high IQ in KO set ups. He did everything right against Beterbiev but Artur was simply on another level.
@FloresRain I wouldn't say Bivol really has that much of a variety of a punching arsenal in general. He is a very basic boxer but has mastered those basics like very very few ever have. Everything else I might have to agree with. He always finds a way to finish a fight and though boxers do not fight as often as they used to these days that is still very impressive for a modern day boxer.
@gamersinger5118 I agree 👍 What I've noted is that Bivol has more than 4 different back step variations to his defensive foot work which works wonderfully for managing distance and delivering accurate one 1 and 2 combos.
@@FloresRain Basically he possesses a primary basic skillset but he has utility in how to use them in pretty much any situation. Thus why I consider it a mastery over the basics. Good insight on your part. Bivol is the only man who can beat Beterbiev at his best at htis point but will he? I really hope that fight happens sooner rather than later for both their sakes.
@gamersinger5118 good breakdown. I've been wanting Bivol vs Gvozdyck and Beterbiev for years. These are underrated super fights people are sleeping on. I also thought Kovalev and Ward were gonna fight these guys back then. Such a shame.
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.
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.
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.
Fantastic Tier List my friend. The best on the entire Internet. Golovkin should be placed higher in A or S tier though on just pure raw punching power. He was legit breaking human bones in matches (Broken orbital bone on Brook and 2 Broken ribs on Mackilin) Beat the crap out of Kovalev in sparring during their primes and used to make people piss blood. His nickname was actually dubbed "Superman" up at Big Bear when he first stepped foot on America soil in 2012.
Morrison's Left Hook was a lot faster, shorter and more powerful than Frazier's. Frazier was the more accomplished boxer. But Morrison's Left Hook should rate a few tiers higher. Both Bert Sugar and Jim Lampley said Morrison had the best Left Hook in 90s Heavyweights. Frazier should be lower than Tua.
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
Vitali at C is a joke he sent Shannon Briggs to ICU hes big problem is not being very aggressive. This is definitely a biased ranking, Tyson is not S tier maybe more A tier Briggs also is A tier not E, Anthony Joshua A or B tier. Your criteria keeps changing according to your bias saying people deserve to be at S tier because of what is written then others you dont. I don't think this man knows boxing.
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 🙏🇬🇧🥊
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!
@@MAGACOPP 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.
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.
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
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.
@@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
Corrie Sanders was an incredibly hard puncher and was very unlucky to not be allowed to fight the heavyweights in his era because according to Lennox Lewis they avoided the South African at all costs because he hit so hard. I remember the fight against Vladimir Klitschko when he was passed his best he still knocked him out in the second round and Klitschko went on to say it was the hardest he had ever been hit.
Had Sanders had proper management and promotion, he could have made a lot of waves. He had issues with defense and conditioning, which a top shelf trainer could have remidied.Shame he languished in South Africa.
Sanders knocked Wladimir out, and lost against Vitali, so you got that wrong. But yes, he was a very hard hitter, Hasim Rahman said the same. Sanders was very underrated
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
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.
@@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
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.
I would have Roy Jones on this list at around the A or B tier. I am a huge fan of Naoya but I think S is a little high for him I would put him down to A. I think he is more skilled than hard puncher. A lot of his KOs are of good timing. S tier in my opinion are guys that can drop you with glancing blows and in my opinion Naoya isnt that.
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.
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 don't have a problem with your list except for Marciano....He was NOT a one punch KO guy, he's more like a heavy handed guy who breaks his opponents down piece by piece. I would put him somewhere in the middle or toward the end of the A list. I think him and Jeffries go hand in hand. 2 heavy handed guy who break down their opponents and take away their hearts the longer the fights go on.....
Marciano ko'd more than half his opponents in the first 3 rounds. Only 3 of his opponents were never ko'd by him at all, and they only fought him in the developmental period of his career before he learned how to make his left as deadly as his right. Those who lasted a while with him were usually defensive masters. But there were also a lot of fights he overtrained for, which made him slow and stiff in the opening rounds. He also fought with a bad back, a bad right shoulder, bad right elbow and a bad knuckle on his right fist. He was on antibiotics, recovering from the flu, when he fought Lee Savold.
@@surrealistidealist Everything you say is true. The stats are all true....But the eyes test tell me different. There are 2 kinds of power in boxing. The one punch KO power, a la Hearns, J. Jackson, E. Shaves, etc....And then there's the heavy handed guys who break them down piece by piece, like Rocky. This is who Rocky is if you forget about the stats and just look at his fights....And to tell you the truth, if I was a boxer, I would much rather face a one punch KO guy rather than a guy like Rocky. You don't feel nothing from a one punch KO guy, maybe a little bit humiliated after the fight. But with a guy like Rocky?.....You are in HELL for how many rounds you manage to last. Everything hurts!!!!
Manny would be S tier on speed and volume but certainly not on power. Yes Manny is amazing and one of the best ever, just not the one-punch man everyone on the first 2 tiers here were!.
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.
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
A well reasoned credible listing, kudos! Question: who was the heavyweight boxer, renown for exhibiting the knocking of a bull to its knees with one punch?
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 😂
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.
Foreman and Tyson were scary knockout artists...but the guy whose K.Os scare me the most even when I watch him now, is Julian Jackson. Watch his K.Os but look at the way the opponents drop. The way their bodies dropped is super scary. They were out cold before their bodies hit the floor. Insane!
Hey man, I know we have no ironclad way to measure and compare and this is ultimately a subjective endeavour. I might not agree with a lot of your placements, but I certainly enjoyed the ride. Amazing video.
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.
@@murphyebass7837 Manny steward, freddie roach, chris byrd, ray mercer, axel schulz who fought old Foreman, and Anthony Joshua all said he was one of the hardest punchers ever
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
Absolutely phenomenal doco style video. I never miss a BLTV upload. Please do more! Does anyone know if there's a way to get access to other videos? Do they have patraon or something?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
@kungfukxnnydee 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
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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? 👂🏼
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
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
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@@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
Hearns in B?..... the man kod duran in two rounds, in one of the best punches thrown since the camera was invented - took his power from 147 to 190 and still flattened people...
Hearns was a Weightbully.
He’s the Original Weightbully.
You don’t get props for KOing people 50lbs lighter than you.
@@MAGACOPP no matter what was his true weight - if you knock people out in the span of 43 pounds - you deserve to be really high on a list like this. A man like benn went up 8 pounds and lost maybe 30% of his punching, so a guy like hearns - koing people in that insane range feels to me not like a no brainer. You can call it weight bully or not - i dont see why he is placed in B
This is B of the all time greatest, it’s like saying he’s 15/20 Al all time
I agree thinking a puncher like him is on B for anything is crazy. But its a list of only the best of the best. So there aren't 20 better punchers in all boxing history
@@MAGACOPP Didnt Hearns come in underweight at welter against Leonard! pretty sure that man was just Lanky
the power of George Foreman makes Ali's victory in Zaire in 1974 even more miraculous. I still can't believe what he did there. I saw it live when I was a child on a small black and white TV
it was cheated
@@warrax111😂😂😂😂😂
@@thegodfather1924 yea, forman was druged.
also, they made ropes more loose than normal.
They prepared it for high humidity and heat, because they knew, Foreman didn't have best stamina. He was usually fatiqued after 4-5 rounds.
@@warrax111 foreman was the one that thought he was drugged and later just said it was an excuse for his anger at the time for losing
@@JashXD any quotes? links? Proof? I would like to look at it.
One very underrated puncher is Jersey Joe Walcott, he knocked out Ezzard Charles with a single left hook when Charles had never even been knocked down before let alone out and that was in 77 fights, and Wallcott did it with best left hook ever thrown. Marciano said that Wallcott was the hardest puncher he ever fought and in all but one of his title matches he had, he knocked down his opponent and he only won one of them and participated in 8, which I think makes him unique in that respect. And he was the oldest ever world champion when he won his belts and that is when he fought Marciano and Charles and Louis, so who knows how powerful, espcially p4p he could have been in his younger days.
You are right, he should on here!
Walcott was great a master of the sweet science
👏👏👏 glad to see Walcott getting his respect man is criminally underrated.
the jersey joe shuffle
Good fucking call, first man to knock Marciano down and beat him up. Jersey Joe was who Rocky says hit hardest too
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).
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
Ernie Shaver is the hardest hitter. His peers Ali, Foreman, Frazier etc. I meant Ernie Shaver, in person. In person he was a very nice man.
It seems even Stallone was on his victims list, during the Rocky III retakes 🙂
@@Falcone-en4wl They are both nice GUUYS!!!!
A lot of biased from his peers
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
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.
Love the list.
I personally have an issue with - Thomas "The Hitman" Hearns - def should be higher - he used a lot of boxing but his 1 punch power was crazy. HITMAN
Plus it carried up the higher weight classes!
word. nobody did to Duran what Hearns did to him.
Purely based of power still one of the biggest hitters on this list p4p
The list is a fucking joke. Chavez 2 tiers higher than Duran? Hearns in B? Joe Louis higher than Liston? I mean hardly anything about this list makes sense
@@ewoutstorm4626 totally agree with you. What a shit list. Also Witalii Klitschko and his brother must be in the S tier. They slayed all the division back then, crushing almost every opponents. Yeah yeah, Lennox won that fight, but he would never be able to win the other fight, so he retired.
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
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.
I'm surprised Hagler isn't there. No, he didn't possess one punch KO power, but his punches were hard and wore people down. His 84% KO percentage is among the best ever. I would rate him a C.
I think that has more to do with iq. usyk also wears down his opponents but his power like usaid isnt the best
@@SoulAlmighty1660 Usyk's bunches seem to have a lot less effect than Hagler's. Hagler hurt Hearns every time he hit him. Usyk has never devastated anybody like that.
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 😭
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.
One fighter with crazy knockout power who I'm surprised isn't on this list is Roy Jones Jr.
Exactly 💯 bro
RJJ is in my top 3 favorites of all time, and even buckled John Ruiz (a heavyweight champ at the time), but Roy got most of his knockouts due to his blinding speed and angles of delivery.
He both beat and lost to fighters who hit harder than him (Tarver, James Toney, etc.)
Hearns KO Duran is the single hardest punch I’ve ever seen at ANY weight
I think an underated puncher is Max Bear, his right hand was so powerful he by accident k illed a man in the ring and he knocked out 85 inch reach (same as Tyson Fury) 263lb all muscle Primo Carnera putting him in hospital for two weeks.
forgot about Hurricane Carter
Yeah. Baer should probably be in the list. Not the best technical boxer but had tremendous power.
@@TastelessSoftware I mean compared to some of the others on this list he was a technical marvel
Agreed
Primo had a suspect chin and probably acromegaly that causes some issue to his durability, dude that has acromegaly typically are chinny like Bigfoot silva
Beterbiev is solid S class. 100% KO ratio as a pro. He went up to cruiserweight during the amateurs and was still knocking people out in under 3 rounds. Dropped Usyk with a body blow as well.
Edit: Not many people know this but Gvozdyck was being hailed as the LHW king. He has a large variety of punching arsenal, way more than Bivol. He also has a high IQ in KO set ups. He did everything right against Beterbiev but Artur was simply on another level.
@FloresRain
I wouldn't say Bivol really has that much of a variety of a punching arsenal in general. He is a very basic boxer but has mastered those basics like very very few ever have. Everything else I might have to agree with. He always finds a way to finish a fight and though boxers do not fight as often as they used to these days that is still very impressive for a modern day boxer.
@gamersinger5118 I agree 👍
What I've noted is that Bivol has more than 4 different back step variations to his defensive foot work which works wonderfully for managing distance and delivering accurate one 1 and 2 combos.
@@FloresRain
Basically he possesses a primary basic skillset but he has utility in how to use them in pretty much any situation. Thus why I consider it a mastery over the basics. Good insight on your part. Bivol is the only man who can beat Beterbiev at his best at htis point but will he? I really hope that fight happens sooner rather than later for both their sakes.
@gamersinger5118 good breakdown. I've been wanting Bivol vs Gvozdyck and Beterbiev for years. These are underrated super fights people are sleeping on. I also thought Kovalev and Ward were gonna fight these guys back then. Such a shame.
Beterbiev is a natural-born-killer in the ring with ferocious punching power in both hands!
The Execution of Roberto Duran by Thomas Hearns was scary af
Hearn’s most scariest knockout in my opinion has to be Pipino Cuevas
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.
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.
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.
Fantastic Tier List my friend. The best on the entire Internet.
Golovkin should be placed higher in A or S tier though on just pure raw punching power. He was legit breaking human bones in matches
(Broken orbital bone on Brook and 2 Broken ribs on Mackilin) Beat the crap out of Kovalev in sparring during their primes and used to make people piss blood.
His nickname was actually dubbed "Superman" up at Big Bear when he first stepped foot on America soil in 2012.
Golovkin should easily be in A tier 100%
terrible list
Morrison's Left Hook was a lot faster, shorter and more powerful than Frazier's. Frazier was the more accomplished boxer. But Morrison's Left Hook should rate a few tiers higher. Both Bert Sugar and Jim Lampley said Morrison had the best Left Hook in 90s Heavyweights. Frazier should be lower than Tua.
100% Agreed!
facts
Tua never rised up to the occasion he had 1 shot and lost it. Sometimes in boxing that all you get. David Tua blew it.
Joe Frazier’s Left Hook Is The Best Left Hook In The Business.
@@RobRivShowsLive01 Morrison's Left was faster, shorter/compact and more powerful than Frazier's.
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
Vitali at C is a joke he sent Shannon Briggs to ICU hes big problem is not being very aggressive. This is definitely a biased ranking, Tyson is not S tier maybe more A tier Briggs also is A tier not E, Anthony Joshua A or B tier. Your criteria keeps changing according to your bias saying people deserve to be at S tier because of what is written then others you dont. I don't think this man knows boxing.
Cry😂
BLTV always delivers with the content... Great.
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!
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
@@MAGACOPP 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.
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.
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.
Can't disagree with any of your rankings on this list. Splendid video BLTV Extra!
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
Corrie Sanders was an incredibly hard puncher and was very unlucky to not be allowed to fight the heavyweights in his era because according to Lennox Lewis they avoided the South African at all costs because he hit so hard. I remember the fight against Vladimir Klitschko when he was passed his best he still knocked him out in the second round and Klitschko went on to say it was the hardest he had ever been hit.
Earnie Shavers hit stronger than anyone
Had Sanders had proper management and promotion, he could have made a lot of waves. He had issues with defense and conditioning, which a top shelf trainer could have remidied.Shame he languished in South Africa.
He knocked out his younger brother in round 2 and then Vitali fought him and took all the belts
Sanders knocked Wladimir out, and lost against Vitali, so you got that wrong. But yes, he was a very hard hitter, Hasim Rahman said the same. Sanders was very underrated
I absolutely love this channel. God tier editing. Boxing needs you, BLTV!
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
Great list man. Thought that GGG was pretty low and I wish you talked about Superman. Didnt think he would be S tier.
Great work! This video was awesome!
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.
@@KorithStoneheart I didn't say he should be over Rocky. Just in the list.
AWESOME VIDEO! Loved it keep it up
I would have Roy Jones on this list at around the A or B tier. I am a huge fan of Naoya but I think S is a little high for him I would put him down to A. I think he is more skilled than hard puncher. A lot of his KOs are of good timing. S tier in my opinion are guys that can drop you with glancing blows and in my opinion Naoya isnt that.
EXACTLY!!!
He's S-... And the only Asian on the list ..
At 13:54 it was audio of Roy Jones vs Virgil Hill while showing Gerald McClellan highlights - I remember that call so well!
the amount of knowledge to make video like this is increadible. props to BLTV team ☺
What about Ron Lyle. He is often overlooked because he was in the same era as Foreman, Frazier and Shavers. But he could punch as hard as them
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 don't have a problem with your list except for Marciano....He was NOT a one punch KO guy, he's more like a heavy handed guy who breaks his opponents down piece by piece. I would put him somewhere in the middle or toward the end of the A list. I think him and Jeffries go hand in hand. 2 heavy handed guy who break down their opponents and take away their hearts the longer the fights go on.....
Marciano ko'd more than half his opponents in the first 3 rounds. Only 3 of his opponents were never ko'd by him at all, and they only fought him in the developmental period of his career before he learned how to make his left as deadly as his right.
Those who lasted a while with him were usually defensive masters. But there were also a lot of fights he overtrained for, which made him slow and stiff in the opening rounds. He also fought with a bad back, a bad right shoulder, bad right elbow and a bad knuckle on his right fist. He was on antibiotics, recovering from the flu, when he fought Lee Savold.
@@surrealistidealist Everything you say is true. The stats are all true....But the eyes test tell me different. There are 2 kinds of power in boxing. The one punch KO power, a la Hearns, J. Jackson, E. Shaves, etc....And then there's the heavy handed guys who break them down piece by piece, like Rocky. This is who Rocky is if you forget about the stats and just look at his fights....And to tell you the truth, if I was a boxer, I would much rather face a one punch KO guy rather than a guy like Rocky. You don't feel nothing from a one punch KO guy, maybe a little bit humiliated after the fight. But with a guy like Rocky?.....You are in HELL for how many rounds you manage to last. Everything hurts!!!!
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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.
This is quality as usual, thanks!!!
My guy put tank over jack Dempsey 😂 out of his f*ckn mind
A lil unrelated but absolutely love the music used in the video, it made for an amazing aesthetic in my opinion so please keep it up!
Back at it with the quality content big up boxing legends
I’m very happy to see a great channel like this rate
A pound for pound list with no Manny Is straight criminal 😕
Gay
Also I think he should've put Ibeabuchi too, that guy was a beast during his prime
Manny would be S tier on speed and volume but certainly not on power. Yes Manny is amazing and one of the best ever, just not the one-punch man everyone on the first 2 tiers here were!.
@@ironwill8354 blasphemy! Have u seen his fights when he was still young?? Who other boxers that are once flyweight that KOs welterweights??
Manny was weak
This video, with the drum n bass in the back🤌 made my day.
Sam Langford a absolute legend
From then narration to the music i love your videos!
Bro to me Tyson and Wilder are the most powerful literally knocking people 40 to 50 pounds more than them
Great video. I love the music.
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!
That was a great video, excellent format, perfect commentary, thank you!
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
Some of your best work 👌
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.
A well reasoned credible listing, kudos! Question: who was the heavyweight boxer, renown for exhibiting the knocking of a bull to its knees with one punch?
where's Hagler?
Fr, an absolute tank. Best middleweight of all time imo.
Marvin is in "Marvelous" class.
Bro couldn’t just be happy with the list
@@matthewcampbell8586hearns is better
@@Bradhasabigdick Then how did hagler beat the brakes off him?
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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
@@im-a-mexican-knockedout-snorin Inoue fought World Champions 😂 Gerdiva Davis fights BUMS
Awesome video
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.
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Foreman and Tyson were scary knockout artists...but the guy whose K.Os scare me the most even when I watch him now, is Julian Jackson. Watch his K.Os but look at the way the opponents drop. The way their bodies dropped is super scary. They were out cold before their bodies hit the floor. Insane!
Hey man, I know we have no ironclad way to measure and compare and this is ultimately a subjective endeavour. I might not agree with a lot of your placements, but I certainly enjoyed the ride. Amazing video.
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.
Top 5 IMO: Ernie Shavers, Max Baer, Sonny Liston, George Foreman, Sam McVey.
Randall Bailey missing, Ibeabuchi missing, Tua should be S tier, its a few guys who could freeze you mid air in here so i think some guys underrated
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Tua and Ike should be S+
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How the heck is Wladimir Klitschko a D? He hit like a truck.
Everyone in this list hit like a truck tho 🙄
He wasn’t a ko artist. He was a boxer. Happy to point out many many fights.
vitali had the higher KO percentage, he's the one who should be higher
@@murphyebass7837 Manny steward, freddie roach, chris byrd, ray mercer, axel schulz who fought old Foreman, and Anthony Joshua all said he was one of the hardest punchers ever
@@WitsEnds ko percentage of what though, he fought a serious amount of bums
Nobody's going to mention the final fantasy 7 victory music at the end? Lmao. Loved it.
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
6 seconds in the video and this my favorite channel or the week.
Unless i missed it, I'm surprised Gerry Cooney wasn't on that list. He hit incredibly hard as well
The Final Fantasy victory theme song at the end made me laugh so hard. 😂❤
How is Ricardo "El Finito" López not on this list?
Probably because he never considered himself a KO artist despite his percentage
Outstanding List Thank You
Ennie Shavers is near the top on my list as far as punching power
What happened to Ron lyle...? Hes a big banger....
I think Earnie Shavers is the hardest puncher in boxing, along with George Foreman and Julian Jackson.
Absolutely phenomenal doco style video. I never miss a BLTV upload. Please do more! Does anyone know if there's a way to get access to other videos? Do they have patraon or something?
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%
Great content and presentation. 🇦🇺 😊
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.
“Don’t get scared ladies I’m just in shape” is a classic 😂
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