'Weakest Hitting' Heavyweight Champions

[dempseyfire]

Those lists have all sorts of problems.

[Nile4000]

Greg Page was a very, underrated hitter.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Corbett.

[Nile4000]

John Ruiz.

[yancey]

Too bad we can't ask Ingo and 'Enery about Patterson's punching power.

You think Tunney would have made as big an impression on them?

[The End]

Clay's power getting a little underrated here

[DaveyMac]

What a load of crap.

[Heartbreak_Kid79]

I'm amazed that Foreman isn't touted as 'the hardest hitter' in the pre 1982 list

[palooka]

Willard and Fitzsimmons didn't ought to be the list; Mike Weaver and BoneCrusher Smith surely hit harder.

[palooka]

I'm not sold on Dempsey hitting harder than Foreman at all; there was talk of loaded gloves for the Willard bout. If Foreman had used loaded gloves he'd have killed someone outright.

[Syntax Error]

Punch for punch, Bruno probably hit the hardest

Of the post '78 bunch

Harder than Mike Tyson or Lennox Lewis?

I'd have to disagree with that: Frank Bruno never even floored a world class opponent, let alone knocked one out.

All truly great punchers have a some world class scalps on their resumes.

[palooka]

Walcott at number 15 out of 31 champions? He was more than a median hitter, he hit terrible with either hand.

(I appreciate it is difficult making lists like this).

[palooka]

Walcott at number 15 out of 31 champions? He was more than a median hitter, he hit terrible with either hand.

(I appreciate it is difficult making lists like this).

Look at Jersey Joe Walcott a little closer.

From the start of his career thru August 1946 {Age; 32 years, 7 months}

He was 41-9-2 {27 KO's}, that was a 66% KO-Rate.

Cheers for replying; the bare statistics do not make a concrete argument always. Walcott dropped and hurt many excellent fighters; the hook that he flattened Charles with was brutal; knocking out or stopping 2 thirds of the men he faced is some going; he boxed some good men.

[Vladimir5555]

Chris Byrd

[bodyblow999]

Tommy Burns? He was a big puncher. Only one guy went the distance with him as champ until Johnson.

[Ambling Alp II]

Actually, the 1982 to now list is not bad. The first list obviously total BS.