Who are the biggest one punch KO artists in each division ever?

[Chepppaaa]

HW ?
CW Kudryashov (nobody knows about the guy, but i have never seen somebody which such a devasting punching power at C)
LH Stevenson (dawson fight says it all, rare punching power)
SM ?
MW Jackson (the biggest puncher ever)
SW Jackson (the biggest puncher ever)
WW Hearns (all he did was KO at ww)
SL Bailey (the #3 overall p4p ever)
LW Valero (the #2 overall p4p ever)
SF Valero (the #2 overall p4p ever)
FW Prince (83 % KO ratio)
SB Prince (a terror at sb)
BW ?
SF Galaxy (just him come to my mind)
FW Pacquiao (left people flat on their back, rare power)
LW ?
MW Lopez (tremendous power)


heavyweight is hard to judge. people say foreman and shavers all day, but they seem to forget that somebody like klitschko has so much weight on both of them and weight has a lot to do with punching power. maybe tua, i dont know)

lower weights its also hard, who is there besides the obvious prince, pacquiao and galaxy?

[Grant]

BW...Olivares?

[Chepppaaa]

BW...Olivares?

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[jezzamundo]

Julian Jackson wasn't a super middleweight, he campaigned at 154lb and 160lb. He was, however, a fearsome puncher and one of the biggest p4p hitters ever.

[Chepppaaa]

Julian Jackson wasn't a super middleweight, he campaigned at 154lb and 160lb. He was, however, a fearsome puncher and one of the biggest p4p hitters ever.

right

[bigjack]

Julian Jackson wasn't a super middleweight, he campaigned at 154lb and 160lb. He was, however, a fearsome puncher and one of the biggest p4p hitters ever.

He's not listed as supermiddle.

[jezzamundo]

He was prior to the edit.

[bigjack]

He was prior to the edit.

Fair enough,i hadn't seen it before that

[crusader]

Admittedly my knowledge of past generations isn't estimable, but there's no one I can name off the top of my head who strikes me as P4P a harder puncher than Jackson.

[bigjack]

Admittedly my knowledge of past generations isn't estimable, but there's no one I can name off the top of my head who strikes me as P4P a harder puncher than Jackson.

x2 never seen anyone put so many people to sleep with 1 punch

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A few gap fillers:-

Heavyweight ~ Earnie Shavers (no brainer).

Cruiserweight ~ Herbie Hide (fearsome puncher).

Light middleweight ~ John Mugabi (destructive is putting it mildly).

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Cruiserweight ~ Herbie Hide (fearsome puncher).

Herbie Hide was never a truly world-rated cruiserweight, but I suspect he could have been if he hadn't chosen to compete as a heavyweight instead. That being said, the calibre of opposition that he KO'd below 200lbs was fairly poor.

Surely Evander Holyfield was the biggest puncher in cruiserweight history, because his KO’s over James Tillis (technically a heavyweight), Carlos De Leon, Dwight Muhammad Qawi Ossie Ocasio, Ricky Parkey & Henry Tillman were really quite impressive (as they were the very best the division had to offer)

Good points.

Although Hide can bang with the best of them, his record pales into insignificance compared to Holyfield's.

[palooka]

I'd have Olivares or Zarate at bantam weight and Gomez at super bantam, he was 32/0/1 with 32 KOs before he moved out of the division.

[palooka]

Admittedly my knowledge of past generations isn't estimable, but there's no one I can name off the top of my head who strikes me as P4P a harder puncher than Jackson.

x2 never seen anyone put so many people to sleep with 1 punch

Put me there too, he hit frighteningly hard with either hand and has knockouts with every punch in the book, raw power and an instinctive eye.

[fanman]

Hw - foreman
Cr - haye
Lhw - foster
Smw - jones
Mw - jackson
Lmw - hearns
Ww - trinidad
Lww - packo
Lw - duran
Sfw - freitas
Fw - saddler

[bigjack]

Hw - foreman
Cr - haye
Lhw - foster
Smw - jones
Mw - jackson
Lmw - hearns
Ww - trinidad
Lww - packo
Lw - duran
Sfw - freitas
Fw - saddler

Some seriously big punchers there pal but how many scored regular 1 punch ko's where they are down for the full ten,Jackson did,often

[jezzamundo]

Not the best boxer, but I think the biggest SMW puncher ever is probably Danny Green. Unfortunately we never got to see him land flush against elite-chinned opposition in the division, but he scored a lot of single punch knockdowns and KOs and carried his punch to light heavyweight. At cruiserweight his power was respectable, considering he was facing guys naturally 20lb heavier than he was - that is when he wasn't fighting at 'Dannyweight'!

[Bobbyptsd]

This probably won't be a popular view, but I believe Lennox Lewis hits harder shot for shot than anybody, if we're just talking about one punch.

[Chepppaaa]

This probably won't be a popular view, but I believe Lennox Lewis hits harder shot for shot than anybody, if we're just talking about one punch.

thats why the heavyweight division is so damn hard to rate.

you got boxers like foremon, who had tremendous power, but were very robotic and often didnt put the whole body weight into the punch
than you got lewis, who were way heavier than foremon and on top technicly better and therefore, put his whole body weight into punches, i mean his hook on rahman, this was brutal, look at foremon punching frazier, but frazier kept getting up, when lewis hit rahman, rahman was on another atmosphere. lewis his harder than foremon

than you got guys like tua, was at his peak punch like a truck, even prime samuel peter.... i mean...

who can exactly say who had for sure more 1 punch power

all prime powerwise

tua 253 pounds
peter 250 pounds
lewis 246 pounds
klitschko 245 pounds

compared to

all prime powerwise

shavers 220 pounds
foremon 224 pounds

its tough, so they have around a 25 pounds advantage and people want to tell me that it aint matter and foremon still punches harder than lewis or tua? i dont think so.

[Chepppaaa]

It’s really tough to identify the biggest puncher in super-middleweight history!

There were quite a few so-called big punchers that briefly "passed through" the division, but none that I can think of that actually competed there in the long-term.

The vast majority of Nigel Benn's world title fights were fought in that division, but apart from Gerald McClellan, I struggle to pick any hugely impressive KO's over any big names (as he was a bigger puncher at 160lbs).

Whilst Carl Froch truly does carry the proverbial equaliser in his right hand (as we saw against Groves & Taylor), his KO ratio is moderate at best (even though he's faced opponents of the highest calibre).

Joe Calzaghe used to be extremely heavy-handed for a brief spell during his career, but his hands became brittle, which led to a slight change in style, as he started “slapping” his punches for most of his title reign.

Mikkel Kessler, Sven Ottke, Markus Beyer & Richie Woodhall weren't big punchers either (as in one-punch KO artists).

Lucian Bute was “technically” a big puncher, but I felt that he was carefully-matched and utterly out-bombed by Carl Froch. This also applies to Jeff Lacy, as he was dominated in embarrassing fashion by Joe Calzaghe.

Roy Jones Jr scored a handful of KO’s at 168lbs, but the calibre of opponents that he stopped at that weight can only be described as moderate at best.

I’m going to have to pick Carl Froch, because he has consistently faced the very best in his division, rather than whooping second-tier opposition (like Bute did), yet still managed to score a few devastating KO’s.

mc clellan, benn, abraham and adonis come to my mind.

yes, abraham is technicly limited at sm, i know, but we talk pure power and abraham was a monster at sm powerwise, ward said "he has bricks in his hands", just watch the taylor end, brutal one punch power. also adonis at sm was just wrecking people left and right. i think between those 4, other dont come to my mind.

[Chepppaaa]

Hw - foreman
Cr - haye
Lhw - foster
Smw - jones
Mw - jackson
Lmw - hearns
Ww - trinidad
Lww - packo
Lw - duran
Sfw - freitas
Fw - saddler

Some seriously big punchers there pal but how many scored regular 1 punch ko's where they are down for the full ten,Jackson did,often

exactly.

the difference between "wear you down puncher", the strong puncher that puts pressure with his punches and than tko's you, like pavlik or morales.

or the "on time sleep" heavy hitter, that puts you in another galaxy with one punch, like jackson or golovkin.

[Grant]

A few gap fillers:-

Heavyweight ~ Earnie Shavers (no brainer).

Cruiserweight ~ Herbie Hide (fearsome puncher).

Light middleweight ~ John Mugabi (destructive is putting it mildly).

John Mugabi........Good get.

[The Great John L]

...even prime samuel peter.... i mean...

Sam Peter?? Please complete your sentence because I have no idea exactly what you mean. Specifically, what world class HWs did Peter ever knockout? Everybody remembers the highlight reel KO of the somewhat chin challenged Jeremy WIlliams, but there really isn't much else in his resume to support him as a huge puncher. Once he started fighting better fighters he started going lots of rounds and his vaunted punches started looking more like the slow, looping mostly arm punches that they actually were.

Peter is probably one of the most over-rated punchers in the history of the HW division.

[Chepppaaa]

...even prime samuel peter.... i mean...

Sam Peter?? Please complete your sentence because I have no idea exactly what you mean. Specifically, what world class HWs did Peter ever knockout? Everybody remembers the highlight reel KO of the somewhat chin challenged Jeremy WIlliams, but there really isn't much else in his resume to support him as a huge puncher. Once he started fighting better fighters he started going lots of rounds and his vaunted punches started looking more like the slow, looping mostly arm punches that they actually were.

Peter is probably one of the most over-rated punchers in the history of the HW division.

samuel was technicly limited, therefore better opposition beat him by taking him to the technical road.

but in terms of raw power, he was a big 1 time puncher, just an overall big man and yes his punches were looping and wild, but not slow, until he fought wlad he punches were wild, fast and very destructive.

[Chepppaaa]

update

HW Lewis (weighed way more than foremon, put his whole weight better into a punch)
CW Kudryashov (nobody knows about the guy, but i have never seen somebody which such a devasting punching power at C)
LH Stevenson (dawson fight says it all, rare punching power)
SM Abraham (taylor fight)
MW Jackson (the biggest puncher ever)
SW Jackson (the biggest puncher ever)
WW Hearns (all he did was KO at ww)
SL Bailey (the #3 overall p4p ever)
LW Valero (the #2 overall p4p ever)
SF Valero (the #2 overall p4p ever)
FW Prince (83 % KO ratio)
SB Prince (a terror at sb)
BW Olivares (great power)
SF Galaxy (just him come to my mind)
FW Pacquiao (left people flat on their back, rare power)
LW Gonzales (not many come to my mind besides)
MW Lopez (tremendous power)