Biggest punches survived

ringsider · Post by **ringsider** » 29 Nov 2006, 02:07

Larry Holmes surviving the Ernie Shavers right hand bomb that put Holmes on the deck....what a chin to survive that!!

DonCorleone · Post by **DonCorleone** » 29 Nov 2006, 02:30

Holyfields flush left hook in the rubber with Bowe. Maybe the hardest shot Holyfield ever threw?
BUT, Holyfield says he was weakened by the flu - look how quickly he punched himself out after scoring the KD.

walshb · Post by **walshb** » 29 Nov 2006, 05:04

The Frazier shot that knocked Ali down was clen as can be and Ali got up immediately. Pryor not only taking Arguellos bomb right hand in the 13th, but smiling straight after it.

The Durable Dane · Post by **The Durable Dane** » 29 Nov 2006, 11:22

Frazier dropping Ali in their first fight. that was a crazy shot..

DoubleM · Post by **DoubleM** » 29 Nov 2006, 13:20

Frazier's 15th round knockdown of Ali is a bit overrated. Good shot, a classic punch, but not the hardest Frazier landed in their series. It just happened to be the final round and Ali was tired, a bit off balance too. He took a couple of harder looking punches in Manila.

kick asner · Post by **kick asner** » 29 Nov 2006, 17:39

Archie Moore when he was knocked down for the third time against Yvonne Durrell.

Lammatta took a whole bunch of big punches from Ray Robinson and survived until late in the fight.

You could probably go back and sight examples from the Zale Graziono triligy.

cultus · Post by **cultus** » 29 Nov 2006, 20:18

The Durable Dane wrote:Frazier dropping Ali in their first fight. that was a crazy shot..

Henry Cooper got in a better shot.. Ali was quite wobbely after that one.

Jaclem · Post by **Jaclem** » 30 Nov 2006, 04:13

..ron lyle and george foreman traded some killer shots.....each time they went down it looked as if they were OUT....lyle finally WAS out....but it was bombs away while it lasted....

i don't think the ones before the final blockbuster were as hard....but both walcott and marciano took some biggies from each other and survived....

zale and graziano each had the other in trouble in their first two fights...before the one who took the most beating survived and kayoed the other one....alas...there's no record of these fights but i am going by written accounts plus being told by a guy who saw the first one...

...gatti in the first ward fight....in that round where it looked as if the ref should have stopped it..and then gattie came back and threw some big ones of his own...

joe louis would have been knocked out of the ring if it hadn't been for the ropes....way on the other side from where tami mauriello hit him with a pip in the first seconds of their fight. the bomber really looked sick hangiing on the ropes....but by the time tami got there to follow up the great recuperative powers of louis brought him back to demolish tami.

not a one shot..but the combinations that holyfield kept pouring on to foreman would have put just about anyone down...probably out...but foremand just kept on coming.....cheesburger belly and all...

ps..why did i have to log on to get this one posted?.....never had to do that before.....just got on automatically....

MightyWarrior · Post by **MightyWarrior** » 01 Dec 2006, 07:43

ringsider wrote:Larry Holmes surviving the Ernie Shavers right hand bomb that put Holmes on the deck....what a chin to survive that!!

Yep that's the hardest punch I've ever seen anyone get up from and carry on - a near miracle, and the way he staggered onto the ropes after, a lot of ref's might've stopped it.

And bear in mind that was the best punch from possibly the hardest hitter to ever step inside a boxing ring.

walshb · Post by **walshb** » 01 Dec 2006, 09:16

Was Shavers punch on Ali in their 2nd round not as hard as the Holmes shot. It looked so and Ali though he wobbled, gained his composure almost instantaneously, even smiling and calling Ernie forward.
Ali never went down from the shot either

kick asner · Post by **kick asner** » 01 Dec 2006, 10:40

Another big punch Holmes was able to survive was when Renaldo Snipes caught him flush with a punch Larry never saw. Although Snipes was not the biggest punching heavyweight it looked like he got everything behind this one punch. Larry was so wobbly he even fell a second time from the same punch and was almost counted out. Their was also enough time left in the round for Snipes to capitalize.

Crease · Post by **Crease** » 01 Dec 2006, 10:51

I remember "The Rumble in the Jungle":

Ali was leaning backwards against the ropes and Foreman connected him with a cracker right uppercut (I think in the first round)

Ali fell forwards into Foreman and used George to hold himself up...

That puch really staggered and humbled Muhammad...like.