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In his next fight, on August 18, 1936, Joe Louis kayoed another former heavyweight champ, this time it was Jack Sharkey, in three rounds. Sharkey, who also fought Jack Dempsey, compared the two men and was not impressed by the Brown Bomber: “Every time Louis hit me, he said, ‘Sorry.’ Every time Jack Dempsey hit me, he said, ‘How come you’re not dead yet?’” Sharkey added, “I was the only fighter to fight Dempsey and Louis. Who hit me hardest? Dempsey hit me the hardest because Dempsey hit me $211,000 worth while Louis only hit me $36,000 worth.”

my dad went fishing with jack sharkey and my dad asked him who was better louis or dempsey , sharkey said "you gotta watch out for there left hooks". Thats all he said.

Dempsey seems to have somewhat past his prime by the time he fought Sharkey so isn't it possible his punches would have been less devastating then when he was at his peak?

By the way, I seem to recall Max Schmelling mentioning that he had sparred with Dempsey.

max schmeling and jack dempsey were twins

what fighter did francois botha say hit him the hardest?.

who has lewis said hit him hardest.

Good point.

Jan wrote:I think Tyson was the best puncher ever!
Some of his opponents said that his punch is overrated , but they only say that , becouse tyson destroyed them!!

I have seen EVERY Tyson-Fight and no other fighter impressed me with his punching-power.

Here are some great punches from Tyson:

Botha ( Stewart called it one of the perfect punches in boxing history)
Etinne ( Wooooow)
Jack Johnson ( he broke his jaw with that punch) and so on......

And there were many fighters who said that ty<son punches extremly hard.

Frank Bruno ( "He has nuklear-energie in both hands!") , Spinks and Francis (" I have never been hit that hard!") , Savarese ( "The punch was unbeleaveble!") , William Hosea , who lied on the floor and cried loudly ( " This smeg hits like a sledge hammer!") or Eddie Richardson after the repoter asked him , if he was ever hit as hard as Tyson did:" Yes , one year ago ,when i was rocked by a lorry!"

Or the Tyson-Frazier fight. After it the Referee Joe Cortez said that he has never been seen a fighter , who hits as hard as tyson!!!

when did spinks comment on tysons punching power?.

Ali said that Shavers hit the hardest.

Bat Nelson said Aurelio Herrera hit the hardest.

Kid Broad said Aurelio Herrera hit the hardest.

Patterson said Liston hit the hardest.

Zora Folley said Liston hit the hardest.

Corbett, Fitz and Jeffries all said Choynski was an amazing hitter.

Fritzie Zivic said Lew Jenkins was an amazing hitter.

Carmen Basilio said Ike Williams was an amazing hitter.

Ike Williams knocked down Kid Gavilan, something Robinson couldn't do.

Gene Fullmer said Eduardo Lausse was a great hitter.

Jack Johnson said Peter Maher was a great hitter with the right hand.

Sam Langford said Joe Walcott was a great hitter.

Jess Willard said Dempsey was the hardest puncher he fought.

Jimmy Ellis said Frazier hit harder than Ali.

Yaqui Lopez said Matt Franklin was a great puncher.

Red Burman said John Henry Louis was a great puncher.

Joey Maxim said Curtis Sheppard was a great puncher. So did Archie Moore.

Kilrain said Sullivan was a great puncher.

Tommy Loughran said George Carpentier was a great puncher.

Pete Herman said Kid Williams was a great puncher.

..curtis shepard was the only man to knock maxim out. he caught him in the first round. three weeks later maxim outpointed him. (rematches came a bit sooner then.) shapard also broke an opponents collar bone with a punch.

Jack Johnson was the type of athlete who refused to get in the ring with his longtime number one contender, Sam Langford.

What did tysons opponents say about his power?.

>>>What did tysons opponents say about his power?.<<<

Holmes said that he felt Tyson's punch more so thgan anyone else he faced...he said he did not feel when Shavers hit him...which would either mean that it wasn't the heaviest shot, or it was so heavy a shot that it just rebooted Holmes enitre system...I would lean toward the latter!

50s lightweight champion, Jimmy Carter said that Columbus lightweight Willie Russell hit him the hardest and was his most difficult fight...up to 1952, so that may have changed being that Carter fought several more years, but I haven't read anything to counter it...I know Russell was a hell of a fighter though...too bad little to no people know who he is.

barry wrote:
50s lightweight champion, Jimmy Carter said that Columbus lightweight Willie Russell hit him the hardest and was his most difficult fight...up to 1952, so that may have changed being that Carter fought several more years, but I haven't read anything to counter it...I know Russell was a hell of a fighter though...too bad little to no people know who he is.

Thanks for mentioning Willie Russell.

I looked up Russell HERE:

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=13877

He fought out of Columbus, Ohio.

Most of his fights were there.

He lost 10-round decisions there to three fighters who were top level lightweight champions--

Ike Williams, Jimmy Carter, and Joe Brown.

Jimmy Carter was the best finisher of hurt fighters I ever saw.

Jimmy Carter was the best finisher of hurt fighters I ever saw.

naw joe louis was. also archie moore. like the way moore finished ur man harold johnson :P

Max Schmeling once was quoted as saying that Joe Louis wasn't the hardest puncher he ever faced, but a German fighter named Max Diekman hit him the hardest, that Diekman caught him on his ear and his ear began to bleed immediately.

Interesting, considering Louis blew away Schmeling in one single round in one of the most brutal fights the world has ever seen---but I guess in all fairness, Schmeling was somewhat passed his best, even when he fought Louis the first time around, though he did later become the champion of his native Germany again after his defeat at the hands of Louis.

barry wrote:>>>What did tysons opponents say about his power?.<<<

Holmes said that he felt Tyson's punch more so thgan anyone else he faced...he said he did not feel when Shavers hit him...which would either mean that it wasn't the heaviest shot, or it was so heavy a shot that it just rebooted Holmes enitre system...I would lean toward the latter!

50s lightweight champion, Jimmy Carter said that Columbus lightweight Willie Russell hit him the hardest and was his most difficult fight...up to 1952, so that may have changed being that Carter fought several more years, but I haven't read anything to counter it...I know Russell was a hell of a fighter though...too bad little to no people know who he is.

no holmes said that tysons punch didnt feel that hard

Marvin Hagler cites John Mugabi as the hardest hitter he has ever faced!

That tells you something when you consider that he took flush Right hands from Hearns, who had one of the hardest single shots in boxing history.

>>>I also agree. Holmes said something like, "When Mike Tyson hit you, it hurt, but when Earnie Shavers hit you, you just went numb." I do believe that Barry should endeavor to do more research into the topic.<<<

I prefer to do research that is a little more difficult and challenging than boxing that I have seen!

holmes doesnt remember getting hit by tyson tyson hit him so damm hard

Cojimar 1945 wrote:Dempsey seems to have somewhat past his prime by the time he fought Sharkey so isn't it possible his punches would have been less devastating then when he was at his peak?

By the way, I seem to recall Max Schmelling mentioning that he had sparred with Dempsey.

Dempsey toured Germany when Schmeling was an upstart light-heavyweight in the mid-1920s and they fought a couple of exhibition rounds. I believe they also did exhibition rounds in the early 1930s, when Dempsey was actually retired.

Brockton is right, the young Max Schmeling (left) looked like a carbon copy of Jack Dempsey (right), 10 years his senior.

http://www.daahp.wayne.edu/Photos/schmeling_dempsey.jpg

..oh damn....are these two going to get into one of their marathon arguments again?

Holmes said it plainly in an interview you idiot! Which you might have seen had you been watching boxing at the time!

You're the only person around here that lies compulsively...that's why you are always having to make up new lies to cover the old lies you have told...so many that you have forgotten what it is that you lied about, which is why I said that honesty is the only way, so if you would take my direction about honesty the same way you have taken my direction about microfilm research then you might even gain some respect from a few people. Hell, you would be doing good to just admit to all the lies and start anew...clean slate!


>>>oh damn....are these two going to get into one of their marathon arguments again?<<<

It already started a few days ago, so you might want to ignore it, but I’ve pretty much said all that I want to say…for the time being!

Marciano certainly was sloppy finishing old, old lightheavyweight Archie Moore.

Nat Fleischer didn't think much of Marciano after that performance.