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Someone else I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet is Ruben Carter... remember his koes over Griffith and Fernandez!!...

I would think that both Stanley Ketchell and Bob
Fitzsimmons belong on the list of the hardest
punchers in the middleweight of all time.

- Chuck Johnston

Ezzard wrote:Graziano?

Yep good call

Stan Kitten Hayward? Heard he could wack, or maybe it was just that he was an excellent fighter. Great nickname


I reckon it's safe to say Julian Jackson hit just about as hard as any middleweight who ever walked the planet. Can you imagine anyone hitting harder than him? Should be illegal if it was possible.

The G Man deserves honorable mention too.

Solly Krieger should be on the list-he was a pretty good banger

this name hasnt been mentioned yet, but highly avoided black middleweight harry smith. the man could bang!

Bob Fitzsimmons- At not more than Middleweight class he took titles at Middleweight, Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight; his power was unchanged despite facing (his largest opponent) men 6'7" 240 pounds, knocking them out.

Stanley Ketchell- Knocked out the very best in an era very deep in talent, beating even Light Heavyweights and his flash knock down of Jack Johnson is very memorable.

Other mentions:

Marvin Hagler
Archie Moore

Decagon wrote:Fitzsimmons had power, but he faced a pretty lame group of middleweights and heavyweights, outside of the guys who beat him.

so peter maher, tom sharkey, gus ruhlin, james corbett were lame heavyweiughts? all guys he knocked out

Decagon wrote:Exactly! You're starting to pick things up!

You need to brush up on your studies, you obviously know nothing about these fighters that you're branding 'lame'... I'm afraid that it's your boxing knowledge that is rather lame...

I would say either Bob Fitzsimmons or Stanley Ketchel were tops at middleweight.


Some other whose names I did not see mentioned who were hard hitters.:

Kid McCoy
Young Mitchell
Jack Dillon
Eduardo Lausse
Randy Turpin
In-Chul Baek
Chong-Pal Park
Bennie Briscoe
Rafael Merentino
Roy Jones
Tony Mundine
Dave Sands
Alfie Sands
Gratien Tonna
Ossie Stewart
Jean Mateo


Then some that I don’t know much about, but who have pretty tremendous records:

Eliseo Quintana
Kurt Prenzel
Bill Larrigo
Clive Stewart
Adolph Wiegert
Max Resch

Decagon wrote:Here are a few that haven't been mentioned:

• Gene Fullmer
• Bernard Hopkins
• Simon Brown
• Merqui Sosa
• Archie Moore
• Charley Burley
• Billy Conn
• Lloyd Marshall
• Eddie Booker

Billy Conn couldn't break an egg.

Decagon wrote:Fitzsimmons had power, but he faced a pretty lame group of middleweights and heavyweights, outside of the guys who beat him.

I'm starting to think that they put you in here either as comic relief or just to keep things "stirred-up".

Nero3000 wrote:

Decagon wrote:Here are a few that haven't been mentioned:

• Gene Fullmer
• Bernard Hopkins
• Simon Brown
• Merqui Sosa
• Archie Moore
• Charley Burley
• Billy Conn
• Lloyd Marshall
• Eddie Booker

Billy Conn couldn't break an egg.

Conn was also at Middleweight for about 8 fights of a 70ish fight career.

Mattyp151 wrote:

Nero3000 wrote:

Decagon wrote:Here are a few that haven't been mentioned:

• Gene Fullmer
• Bernard Hopkins
• Simon Brown
• Merqui Sosa
• Archie Moore
• Charley Burley
• Billy Conn
• Lloyd Marshall
• Eddie Booker

Billy Conn couldn't break an egg.

Conn was also at Middleweight for about 8 fights of a 70ish fight career.

and had something like 14 KOs in 75 fights. These are Whitaker-esque numbers.

What your mentionig reminds me of the one punch knockout Wilfred Benitez dropped on Mo Hope. Wilfred wasnt regarded as a big puncher. Hope might have something to say about that.

Decagon wrote:Here are a few that haven't been mentioned:

• Gene Fullmer
• Bernard Hopkins
• Simon Brown
• Merqui Sosa
• Archie Moore
• Charley Burley
• Billy Conn
• Lloyd Marshall
• Eddie Booker

Oh GOD.

Decagon half idiot half moron 100% retard.

Decagon wrote:This topic has been going fine so far. Why try to ruin it with trash talk?

Like the Gerald Mclellan thread that you brought up some dogfight bullshit in.

Hardest MW punchers are: - Bob Fitz, Stanley Ketchel, Jock McAvoy, Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano, Rodrigo Valdez, Eugene Hart, John Mugabi, Tommy Hearns, Gerald McClellan, Nigel Benn & Roy Jones

Simon Brown? Fairly herd hitting welter in his day

Julian Jackson rises above the rest
however men like mugabi and artie Levine are worth getting mentioned

Jackson

Never seen a guy punch like Jackson at any weight so no1 middle for me

Hagler my boyhood hero but wasn't an enormous puncher. don't get me wrong he hit very hard but was more about his accuracy and the way he'd wear fighters down. For one punch power it has to be mclellen. Benn said he'd never felt anything like it. that guy hit like a truck.

TBF ggg hits dam hard too. He's a big puncher and no mistake.

Others, well jackson and hearns huge punchers but both lt middles. Fitz huge puncher oh and langford was a monstrous puncher. Hostak has the rep as being a huge puncher too - kind of a 1930s hearns.

All in all Id go g man,

Jackson

Monster

Now, looking back and thinking about it. These 4 should be the hardest punching middleweights of all time:
Stanley Ketchel
Bob Fitzsimmons
Julian Jackson
Gennady "GGG" Golovkin

Out of that list, I stay with Jackson. This guy was so devastating it made me wonder what did he eat back then to have a punch like that. He was an unbelievable knockout artist!

sugarramos wrote:Julian Jackson rises above the rest
however men like mugabi and artie Levine are worth getting mentioned

Julian "The Hawk" Jackson was the most devastating knockout artist of my lifetime!