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Including bantamweight by the way. There don't seem to be that many great punchers.

I can think of Rafael Marquez, Zarate, Zamora, Olivares at bantamweight. Ricardo Lopez and Carbajal under bantamweight. Who else were devastating punchers of these weights?

Alexander Munoz (still active)

One of the greatest punchers of all time in my opinion was the great former Flyweight Champion of the World from Wales, Jimmy Wilde. Who was also known as the 'Mighty Atom' and 'The Ghost With A Hammer In His Hand'.

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One of the true great fighters.

Some great punchers at Flyweight were...
Benny Lynch,
Peter Kane
Pascual Perez
Chartai Chinoi
Efren Torres
Micheal Carbajal... all great punchers... 8)

Humberto (Chiquita) Gonzalez had a good punch on him

KOJOE90 wrote:Humberto (Chiquita) Gonzalez had a good punch on him

Yep and also Pancho Villa at Fly and Pannama Al BRown at bantam.

Khaosai Galaxy "the Thai Tyson" comes to mind, although I have encountered some doubters about his career and legacy on boxing boards, given that they consider he only faced weak opposition.
Nonetheless I believe there's no denying his great punching power.

From what I've read and seen of Galaxy he was an outstanding fighter.
Charlie Magri was a very good puncher at Flyweight... 8)

Terrible Terry McGovern

Oh yeah..Ricardo Lopez.
Had to re-read the lists given..thought he`d be close to the top.

Lopez wasn't a one punch ko artist.... more a great all round boxer I'd say.... 8)

silkov wrote:Lopez wasn't a one punch ko artist.... more a great all round boxer I'd say.... 8)

Sorry bumping old thread, but yes he was a one-punch KO artist i have 20 of his fights and he had good one punch knockouts.

tonyevs wrote:Terrible Terry McGovern

gotta give you props on the McGovern call--god I'd love to actually see in action what I've read about that guy!

By all accounts I have read, Sixto Escobar had a sleep-inducing right--at least during his early mainland USA career.

Jesus Pimentel

Romeo Anaya (he KO'd you or you KO'd him; I wish I could have seen the Anaya-Taylor fight with all the knockdowns)

Jimmy Wilde is probably the hardest punching fighter pfp in history. What can you say about a minimum weight guy who has 99 KOs, i.e. more than 70% of his fights, and mostly against opponents bigger than him... What can you say about a minimum weight fighter who would regularly take on all comers at boxing booth exhibitions in the UK?

"The Ghost With A Hammer In His Hands"

Does anyone know of any good books on Wilde?

-Dapa

Broncano wrote:Khaosai Galaxy "the Thai Tyson" comes to mind, although I have encountered some doubters about his career and legacy on boxing boards, given that they consider he only faced weak opposition.
Nonetheless I believe there's no denying his great punching power.

This doubters are simply wrong - Khaosai Galaxy was every bit of the real deal - He had brutal power and was relentless - (he also fought very good competition for his era....and travled outside of Thailand as well).

Galaxy is without a doubt the best JBW in history -

Another very good JBW that get's left out of discussions is Sung Kil Moon - He had a huge punch! and was a wild man in the ring - He held a portion of the JBW title for many years (along side Galaxy).

Jimmy Wilde was incredible...what is the pound difference of 1 stone, or what is the weight of 1 stone? Anyway, Wilde almost always was at a weight disadvantage, yet he still put his opponents to sleep.

Barry,
A stone is 14 pounds in British terminology. That's a heck of a lot of weight to give up to other flyweights and bantamweights. Wilde never hit 110 on the scales in his career and most frequently fought around 100 pounds.

I just got several 1913 and 1914 issues of Mirror of Life and Boxing World and have really enjoyed reading the reports from Wilde's fights. Every fight that I have read about with Wilde, he has in fact been at a disadvantage in weight, most of the time it has been at least 1 stone difference in weight...that's pretty incredible considering that the fighters were also top notch boxers and not just everyday journeymen! I've always had great respect for Wilde, but I'm gaining a whole new view about him though...simply incredible!

Wilde also had a long history of fighting in the Boxing Booths I read that he often KO'd men over twice his own body weight. Ok these were often not trained fighting men but many were still big, strong, tough famrers, coalminers etc.