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I was taking a break from thinking about scantily clad women when driving home from work the other day and started thinking about how few fighters I could think of who carried their punch when moving up the divisions. Ray Robinson, Hearns and Arguello arguably did but many others haven't, such as Duran and Bob Foster.

Whre better to ask for some examples of people who did carry their punch than here, any thoughts?

Charley Burley.
Archie Moore.

manny pacquia

iran barkley

Henry Armstrong
Floyd Patterson (moved up to heavyweight)
Sam Langford

Bob Fitzsimmons

Devious beat me to it

but then again...Fitzsimmons rarely was above 168 pounds, he never exactly gained the extra weight to be a HW, but his power cetainly did carry through, beating men as much as 100 pounds heavier than himself.

Duran didn't carry his Lightweight punch but he was far from feather fisted. Especially at Welterweight. He came close to stopping Leonard a few times and Leonards guts are what stopped it from happening.

Dropped the iron chinned Palamino.

Then you're talking about dropping Barkley & pazienza near 40 and over 40lbs from where he started.

Naseem Hamed.

Flump wrote:I was taking a break from thinking about scantily clad women when driving home from work the other day and started thinking about how few fighters I could think of who carried their punch when moving up the divisions. Ray Robinson, Hearns and Arguello arguably did but many others haven't, such as Duran and Bob Foster.

Whre better to ask for some examples of people who did carry their punch than here, any thoughts?

you named the most obvious one to me at least, i lost count the amount of times tommy hearns put a tough durable light heavy like dennis andries on the deck.

How about Roy Jones, Jr?

He hit hard from 154 to 175.

Modern Era:
Pacquiao
Dela Hoya
Trinidad
Hearns

From the past:
Archie Moore
Ray Robinson
Ezzard Charles


I have more but I'll save some for the rest.

James Toney, he was a destroyer from 160-168, brutally demolished and single-handedly washed up Vassily Jirov himself then went on to beat the hell out of Holyfield and snap the elastic out of the heads of guys like Ruiz, Rahman, and Peter despite his advanced age and worsened shape.

Diamond WEAPON wrote:James Toney, he was a destroyer from 160-168, brutally demolished and single-handedly washed up Vassily Jirov himself then went on to beat the hell out of Holyfield and snap the elastic out of the heads of guys like Ruiz, Rahman, and Peter despite his advanced age and worsened shape.

Certainly at 168, his knockout of Prince Charles Williams was a classic but he only managed to stop Holyfield at heavyweight, the rest lasted the distance though he hit hard enough to keep them from walking through him.

I'm really disappointed with Toney though, classic skills, 70+ fights on his resume, proper old school fighter, then he gets done for steriods, twice. Shame, this will lose him respect in the years ahead even in a sport as seemingly unconcerned with this sort of thing as boxing.

Flump wrote:
I'm really disappointed with Toney though, classic skills, 70+ fights on his resume, proper old school fighter, then he gets done for steriods, twice. Shame, this will lose him respect in the years ahead even in a sport as seemingly unconcerned with this sort of thing as boxing.

I agree. James Toney is the closest you will get to a perfect fighter on his best days. It's too bad he lost his battle against Burger King, he could've been a lot more.

De La Hoya and Trinidad

Jimmy McClarnin started at Flyweight and could bang real good all the way up to welter.