i think the only placement im not happy with is GGG. His Jab alone was so heavy that it almost regularly caused knockdowns.

@TY-km8hj

4 ай бұрын

Agreed he's at the very least B tier, the fact he didn't face the best opposition due to them ducking isn't his fault and also has nothing to do with his natural power

@THEDONSTR8Fightah76

4 ай бұрын

HURRICANE CARTER

@cagriyuksel6448

4 ай бұрын

@@TY-km8hj exactly the ducking was done by his opponents because they feared his power

@TY-km8hj

4 ай бұрын

@cagriyuksel6448 fr, I think he'd beat majority of them anyway

@Scientists_dont_lie

4 ай бұрын

@@cagriyuksel6448 lol... bro GGG ducked SOG. He did his own ducking aswell

Tank higher then Hearns is a fucking crime. Hasnt knocked out anybody of note and he gets higher the guy who knocked out Duran.

@TheBoxingRealm

4 ай бұрын

😂 exactly Gervonta is extremely overrated. He barely could KO glass jaw old Gamboa who ALMOST went the distance. Gervonta also went the distance with unknown Pitbull who had Gervonta running. Every other fighter Gervonta KOed was due to a Rehydration Clause or pulling smaller boxers up in weight and crushing tomatocans 😂

@Henrik.S8

4 ай бұрын

I agree that it should be the other way around no question about that but that Tank hasn't knocked out *anybody* of note is a bit exaggerated considering he KO'd Garcia, Romeo and Gamboa who were all champions.

@Ar1AnX1x

4 ай бұрын

@@TheBoxingRealm this is a Pound for Pound list, Davis is way smaller than Hearns, you can't compare their power by their K.O rate, someone his size putting people down with one shot is very impressive

@TheBoxingRealm

4 ай бұрын

@@Ar1AnX1x Even pound for pound wise Gervonta does not hit harder. Hearns carried power all the way to LHW. YDKSAB. Who has Gervonta KOed? Pulling fighters up 3 weight classes? Big tomatocans with "dehydration" clauses?

@TheBoxingRealm

4 ай бұрын

@@Ar1AnX1x Who did Gervonta KO in one shot? 👂🏼

Hearns in B?..... the man kod duran in two rounds, in one of the best punches thrown since the camera was invented - took his power from 147 to 190 and still flattened people...

@magacop5180

4 ай бұрын

Hearns was a Weightbully. He’s the Original Weightbully. You don’t get props for KOing people 50lbs lighter than you.

@eranliber5993

4 ай бұрын

@@magacop5180 no matter what was his true weight - if you knock people out in the span of 43 pounds - you deserve to be really high on a list like this. A man like benn went up 8 pounds and lost maybe 30% of his punching, so a guy like hearns - koing people in that insane range feels to me not like a no brainer. You can call it weight bully or not - i dont see why he is placed in B

@kyalebrooks

4 ай бұрын

This is B of the all time greatest, it’s like saying he’s 15/20 Al all time

@tmrevenge

4 ай бұрын

I agree thinking a puncher like him is on B for anything is crazy. But its a list of only the best of the best. So there aren't 20 better punchers in all boxing history

@Kooljupiter

4 ай бұрын

@@magacop5180 Didnt Hearns come in underweight at welter against Leonard! pretty sure that man was just Lanky

3:53 I think Foreman’s IQ was a lot better than 83. When he came back the second time, it was his IQ he relied on the most when he realize he couldn’t move as fast as he used to. His IQ is what captured him the world title making him the oldest person in history to win the heavyweight title.

@S.O.A_Zero

4 ай бұрын

If you search top level boxer's IQs you'd be shocked. Ali had something like 85, yet he appeared and talked like one of the smartest on the planet. Boxing IQ is a completely different thing

@samueldowney2806

4 ай бұрын

Agreed. Foreman is a commonly underrated boxer, even in his earlier career, because he looks slow and cumbersome. But he developed a style to make the most of his physical attributes and made him very awkward to fight against.

@theo4014

4 ай бұрын

@@S.O.A_Zerohe’s obviously talking about Foreman’s ring IQ, not how well George could match shapes in patterns

@kungfukxnnydee

4 ай бұрын

@@S.O.A_Zero obviously he was talking about fight IQ wtf 🤣 also any list ranking Mohammed Ali’s actual IQ as below average is obviously completely fucking inaccurate

@S.O.A_Zero

4 ай бұрын

@@kungfukxnnydee Man, since when do we rank fight IQ with numbers? Because the 83 in the original comment looks a lot like a reference to the IQ i was talking about

One very underrated puncher is Jersey Joe Walcott, he knocked out Ezzard Charles with a single left hook when Charles had never even been knocked down before let alone out and that was in 77 fights, and Wallcott did it with best left hook ever thrown. Marciano said that Wallcott was the hardest puncher he ever fought and in all but one of his title matches he had, he knocked down his opponent and he only won one of them and participated in 8, which I think makes him unique in that respect. And he was the oldest ever world champion when he won his belts and that is when he fought Marciano and Charles and Louis, so who knows how powerful, espcially p4p he could have been in his younger days.

@BLTVEXTRA9

4 ай бұрын

You are right, he should on here!

@righthandlad9220

4 ай бұрын

Walcott was great a master of the sweet science

@tylerrobbins8311

4 ай бұрын

👏👏👏 glad to see Walcott getting his respect man is criminally underrated.

@Fathervinyard

4 ай бұрын

the jersey joe shuffle

@sabbracadabra8367

4 ай бұрын

I saw a video the other day about a Russian boxer who used to knock out almost everyone he fought. Can't remember his name, cool though. I always figured if you could have tested the power of all these people, the highest would probably be someone not surprising, like George Foreman.

I don’t think Gervonta Davis is p4p a harder puncher than Thomas Hearns, Hearns besides wilder has to have the hardest right hand p4p on this list, his power quite literally was enough for 1 punch K.O from 147 all the way to 175

@josiahkatomd6149

4 ай бұрын

Davis doesnt even hit harder than Ggg

@nananyantakyi1549

4 ай бұрын

He is, they say Tank jas the power of a light Heavyweight and he is a Heavyweight

@prodigy-.

3 ай бұрын

@@nananyantakyi1549whos he ko’ed in one punch?

@JGLMAO

3 ай бұрын

@@nananyantakyi1549yea maybe Floyd or tank said that but he’s nowhere near that, he hits maybe like a middleweight or welterweight but he’s nowhere near heavy levels

@ND9HighlightsComps

2 ай бұрын

Gerald mclellan pfp hardest right cross of all time

Liston deserves that S+ slot. Come on now.

@peterjenei1619

4 ай бұрын

Agreed. "Every time he hit you he broke something."

@duska3529

3 ай бұрын

I agree

@salvadororbigojr353

2 ай бұрын

in my opinion, the scariest fighter of all time ... his stare is death and his jail records are enough to destroy anyone ... his 15" fist ... better get a hammer ... Liston will hurt you and scare you ...

@BOXinremedy

Ай бұрын

nah bro s is perfect for him

Love the list. I personally have an issue with - Thomas "The Hitman" Hearns - def should be higher - he used a lot of boxing but his 1 punch power was crazy. HITMAN

@yezzir8929

4 ай бұрын

Plus it carried up the higher weight classes!

@reboot8302

4 ай бұрын

word. nobody did to Duran what Hearns did to him.

@user-yv2ig2wl4e

4 ай бұрын

Purely based of power still one of the biggest hitters on this list p4p

@ewoutstorm4626

4 ай бұрын

The list is a fucking joke. Chavez 2 tiers higher than Duran? Hearns in B? Joe Louis higher than Liston? I mean hardly anything about this list makes sense

Boxing legends TV thank you for this outstanding video. I'm so glad you started making videos again. It would be great if you could also make a tier list of the top 50 boxers of all time. greetings from Croatia

the amount of knowledge to make video like this is increadible. props to BLTV team ☺

To this very day the punching speed and power of Julian Jackson completely amazes me

@dexterspeights3484

4 ай бұрын

Julian "ACTION" Jackson > KO Artist 100%

@lesran

4 ай бұрын

Single hardest puncher I have ever seen p4p. The theory was that he had extra muscle elasticity. When he threw a punch it was almost like a slingshot. Just generated so much torque on the punches. Not sure when we will ever see anybody like him again.

Julian the hawk jackson is the best hitter in the lower weighs in my eyes

@aabevincent5601

4 ай бұрын

He was truly something...

@jakestablettableto9453

4 ай бұрын

Naoya inyoue top light puncher

I’m so glad to see you acknowledging super old school guys like Louis and Langford as S tier punchers. Too many fans nowadays don’t have a clue just how hard these men hit. Langford regularly one shot men over 50 pounds heavier than him. Louis also often broke bones and knocked out teeth with his punches (he actually punched Max Schmeling’s rib bone into his kidney in their second fight).

Back at it with the quality content big up boxing legends

Tank above Hearn’s and such is crazy . Tank hasn’t even fought for a real world title for years let alone moved up weight classes knocking out the best .

@mohammadmusabasif4808

4 ай бұрын

For sure, there aren't many fighters I know that can take Hearns' right hand

@mopar_keys

4 ай бұрын

… but he has moved up in weight and KO’s the champ for the belt , twice!! And this is strictly about punching power anyway dam yall hate on bro so much yall forget yall don’t know boxing 😂 … in real life you’d fanboy out

@robbielong2884

4 ай бұрын

@@mopar_keys hasn’t moved up like Hearn’s and fought the best . Tank has a padded record same as wilder .

@mopar_keys

4 ай бұрын

@@robbielong2884 so world champions not enough?? It’ll be better if his team let YOU pick for him huh 🤔 😂😂😂🤦🏾‍♂️

@Supersupremegang

4 ай бұрын

@@mopar_keys Tank is HATED bro lol it’s funny and sad at this point

Great video, appreciate the work that went into this .

Great list. I'd say generally a bit generous with current fighters. I don't think Tank or Beterbiev should be higher than Hearns, let them fight someone with 40 wins and we'll see what power they really have. For me the S+ tier is really just Shavers, Foreman, Tyson, Jackson, Louis, Langford, Saddler and reluctantly Wilder too. Glad to see Naseem got bumped to S in the end. What he did at that weight class with one punch is just different. Fighters I'd like to see on there include Roy Jones (B? with S+ speed..), Hagler (B? or C?), Liston (S?)

@operator0

4 ай бұрын

Wilder is a strange one to rank. He was a terrible boxer. Even a terrible fighter, but if he landed one of those rights it was generally going to be a victory. Because of that I would also have him in s+. You can't be that bad of a fighter and win that many fights without unreal stopping power.

@ravensnation4902

4 ай бұрын

@@operator0this man called wilder a terrible fighter , the disrespect and delusion is off the charts lol. If he is so terrible , go accomplish what he has then

@operator0

4 ай бұрын

@@ravensnation4902 I don't have his power, otherwise I could. Hell, almost anyone could if they had his power.

@coachingconfidant2785

4 ай бұрын

@@ravensnation4902 Tyson is so insanely overrated for power. I hit harder than him. His power came in all combos he doesn't have true one punch power like me or the others in S+

@no-ge5mu

4 ай бұрын

@@coachingconfidant2785who are you 😭

As a very casual boxing fan, you've opened my eyes to some new boxers to check out. Pretty cool video, I was wondering if there was a list of some of the hardest punchers, who'd be on that list. Great watch

@alphonseelric5722

4 ай бұрын

This guy is a casual boxing fan as well. Delve deeper bro.

Absolutely phenomenal doco style video. I never miss a BLTV upload. Please do more! Does anyone know if there's a way to get access to other videos? Do they have patraon or something?

Amazing work brotha I love the tier list and the effort but in this video I can’t wait to see what the future videos entail

I absolutely love this channel. God tier editing. Boxing needs you, BLTV!

I've always found the guys who carried their power up through the divisions, the scariest (Fitzsimmons, Hearns, Leonard, Langford etc...) Fantastic video, as always 🙏🇬🇧🥊

@mcdonalchee

4 ай бұрын

Don’t forget sanders

You bloody mad lad, the content is off the chain. Thank you so much BLTV!!!!!

Bro, this is really great video ... great job man

Fantastic Tier List my friend. The best on the entire Internet. Golovkin should be placed higher in A or S tier though on just pure raw punching power. He was legit breaking human bones in matches (Broken orbital bone on Brook and 2 Broken ribs on Mackilin) Beat the crap out of Kovalev in sparring during their primes and used to make people piss blood. His nickname was actually dubbed "Superman" up at Big Bear when he first stepped foot on America soil in 2012.

@dexterspeights3484

4 ай бұрын

Golovkin should easily be in A tier 100%

@jamesben9589

3 ай бұрын

terrible list

Great video as always! Just what I needed to relax to this evening, before my exam tomorrow. Thanks!

@vince11harris

4 ай бұрын

Good luck on your exam brother

Great video BLTV, as always

BLTV always delivers with the content... Great.

I think an underated puncher is Max Bear, his right hand was so powerful he by accident k illed a man in the ring and he knocked out 85 inch reach (same as Tyson Fury) 263lb all muscle Primo Carnera putting him in hospital for two weeks.

@THEDONSTR8Fightah76

4 ай бұрын

forgot about Hurricane Carter

@TastelessSoftware

4 ай бұрын

Yeah. Baer should probably be in the list. Not the best technical boxer but had tremendous power.

@Alex-cw3rz

4 ай бұрын

@@TastelessSoftware I mean compared to some of the others on this list he was a technical marvel

@angelvalle6515

3 ай бұрын

Agreed

Great work! This video was awesome!

Another video from my favorite KZreadr, time to drop everything and watch :)

Great list! I tend to agree with almost any of you picks. I would’ve put both *Morrison* and *Hearns* in A tier. Additionally, I would add *Max Baer* on the list as I see him Knocking out most of todays heavyweights despite being way smaller. Also *Roy Jones JR* could slip in To E-tier considering the other fighters listed there.

@kyalebrooks

4 ай бұрын

RJJ as great as he is, was not a heavy hitter. He only got the KO in half fights.

@Pedro_Le_Chef

4 ай бұрын

Max Baer was a lethal puncher. Literally. He once killed a man in the ring.

One thing that I love about boxing is how the sport is well documented. Not only we have footage from 100 years ago but several pictures, news articles and even movies about every major fighter and fight there has ever been throughout the years.

Thank you 🙏 I love these

great videos in both channels as always, amazing work!

@_doomby

4 ай бұрын

Editing is unreal!

How much did Floyd pay you to put tank that high lol

@nananyantakyi1549

4 ай бұрын

You are brain dead..lol, Everyone testifies to Tanks power..They say he hits like a Light Heavyweight and he is a lightweight.

@Righthook..

2 ай бұрын

I don't think u can name a lightweight that can punch like tank in this Era.

@Coldass

2 ай бұрын

@@Righthook.. teofimo Lopez lol, unlike tank he knocked out an undefeated lightweight champion in richard commey, same guy that Davis ducked lmao

@Righthook..

2 ай бұрын

@Coldass Hhhhhh davis ducked comey? Comey was not undeafted when he fought lopez and comey is not well rounded fighter a c+ fighter tank is the most complete fighter in boxing today speed timing power defense footwork he can do it all Lopez is good but he is not one punch lights out but tank is u cannot dispute that.

@Coldass

2 ай бұрын

@@Righthook.. lmao the most complete fighter today is Artur beterbiev, tanks resume is dookie water you cannot dispute that lol teofimo is p4p top 5 and tank has never fought a p4p elite fighter and yet teo has fought 2 undefeated p4p champs in loma and tayler what has tank done his best win was an old washed gamboa

I would have Roy Jones on this list at around the A or B tier. I am a huge fan of Naoya but I think S is a little high for him I would put him down to A. I think he is more skilled than hard puncher. A lot of his KOs are of good timing. S tier in my opinion are guys that can drop you with glancing blows and in my opinion Naoya isnt that.

@Kooljupiter

4 ай бұрын

EXACTLY!!!

@TheWill0fStrength

4 ай бұрын

He's S-... And the only Asian on the list ..

This was so much fun, and so educational. Thanks for doing it. A lot of my favorite boxers were on this list, and ranked highly, as were tons more I need to learn about. Your channel does so much to spread knowledge about boxing - keep it up.

This is quality as usual, thanks!!!

Great list man. Thought that GGG was pretty low and I wish you talked about Superman. Didnt think he would be S tier.

One fighter with crazy knockout power who I'm surprised isn't on this list is Roy Jones Jr.

@dtill5322

4 ай бұрын

Exactly 💯 bro

AWESOME VIDEO! Loved it keep it up

This is a really fun idea love the concept!

Golovkin C😂 This man is on something

Surprised not to see Max Baer or Jersey Joe, from Britain Sir Hendry Cooper was always renown for his KO power but can understand not being on the list and Randolph Turpin too, But in fairness to you very fairly done

I’m very happy to see a great channel like this rate

Guaranteed heat from this channel every time 🔥

A pound for pound list with no Manny Is straight criminal 😕

@nittygritty7503

4 ай бұрын

Gay

@damianoabbina9967

4 ай бұрын

Also I think he should've put Ibeabuchi too, that guy was a beast during his prime

@jaegerschtulmann

4 ай бұрын

Manny would be S tier on speed and volume but certainly not on power. Yes Manny is amazing and one of the best ever, just not the one-punch man everyone on the first 2 tiers here were!.

@PestiLencE638

3 ай бұрын

@@ironwill8354 blasphemy! Have u seen his fights when he was still young?? Who other boxers that are once flyweight that KOs welterweights??

@zadeh79

3 ай бұрын

Manny was weak

Sonny Liston one of the most devastating punchers tf wrong with you 😂😂

@angelvalle6515

3 ай бұрын

He was a bull

@bossplayermfs5972

Ай бұрын

He’s one of these analytic guys they don’t know anything about boxing or any other sport for that matters.

@bossplayermfs5972

Ай бұрын

He’s one of these analytic guys they don’t know anything about boxing or any other sport for that matters.

@theentertainmentnation4694

6 күн бұрын

in the stone age he also lost to journeymen

great video man!

Thanks for the video, BLTV EXTRA

I see foreman as an incredibly strong dude rather than a bomber, of course he hits like a truck but he's like an absolute tank, he had volume, he could move around and wrestle and manipulate people, he was just really really strong

@marricksinon2057

4 ай бұрын

this is a great take. foreman was just a very strong man, who happened to learn to box

@bust3dstr8

4 ай бұрын

An off balanced arm punch from Big George would drop people as fast as some of the most technically perfect fully loaded over hands of other heavyweights.

@yurirubimyuri6682

4 ай бұрын

Earnie Shavers is more strong

@Heaveaway23

4 ай бұрын

Shavers had more snap in his punch but foreman rattled your skeleton with a jab

@yurirubimyuri6682

4 ай бұрын

@@Heaveaway23 Muhammad Ali ja disse que Earnie Shavers é mais forte, e Ron Lyle e todos os outros que enfrentaram os dois dizem que Earnie shavers bate mais forte mas também é mais forte fisicamente

The Execution of Roberto Duran by Thomas Hearns was scary af

@Lonelysportofboxing

4 ай бұрын

Hearn’s most scariest knockout in my opinion has to be Pipino Cuevas

From then narration to the music i love your videos!

I cant believe how well done this list is! love your videos

@roxy9379

4 ай бұрын

This guy glazed the shit outta Jackson

@alphonseelric5722

4 ай бұрын

​​@@roxy9379 he only mythologizes boxers that will appeal to casuals. This is like 10 levels below Ring's actual list, which was very well considered.

@roxy9379

4 ай бұрын

@@alphonseelric5722 Bro gotta make up what he thinks

I can only thank you so much into giving us all, boxing fans, such nice material, man. Thanks a lot!

Beterbiev is solid S class. 100% KO ratio as a pro. He went up to cruiserweight during the amateurs and was still knocking people out in under 3 rounds. Dropped Usyk with a body blow as well. Edit: Not many people know this but Gvozdyck was being hailed as the LHW king. He has a large variety of punching arsenal, way more than Bivol. He also has a high IQ in KO set ups. He did everything right against Beterbiev but Artur was simply on another level.

@gamersinger5118

4 ай бұрын

@FloresRain I wouldn't say Bivol really has that much of a variety of a punching arsenal in general. He is a very basic boxer but has mastered those basics like very very few ever have. Everything else I might have to agree with. He always finds a way to finish a fight and though boxers do not fight as often as they used to these days that is still very impressive for a modern day boxer.

@FloresRain

4 ай бұрын

@gamersinger5118 I agree 👍 What I've noted is that Bivol has more than 4 different back step variations to his defensive foot work which works wonderfully for managing distance and delivering accurate one 1 and 2 combos.

@gamersinger5118

4 ай бұрын

@@FloresRain Basically he possesses a primary basic skillset but he has utility in how to use them in pretty much any situation. Thus why I consider it a mastery over the basics. Good insight on your part. Bivol is the only man who can beat Beterbiev at his best at htis point but will he? I really hope that fight happens sooner rather than later for both their sakes.

@FloresRain

4 ай бұрын

@gamersinger5118 good breakdown. I've been wanting Bivol vs Gvozdyck and Beterbiev for years. These are underrated super fights people are sleeping on. I also thought Kovalev and Ward were gonna fight these guys back then. Such a shame.

@dexterspeights3484

4 ай бұрын

Beterbiev is a natural-born-killer in the ring with ferocious punching power in both hands!

I'm surprised Hagler isn't there. No, he didn't possess one punch KO power, but his punches were hard and wore people down. His 84% KO percentage is among the best ever. I would rate him a C.

@SoulAlmighty1660

4 ай бұрын

I think that has more to do with iq. usyk also wears down his opponents but his power like usaid isnt the best

@nyobunknown6983

4 ай бұрын

@@SoulAlmighty1660 Usyk's bunches seem to have a lot less effect than Hagler's. Hagler hurt Hearns every time he hit him. Usyk has never devastated anybody like that.

Some of your best work 👌

Great video! I like this video format and I hope you come back full-time! I miss the days of looking forward to boxing legend TV videos. My list is: Deontay wilder, George foreman, Sonny liston, Julian jackson, Gerald McClellan, Sam Langford, Sugar Ray Robinson, Smokin' Joe Frazier, Joe Gans, Shannon Briggs and Joe Louis!

@ynorb9573

4 ай бұрын

Wilder is probably the hardest puncher in the world (not counting people from MMA like Francis, robelis or lewis) who are debatably above him

Foreman and Tyson were scary knockout artists...but the guy whose K.Os scare me the most even when I watch him now, is Julian Jackson. Watch his K.Os but look at the way the opponents drop. The way their bodies dropped is super scary. They were out cold before their bodies hit the floor. Insane!

Morrison's Left Hook was a lot faster, shorter and more powerful than Frazier's. Frazier was the more accomplished boxer. But Morrison's Left Hook should rate a few tiers higher. Both Bert Sugar and Jim Lampley said Morrison had the best Left Hook in 90s Heavyweights. Frazier should be lower than Tua.

@GamingStopCentral

4 ай бұрын

100% Agreed!

@BreakingBad2020

4 ай бұрын

facts

@alexlane9099

3 ай бұрын

Tua never rised up to the occasion he had 1 shot and lost it. Sometimes in boxing that all you get. David Tua blew it.

Great video. Thank you

A lil unrelated but absolutely love the music used in the video, it made for an amazing aesthetic in my opinion so please keep it up!

Good list. There's always going to be points to nit-pick but I think you've done a good job. The biggest nit-pick would be Hearns. The man has nasty power at many different weight classes. I think he deserves to be A.

Ernie Shaver is the hardest hitter. His peers Ali, Foreman, Frazier etc. I meant Ernie Shaver, in person. In person he was a very nice man.

@Falcone-en4wl

4 ай бұрын

It seems even Stallone was on his victims list, during the Rocky III retakes 🙂

@terrytari1891

4 ай бұрын

@@Falcone-en4wl They are both nice GUUYS!!!!

BLTV playing that Degeneration-X music💯💪🏽Keep the great work coming brother

Great fxxxxx list best one I’ve seen

Mike was like a 12 gauge shotgun if he ever got close. Deontay is like a musket. He will miss a lot, but one shot landing could do a lot of hurt.

Corrie Sanders was an incredibly hard puncher and was very unlucky to not be allowed to fight the heavyweights in his era because according to Lennox Lewis they avoided the South African at all costs because he hit so hard. I remember the fight against Vladimir Klitschko when he was passed his best he still knocked him out in the second round and Klitschko went on to say it was the hardest he had ever been hit.

@user-pt4fl3xw8z

4 ай бұрын

Earnie Shavers hit stronger than anyone

@johnsherman4035

4 ай бұрын

Had Sanders had proper management and promotion, he could have made a lot of waves. He had issues with defense and conditioning, which a top shelf trainer could have remidied.Shame he languished in South Africa.

awesome video!

This video, with the drum n bass in the back🤌 made my day.

I kinda feel Jersey Joe Walcott should be in there. He was one of only two people to drop Marciano (And Rocky bounced up quick from Archie Moore but Walcott made him look up with surprise, with Marciano himself saying he felt THAT punch out of all the other ones in his career). He also knocked out other Heavyweight greats in his time. He could really hit, even if he wasn't a brawler. He was a counter-puncher, that did indeed have amazing timing, precision and angles but also REALLY heavy hands.

@enigma9971

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely but his power didn't compare to Rocky's. Nobody's did. Archie Moore said every one of his punches felt like a truck full of rocks and said he punched harder than any heavyweight who ever lived.

@azraelknightquest5754

4 ай бұрын

@@enigma9971 I didn't say he should be over Rocky. Just in the list.

Sam Langford a absolute legend

You always post great content dude thanks. But i got one question... Where is jimmy smith?

Hey man, I know we have no ironclad way to measure and compare and this is ultimately a subjective endeavour. I might not agree with a lot of your placements, but I certainly enjoyed the ride. Amazing video.

the power of George Foreman makes Ali's victory in Zaire in 1974 even more miraculous. I still can't believe what he did there. I saw it live when I was a child on a small black and white TV

@warrax111

3 ай бұрын

it was cheated

@thegodfather1924

6 күн бұрын

​@@warrax111😂😂😂😂😂

@warrax111

5 күн бұрын

@@thegodfather1924 yea, forman was druged. also, they made ropes more loose than normal. They prepared it for high humidity and heat, because they knew, Foreman didn't have best stamina. He was usually fatiqued after 4-5 rounds.

I would love to see a video on Langford

Great video

I love boxing... to even have debates between these people brings me joy

Larry Holmes' jab alone should earn him a place on it's own, and Jersey Joe Walcott probably should've featured too, but great list!

@Pedro_Le_Chef

4 ай бұрын

JJW and Max Baer should have been here, but Larry just didn't hit that hard despite having a great jab.

Great list the only thing I would change is Liston along with Foreman since Chuck Weppner who fought both said that Liston hit harder

I love the Street Fighter music and player select sounds. Great nostalgia.

Awesome video

Hearns KO Duran is the single hardest punch I’ve ever seen at ANY weight

Lennox Lewis is at least an A ranked puncher. The strenght and punch-power he had was MUCH greater then given credit for. Lewis was near a perfect heavyweight who had the skillset of a well schooled boxer and the mindset of a wild lion. He was a boxer first and a finnisher afterwards. But if he really wanted you gone - he would send you out hard and fast. The 2nd Rahman fight, the Ruddock fight, the Botha fight, the Grant fight, the Golota fight etc are fights where he just plain-out wanted em OUT!

@DaDominicanDawg

4 ай бұрын

Facts he cracked Ruddock with one right hand and he fell like a horse falls when it gets shot , Ruddock was washed but he toppled over crazy

@WarioSaysSo

4 ай бұрын

@@DaDominicanDawg Yeah that was major power!!!

@magacop5180

4 ай бұрын

LL was just big. He’s a fraud who ducked Tyson and Holyfield in their primes.

@magacop5180

4 ай бұрын

He ducked Bowe until he was washed up too

@WarioSaysSo

4 ай бұрын

@@magacop5180 WT#! Are you serious? You decide to take a side with Riddick Bowe over Lennox Lewis....when it freakin was Bowe who DUMPED the WBC world title belt in a trash can to get rid of facing Lennox Lewis - so he could fight a drug-struggling Michael Dokes who was shotgun shot from what he was and then a pointless unrated journeyman in Jess Fergusson. Bowe and his manager Newman gave Lewis BS worth of offers that Lewis's manager at the time declined but still accepted afterweards due to Lewis wanted to get at Bowe for all his trash & insults since the 1988 OG - woopsie-doo Bowe & newman then says "to late" we will go with another road. That followed with the WBC belt trashing. And then Lewis still wanted to fight Bowe in 1993 and 1994 but nothing came. In 1996 Lewis was gunning for Tyson as first priority since Tyson had taken his WBC title from McCall who had in his turn repeatedly turned down Lewis a rematch. Well Lewis got it in 1997 and blasted him to quit. Bowe was supposted to fight Lewis in 1996 and then 1997 but since he could not get past ANdrew Golota in 96, he wanted redemption and postponed there fight. Bowe again gets handled by Golota but again escapes with another "W" due to stupid son of a gun Golota can't fight by the rules. And what? Riddick Bowew retires in 1997? In his prime age years? At only 29. Bowe never wanted to face Lewis and never wanted to fight any threts. WHy do you think Holyfield and other HOF HW have critizised Bowe in recent years for walking away from what should have been his biggest rivalry fight of his entire career? Bowe was all talk and no walk. Lennox Lewis fought near EVREY man from there era and defeated them all with only Michael Moorer the other man he did not get (after he lost to McCall that unification went south). So please, Bowe was the only one ducking. Lewis would just like in the Olympics have defeated him. Bowe had to go wars with Holyfield and was even dropped while Lewis out-boxed him twice! Never lost control.

I’m just happy BLTV is back in business!

Great vid

I don't have a problem with your list except for Marciano....He was NOT a one punch KO guy, he's more like a heavy handed guy who breaks his opponents down piece by piece. I would put him somewhere in the middle or toward the end of the A list. I think him and Jeffries go hand in hand. 2 heavy handed guy who break down their opponents and take away their hearts the longer the fights go on.....

@surrealistidealist

4 ай бұрын

Marciano ko'd more than half his opponents in the first 3 rounds. Only 3 of his opponents were never ko'd by him at all, and they only fought him in the developmental period of his career before he learned how to make his left as deadly as his right. Those who lasted a while with him were usually defensive masters. But there were also a lot of fights he overtrained for, which made him slow and stiff in the opening rounds. He also fought with a bad back, a bad right shoulder, bad right elbow and a bad knuckle on his right fist. He was on antibiotics, recovering from the flu, when he fought Lee Savold.

@SirLuciferVampiro

4 ай бұрын

@@surrealistidealist Everything you say is true. The stats are all true....But the eyes test tell me different. There are 2 kinds of power in boxing. The one punch KO power, a la Hearns, J. Jackson, E. Shaves, etc....And then there's the heavy handed guys who break them down piece by piece, like Rocky. This is who Rocky is if you forget about the stats and just look at his fights....And to tell you the truth, if I was a boxer, I would much rather face a one punch KO guy rather than a guy like Rocky. You don't feel nothing from a one punch KO guy, maybe a little bit humiliated after the fight. But with a guy like Rocky?.....You are in HELL for how many rounds you manage to last. Everything hurts!!!!

I don't think tank should be ranked so high with so little quantity opponents

@charlieprince8671

4 ай бұрын

I understand what you're saying but to play devil's advocate Wilder doesn't have a bevy of high quality opponents either but would you really argue that he isn't one of the hardest punchers of all time?

@mrsrt5038

4 ай бұрын

@charlieprince8671 I would argue that wilder and tank wouldn't have the ko percentage if they fought the same opposition and Anthony Joshua or lomachenko.

Great list

would love a video on inoue, you're the goat for videos and I think he deserves one.

Tank on the same level as those other names is crazy.

@Supersupremegang

4 ай бұрын

29 fights 27 knockouts?

@THISISLolesh

4 ай бұрын

@@Supersupremegang vs who? The best name on his record came up two weight classes to fight him.

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Classifying Mike Tyson as an "old school legend" absolutely made me feel old this morning! Now get off my lawn! Seriously, though, I think you've done a terrific job at one of the most complicated and contentious topics for boxing fans: cross-era comparisons. I think it's inevitable for all such lists to have a bias toward the present but on balance, I think you've represented the various eras well.

Great video. I love the music.

Wilder is so lucky he’s got that ridiculous power, because he’s not a “boxer” in any sense of the word.

Tank B, Inoue A, GGG B imo. Hard list to make. Especially with greats who fought outside their natural weights. I think pacman should be on here too. He carried power through so many divisions.

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6 seconds in the video and this my favorite channel or the week.