Was tysons the hardest puncher in history

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: Dec 20, 2004 Posts: 386

Could a case be made for tyson being the hardest puncher in history?.

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: Jul 30, 2004 Posts: 1048

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Yes a case could be made.

Shavers is often regarded as the hardest puncher but Mike not he flattened Holmes

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: Jan 08, 2006 Posts: 480

Not the hardest, but one of the hardest. And what he had with it aswell, was effectiveness. Most effective Heavyweight puncher ever. Think about that.

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 459

Foreman, Shavers and Liston were all "harder' than Mike I believe.

But yes, none of these guys had the handspeed or accuracy of Mike, making them far less effective.

**Donate Points** · Olympics Joined: Sep 06, 2005 Posts: 126

pete321 wrote:

Foreman, Shavers and Liston were all "harder' than Mike I believe.

But yes, none of these guys had the handspeed or accuracy of Mike, making them far less effective.

Exactamondo! U can have enough power to shatter concrete but if u dont know how to deliver it, dont have any speed, U can fuh'git abouddit! I had to find out the hard when I first got into boxing. It was a humbling experience for me, being a heavyweight, and getting picked apart in sparring by a 5'11 professional lightweight by the name of Fatal Freddie Ladd. I learned that day, that my power didnt mean sh*t coz I had no skill at that time. I think Mike ranks in the top 5 hardest punchers of all time. Anyone that says Mike wasnt a 1 punch KO fighter, needs to look at some films again.

Peace

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: Jun 12, 2004 Posts: 1142

Most effective and best puncher ever from any divsion, yes. Hardest puncher ever? No.

**Donate Points** · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:08 pm

he may not punch the hardest, but he's definitley the best.

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: Dec 20, 2004 Posts: 386

Well according to freddie roach and sparring partner cory t rex sanders wald klitschko hits harder than tyson but according to francois botha tyson hits much harder than wald klitschko . that i can not understand.

**Donate Points** · Contender Joined: Feb 08, 2007 Posts: 236

I think a case could be made he was the hardest puncher, but there are many other contenders. No one had the mixture of power and speed tho. And i agree with most of you as he was mch more effective than all teh other big hitters!

**Donate Points** · Training Joined: Mar 14, 2006 Posts: 25

I would say NO man ever had a harder more effective upper cut then he did. He put so much leverage and force pushing up from his powerfull legs into it, that when it connected it was deadly.

**Donate Points** · Olympics Joined: Sep 06, 2005 Posts: 126

midnightmadman wrote:

I would say NO man ever had a harder more effective upper cut then he did. He put so much leverage and force pushing up from his powerfull legs into it, that when it connected it was deadly.

Agreed......I have never seen an uppercut that deadly. As for Wlad being a harder puncher, could be true because of Wlad's height and the distance he throws from plus the amount of weight he puts into it. On the inside I cant see Wlad hitting harder because he cant generate much leverage, torque or snap and that can be said for any tall fighter like that.

**Donate Points** · Professional Joined: Aug 17, 2005 Posts: 181

I don't know if you can say he was the hardest puncher ever.
But if you look at size and weight classes then Tyson definitely was the hardest puncher in his class.
It was insane because Mike was a small guy (you could even make a case that he was more a cruiserweight early in his career) yet he was knocking out full grown men almost twice his size and weight while Tyson was still a kid himself. That's very abnormal. He showed that size doesn't really matter. Hard punches are defined by it's speed and accuracy too.

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: Oct 28, 2004 Posts: 1734

when it comes to technique mike delivered them like no other , but i wouldnt say it with a single punch he was the hardest ever

**Donate Points** · World Champion Joined: Dec 20, 2004 Posts: 386

el_renegado wrote:

midnightmadman wrote:

I would say NO man ever had a harder more effective upper cut then he did. He put so much leverage and force pushing up from his powerfull legs into it, that when it connected it was deadly.

Agreed......I have never seen an uppercut that deadly. As for Wlad being a harder puncher, could be true because of Wlad's height and the distance he throws from plus the amount of weight he puts into it. On the inside I cant see Wlad hitting harder because he cant generate much leverage, torque or snap and that can be said for any tall fighter like that.

are you saying his uppercut was harder than any punch thrown by shavers or foreman.

**Donate Points** · Professional Joined: Oct 09, 2006 Posts: 184

There are other punchers that are not boxers.

Like Fujita and Fedor.