References of the hardest hitter of all time?

[SuzieQ49]

180 would be better to say, He usually was at 180 anyway!

Yes Rocky was deffinently P4P the hardest hitter of all time, but who was the overall hardest hitter? I have a tie between Gerry Cooney and Earnie Shavers...

rocky was never 180lb, what are u talking about.


rocky was always 185lb + in his prime

[XionComrade]

Lets just say 180....lol

[ricecrispi]

it was 185 on the button.

Morrison. Mercer said Morrison hit him the hardest and mercer has taken some of the hardest shots ever.

[XionComrade]

Lol its either Gerry Cooney or Earnie Shavers, those guys are tied for 1st place, its not Foreman, Morrison, Moore, or Marciano. Expecially not Tyson.

[hemichromis]

p4p hardest hitters are maricano or dempsey i think marciano gets it because dempsey was a combo puncher whereas marciano was a one punch ko artist, jou louis said 'it hurt to bump into him'

ali has said shavers and foreman, from what i have seen shavers only had a good right cross which was ballistic! but everything else was mediocre. foreman could hit you from anywhere and make it hurt thats why i think he must be the hardest hitter, in his first career he had a better ko percentage then anyone ever- 92.5%

[hemichromis]

i have found some quotes:

Jimmy Tillis: "He hit me man and knocked me face down on the canvas. I was in the land of make-belive. I heard zaxophones an trombnes. I saw little blue **** and they were all smoking cigars and drink whiskey!!"

Muhammad Ali: "Earnie Shavers hit me so hard he shook up my kinfold back in Africa!"

Larry Holmes: "Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter...including Mike Tyson"


these are all about shavers

[hemichromis]

i think this quote is all from holmes

"Well I'll tell you I was ****ing Earnie pretty good, and his eyes were bloody. And I said "You're crazy to take all this ****. You're not gonna win." And he said "I'm gonna knock you out." Then he came open for a right uppercut. And when I got ready to throw the right uppercut, knowing Earnie was hurt, I dropped my left hand. He came with his overhand right. He put me down. He hit me so damn hard. I tell everybody I thought lightning struck me. That's how hard he hit me, Mike Tyson didn't hit so hard but getting hit by Earnie Shavers was like getting hit by lightning."

[XionComrade]

It looked like he got strucked by lightning to! O.o

[catskills23]

According to micheal spinks mike tyson hit harder than gerry cooney .

[ricecrispi]

problem is jimmy ellis, ali, and holmes were good boxers that didn't get rocked all that much (except Ali who took too many punches.)

Ali says Shavers with Shaver's right hand and I have no doubt about that. Ali's been hit with a good amount of punches to know it what's a good punch but also puts a little ****e and drama into everything he says.
I think Morrison would be second because Mercer every punch concieable to man kind and listed morrison hands down over all the fighters he faced in 80's-90's from Holmes, holyfield, lewis, and klitskho