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Since Boxing Day is tomorrow yeah, I know it's some random British thing with sales and leftovers, not actual boxing the sport but I'm bored as hell. So this is my tier list on the hardest punchers. Mix of MMA and Boxing guys.
Useless Tier
Nate Diaz
He is a Durable fighter with a great chin and throws volume like he's shadowboxing a ghost. Can't finish a guy to save his life. All his fights are wars of attrition, not knockouts. He beats you by being annoying, bleeding on you Overall very low KO threat.
Colby Covington
Cardio merchant. Pace merchant. Pressure merchant But power. Completely missing.. Throws a million punches and somehow managed to hurts no one .Wins fights by drowning opponents in points his entire game plan is volume, volume and volume. Nothing else. He can't finish a guy at a professional level.
Mid tier
Max Holloway
I know controversial but imo Blessed era Max is a volume god and precision, pace, breaks your will over 25 minutes. But raw KO power. Mid as hell. He chips away like a woodpecker, not a sledgehammer.. Calvin Kattar match is an example. Lands 445 strikes busts Kattar's face to bits, but can't drop him once. Decision win. Respect the legend, but power ain't his superpower.
Anthony Joshua
Big, scary looking heavyweight with muscles on muscles and knocks out bums for fun but against real elites. All that energy just evaporates away. Decent boxing fundamentals but he just doesn't have the power of a heavyweight to end fights in wimp. Gets dropped by chubby Ruiz multiple times and couldn't scare Usyk at all. Overrated power. All muscle show, no true heavyweight devastation when it matters.
Lennox Lewis
I ironically think he is one of the GOATs of boxing despite putting him in the mid tier. He is one of the most complete boxer we have ever seen. Great jav like a piston, textbook technique, dominated the era But raw, scary power Not his calling card. He could crack, don't get it twisted. He folded Klitschko but a lot of his KOs came late after breaking guys down systematically. Never had that one-punch fear factor like the true KO monsters. Guys like Holyfield and Rahman took his best shots early and kept coming. Great heavyweight and elite resume, but power wise? Solid mid
Good tier
Illia Topuria
Ilia Topuria is as powerful as a fighter can get in the lower divisions. Featherweight frame but punches like a vengeful middleweight. That KO on Volkanovski wasn't accumulation or luck one clean shot and one of the toughest chins in MMA history. Compact, sits down on everything and pound-for-pound one of the hardest hitters right now but physics and weight matter and for his weight it is as powerful as one could get. Hence he lives in this tier
Conor McGregor
His left hand is legendary for a reason when it lands flush with that timing and precision it is over. Aldo frozen at 13 seconds, Eddie Alvarez dropped and finished But it's conditional power. He deadly early, deadly accurate, but doesn't have the raw force that carries. Against Khabib or Poirier. The pop fades, and suddenly it's not scaring anyone. Good tier because it can end you spectacularly but it's not the freakish kind that ignores size or durability.
Great tier
Deontay Wilder
Bronze Bomber's right hand is complete freak Trash the boxing skills, clown the tier defense but he can lose every round and still erase you with one touch. His power carried him throughout his career. Dropped Fury seven times. Needs very little contact to end fights. He never was consistent but he was nuclear. Could make an argument for Superman tier but I think at his level there needs to be good boxing fundamentals.
Alex Pereira
Poatan is the definition of this tier. Sniper like accuracy with sledgehammers for hands. Most of the time he doesn't even look like he's swinging hard and then boom, lights out. Starched Adesanya cold twice, flattened Jiri like he was nothing, and just slept Hill. Moved up divisions and still carrying that kill shot power. Kickboxing base, stone hands and zero emotions. Great tier because he is surgical, repeatable devastation across weights. One of the scariest punchers in UFC rn
Mike Tyson
Prime Iron Mike was violence in human form. Used his signature peeka boo style to dominate the division. All his punches were short, explosive hooks and uppercuts that didn't need wind up. Berbick stumbling like a zombie, Spinks quitting after tasting hell in 91 seconds. Heavyweights crumbled and folded instantly. Controlled demolition, not wild swings. Great terror that made the division afraid. The whole heavyweight division in his era was scared to fight him because one clean shot and you were gone
Superman Tier
George Foreman
Big George is the definition of this tier. Wasn't explosive. Just massive, looping bone crushing clubbing shots that destroyed people, had Thor hammers for fists. Just imagine someone with deontay wilder's power in both the hands and with good fundamentals and one of the best chins in history. That is George Foreman. Also jas the greatest comeback ever at 45, fat, slow, getting schooled by Moorer for 9 rounds, lands one single right hand from the dinosaur era and flat lined him. One of the best punchers of all time that somehow got even more terrifying with age. Pure ungodly force
Francis Ngannou
Francis is the scariest to ever wear 4oz gloves just raw brute force . recorded the hardest punch ever on the PowerKube, Lifted a 265lb Overeem clean off his feet, neck snapped back. Stipe Miocic, toughest heavyweight chin in MMA, ate everything from DC and JDS, then got dropped stiff by Francis. Even in boxing against Fury, he dropped the champ with a left hook Fury. Genetic freak from another era.
Agree or disagree? What are your thoughts?
Useless Tier
Nate Diaz
He is a Durable fighter with a great chin and throws volume like he's shadowboxing a ghost. Can't finish a guy to save his life. All his fights are wars of attrition, not knockouts. He beats you by being annoying, bleeding on you Overall very low KO threat.
Colby Covington
Cardio merchant. Pace merchant. Pressure merchant But power. Completely missing.. Throws a million punches and somehow managed to hurts no one .Wins fights by drowning opponents in points his entire game plan is volume, volume and volume. Nothing else. He can't finish a guy at a professional level.
Mid tier
Max Holloway
I know controversial but imo Blessed era Max is a volume god and precision, pace, breaks your will over 25 minutes. But raw KO power. Mid as hell. He chips away like a woodpecker, not a sledgehammer.. Calvin Kattar match is an example. Lands 445 strikes busts Kattar's face to bits, but can't drop him once. Decision win. Respect the legend, but power ain't his superpower.
Anthony Joshua
Big, scary looking heavyweight with muscles on muscles and knocks out bums for fun but against real elites. All that energy just evaporates away. Decent boxing fundamentals but he just doesn't have the power of a heavyweight to end fights in wimp. Gets dropped by chubby Ruiz multiple times and couldn't scare Usyk at all. Overrated power. All muscle show, no true heavyweight devastation when it matters.
Lennox Lewis
I ironically think he is one of the GOATs of boxing despite putting him in the mid tier. He is one of the most complete boxer we have ever seen. Great jav like a piston, textbook technique, dominated the era But raw, scary power Not his calling card. He could crack, don't get it twisted. He folded Klitschko but a lot of his KOs came late after breaking guys down systematically. Never had that one-punch fear factor like the true KO monsters. Guys like Holyfield and Rahman took his best shots early and kept coming. Great heavyweight and elite resume, but power wise? Solid mid
Good tier
Illia Topuria
Ilia Topuria is as powerful as a fighter can get in the lower divisions. Featherweight frame but punches like a vengeful middleweight. That KO on Volkanovski wasn't accumulation or luck one clean shot and one of the toughest chins in MMA history. Compact, sits down on everything and pound-for-pound one of the hardest hitters right now but physics and weight matter and for his weight it is as powerful as one could get. Hence he lives in this tier
Conor McGregor
His left hand is legendary for a reason when it lands flush with that timing and precision it is over. Aldo frozen at 13 seconds, Eddie Alvarez dropped and finished But it's conditional power. He deadly early, deadly accurate, but doesn't have the raw force that carries. Against Khabib or Poirier. The pop fades, and suddenly it's not scaring anyone. Good tier because it can end you spectacularly but it's not the freakish kind that ignores size or durability.
Great tier
Deontay Wilder
Bronze Bomber's right hand is complete freak Trash the boxing skills, clown the tier defense but he can lose every round and still erase you with one touch. His power carried him throughout his career. Dropped Fury seven times. Needs very little contact to end fights. He never was consistent but he was nuclear. Could make an argument for Superman tier but I think at his level there needs to be good boxing fundamentals.
Alex Pereira
Poatan is the definition of this tier. Sniper like accuracy with sledgehammers for hands. Most of the time he doesn't even look like he's swinging hard and then boom, lights out. Starched Adesanya cold twice, flattened Jiri like he was nothing, and just slept Hill. Moved up divisions and still carrying that kill shot power. Kickboxing base, stone hands and zero emotions. Great tier because he is surgical, repeatable devastation across weights. One of the scariest punchers in UFC rn
Mike Tyson
Prime Iron Mike was violence in human form. Used his signature peeka boo style to dominate the division. All his punches were short, explosive hooks and uppercuts that didn't need wind up. Berbick stumbling like a zombie, Spinks quitting after tasting hell in 91 seconds. Heavyweights crumbled and folded instantly. Controlled demolition, not wild swings. Great terror that made the division afraid. The whole heavyweight division in his era was scared to fight him because one clean shot and you were gone
Superman Tier
George Foreman
Big George is the definition of this tier. Wasn't explosive. Just massive, looping bone crushing clubbing shots that destroyed people, had Thor hammers for fists. Just imagine someone with deontay wilder's power in both the hands and with good fundamentals and one of the best chins in history. That is George Foreman. Also jas the greatest comeback ever at 45, fat, slow, getting schooled by Moorer for 9 rounds, lands one single right hand from the dinosaur era and flat lined him. One of the best punchers of all time that somehow got even more terrifying with age. Pure ungodly force
Francis Ngannou
Francis is the scariest to ever wear 4oz gloves just raw brute force . recorded the hardest punch ever on the PowerKube, Lifted a 265lb Overeem clean off his feet, neck snapped back. Stipe Miocic, toughest heavyweight chin in MMA, ate everything from DC and JDS, then got dropped stiff by Francis. Even in boxing against Fury, he dropped the champ with a left hook Fury. Genetic freak from another era.
Agree or disagree? What are your thoughts?
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