My Top 5 Biggest Punchers

This is My List of My Top 5 Biggest Punchers

1. 1. George Foreman. The two-time heavyweight champion finished his career with a record of 76-5, with 68 knockouts. He retired in 1997 after coming back ten and a half years earlier in March of 1987. Having retired after losing to Jimmy Young on March 17, 1977, George became a Christian evangelist and preacher, and remained so until his death at age 76 in March of 2025. 2.
   2. Mike Tyson. Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion ever at 20 years and 5 months old, on November 22, 1986 by knocking out Trevor Berbick in brutal fashion in two rounds. He defended his title successfully 9 times until his knockout loss to Buster Douglas on February 10, 1990. He returned to boxing after a three year jail sentence, and won the title again in March of 1996 with his KO of Frank Bruno. He retired in 2005 with a record of 50-7, with 44 knockouts and two no-contests.
   3. Lennox Lewis. Lennox won the heavyweight championship three times, first in 1992 and then again in 1997 when he avenged his first loss to Oliver McCall with an easy stoppage. He would retain that title until losing to Hasim Rahman in April 2001, then knock Rahman out with a spectacular fourth round right hand seven months later. He would retire for good in January of 2004, and finished with a record of 41-2-1, with 32 knockouts.
   4. Earnie Shavers. Known for perhaps the best right hand in all of heavyweight boxing history, Earnie challenged for the heavyweight title twice, and fought valiantly despite losing. He went the 15 round distance with Muhammad Ali in September of 1997, then knocked champ Larry Holmes down hard in their bout two years later. He retired with a record of 76-14-1, with an amazing 70 knockouts. He is not in the International Boxing Hall of Fame, which to me is perhaps the biggest travesty in the IBHOF’s 35 year history.
   5.  Sonny Liston. With no official birthday, Charles ‘Sonny’ Liston is a tragic figure in boxing history, but a tremendous fighter in his own right. He had crushing power in both hands, and his easy destruction of Floyd Patterson twice displayed it for the whole world to see. Despite his loss to Cassius Clay on February 25, 1964 and his one round loss, which he threw by the way, he remains one of the top five greatest punchers in boxing history to me. He retired in 1970 with a record of 50-4, and 39 knockouts and died tragically late that same year.

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