One punch knockout artists.

[Athenry04]

Think Valero needs a mention here also.

 

[Street Samurai]

i don’t recall prince naseem ever knocking anyone unconscious with one punch. like ever.

Bungu??

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

Bungu??

nah. sat bungu on his ass but he wasn’t out. just rolled over and gave up.

 

[Badr Hari]

dmitry kudryashov (probably the hardest puncher i’ve ever seen, overall):



there used to be a great kudryashov highlight on YT that had no music and all original fight audio, the sound of his punches is horrific

Good one. You reminded me now of Dorticos too. He is a great one punch KO artist who is not a HW.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

Think Valero needs a mention here also.

he really doesn’t tbh. never knocked anyone out cold, let alone with one punch

 

[Street Samurai]

nah. sat bungu on his ass but he wasn’t out. just rolled over and gave up.

Youre not wrong. He was hurt but it seems like he gave up more than anything.

As for the question, its a cliche, but LL, Wilder, Shavers, Foreman and Tyson had their fair share of one punch ko.

Under hw, its more rare, and most of the good names have already been named. One that wasnt named is little red lopez. Really weird fighter, his punches looked slow and pushy, but guys were getting melt by them

 

[Street Samurai]

Not an atg by any stretch of the imagination,.but julian letterlough was a hell of a.puncher

 

[Athenry04]

he really doesn’t tbh. never knocked anyone out cold, let alone with one punch

Really? Fuck my mind was playing tricks on me. Could have sworn he knocked a few cold, off to rewatch.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

Really? Fuck my mind was playing tricks on me. Could have sworn he knocked a few cold, off to rewatch.

beat a LOT of asses but he’s a beterbiev/tyson type. just unloaded with brutal combos & pressure and made people fold. good puncher no doubt but not really a one-punch guy

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

Not an atg by any stretch of the imagination,.but julian letterlough was a hell of a.puncher

wow. awakening some ancient memories there. good call



letterlough reminds me of allan green, at least stylistically. another great puncher btw

 

[ssx]

Lots of good names mentioned already... Naoya Inoue currently. I haven't seen Bob Foster and Ernie Shavers mentioned yet. I would guess Jimmy Wilde and Sam Langford too, especially since they were usually giving up a lot of size.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

Good one. You reminded me now of Dorticos too. He is a great one punch KO artist who is not a HW.

oh yeah, dorticos is a wiry snappy puncher with vicious power. beat the absolute shit out of kudryashov and many others. not the kind of functional/practical power you typically get from a cuban fighter.

 

[Badr Hari]

Lots of good names mentioned already... Naoya Inoue currently. I haven't seen Bob Foster and Ernie Shavers mentioned yet. I would guess Jimmy Wilde and Sam Langford too, especially since they were usually giving up a lot of size.

i mentioned Foster above. IMO he is the most impressive one punch KO artist ever (who is not a HW). I was about to say Langford but didn't say it because of lack of footage. And what about Sugar Ray Robinson? I think he deserves a mention too.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

i mentioned Foster above. IMO he is the most impressive one punch KO artist ever (who is not a HW). I was about to say Langford but didn't say it because of lack of footage. And what about Sugar Ray Robinson? I think he deserves a mention too.

well robinson is a “lack of footage” case as well. considering the sheer number of fights he had in his prime, usually against overmatched opposition, i’m sure he probably knocked a bunch of guys dead. we just can’t be sure because there’s no footage.

we’re reaching “yeah no shit” territory though lol i’m pretty confident everyone in this forum knows guys like mcclellan/sugar ray R/julian jackson/joe louis can punch. i like the danny lopez shoutout though he was another pressure/volume/power combination fighter. not really a one-punch artist.

 

[BluntTrauma21]

In terms of some guys from the last number of years whose style actually relies on setting up huge, single shots, I think of Andy Lee and Nonito Donaire. There are bigger punchers than those two, but their styles were explicitly reliant on setting up that one big shot.

I made a thread on Nonito having the most devastating left hook I've ever seen and I think Andy Lee has one of the most devastating right hooks I've ever seen from the southpaw side. He absolutely slept guys when he landed that hook on the money.

 

[Badr Hari]

well robinson is a “lack of footage” case as well. considering the sheer number of fights he had in his prime, usually against overmatched opposition, i’m sure he probably knocked a bunch of guys dead. we just can’t be sure because there’s no footage.

Someone posted a video here last year and even though the footage is pretty limited considering his legendary career, he was knocking people dead in that video one after the other lol.

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

let’s also give a shout to the new Sherdogger @Tim Witherspoon who had some vicious KO’s

 

[BluntTrauma21]

Thomas Williams Jr. had some wild offense but he threw fucking hammers.

 

[Cariñito]

I don't know if Earnie Shavers KOd everyone with one punch but I do know that he had 23 KOs in the first round, 50 in the first 3 rds and 7 fighters retired after being KOd by him.
Pretty noteworthy.

 

[RoyCisneros]

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