Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time was published in 2003, the writers of Ring Magazine ranked the 100 greatest punchers of all-time. Not unlike an all-time pound-for-pound ranking, this list compares fighters across different weight categories and different eras. This list was an opinion of the editors of The Ring Magazine, also know as simply Ring Magazine.

* 1. Joe Louis
* 2. Sam Langford
* 3. Jimmy Wilde
* 4. Archie Moore
* 5. Sandy Saddler
* 6. Julian Jackson
* 7. Jack Dempsey
* 8. Bob Fitzsimmons
* 9. George Foreman
* 10. Earnie Shavers
* 11. Sugar Ray Robinson
* 12. Ruben Olivares
* 13. Wilfredo Gomez
* 14. Rocky Marciano
* 15. Sonny Liston
* 16. Mike Tyson
* 17. Bob Foster
* 18. Thomas Hearns
* 19. Khaosai Galaxy
* 20. Alexis Arguello
* 21. Carlos Zarate
* 22. Max Baer
* 23. Rocky Graziano
* 24. Matthew Saad Muhammad
* 25. Rocky Sekorski
* 26. Danny Lopez
* 27. Gerald McClellan
* 28. Roberto Duran
* 29. Rodrigo Valdez
* 30. Felix Trinidad
* 31. Pipino Cuevas
* 32. Jim Jefferies
* 33. Lennox Lewis
* 34. Bennie Briscoe
* 35. Marvin Hagler
* 36. Edwin Rosario
* 37. Tommy Ryan
* 38. John Mugabi
* 39. Joe Frazier
* 40. Carlos Monzon
* 41. Tony Zale
* 42. Michael Spinks
* 43. Joe Gans
* 44. Elmer Ray
* 45. George Godfrey
* 46. Naseem Hamed
* 47. Alfonso Zamora
* 48. David Tua
* 49. Cleveland Williams
* 50. Julio Cesar Chavez
* 51. Tiger Jack Fox
* 52. Joe Walcott
* 53. Gerry Cooney
* 54. Al Bummy Davis
* 55. Max Schmeling
* 56. Florentino Fernandez
* 57. Henry Armstrong
* 58. Bob Satterfield
* 59. Al Hostak
* 60. Jesus Pimentel
* 61. Eugene Hart
* 62. Lew Jenkins
* 63. Harry Wills
* 64. Tom Sharkey
* 65. Terry McGovern
* 66. Jersey Joe Walcott
* 67. Kostya Tszyu
* 68. Leotis Martin
* 69. Buddy Baer
* 70. Donovan Ruddock
* 71. Jose Luis Ramirez
* 72. Tommy Gomez
* 73. Jose Napoles
* 74. Kid McCoy
* 75. Antonio Esparragoza
* 76. Ricardo Moreno
* 77. Evander Holyfield
* 78. Ike Williams
* 79. Luis Firpo
* 80. Ricardo Lopez
* 81. Humberto Gonzalez
* 82. Bobby Chacon
* 83. Jock McAvoy
* 84. Eduardo Lausse
* 85. Eder Jofre
* 86. Charley Burley
* 87. Mike McCallum
* 88. Salvador Sanchez
* 89. Roy Jones Jr.
* 90. Rodolfo Gonzalez
* 91. Nigel Benn
* 92. Bob Murphy
* 93. Paul Berlenbach
* 94. Battling Torres
* 95. Chalky Wright
* 96. George Chaney
* 97. Andy Ganigan
* 98. Fred Fulton
* 99. Ingemar Johansson
* 100. Charley White


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Nice to see 'The Brooklyn Terror' Terry McGovern in there but he should be top 50 for my money...

Also would like to see my favourite fighter of all time Wilfredo Gomez in the top ten.

Still, a stirling effort by the Ring magazine - any list will have it's detractors due to the subjective nature of the task.

Yes its near imposible to even get 2 people to agree on a list like this and i give the ring every respect for putting together such a list.

Shocked to see Michael Spinks at 42. One of my favourite fighters of all time and brilliant at being awkardly effective. But that hard a puncher ?? Dont think so.
But a great effort to produce such a great list.

I think McClellan was a huge puncher, but who exactly did he knock out apart from Jackson,Mugabi ? i believe he was a huge puncher, but was he a proven world class puncher to say "yeah lets rank him 27th amongst the 100 greatest punchers of all time" not for me.

Terry Norris was a bigger puncher than given credit for, but he was not really what id consider a big puncher, he was a consistent combination puncher more than anything. He like McClellan also destroyed Mugabi early.


I like Vitali Klitschko's power,size and strength, and i think he would of been a handful for any ATG HW just based on his size and his chin, but i cant rank him amongst those guys even though i believe, he would of beaten some of them, because he has not proved himself with wins over other great HW.

No question McClellan was a huge hitter, but i think he is ranked to highly based on achievement as a big puncher, if that makes sense

I cant believe they have Holyfield over Benn

The only case i could make for Holyfield was his knockdown of Riddick Bowe in the 3rd fight, and the fact he was able to put Tyson away. Tyson took some major league shots before being stopped, and Bowe previous to the 3rd Holyfield fight was being hurt by Herbie Hide. Bowe was clearly not the same Riddick Bowe of old.

Take a look at Holyfield teeing off on little Bobby Czyz and the only conclusion you will come to is, he is not a big puncher. Accumulation is Holy's game, he is not a big puncher.

Lets take a look at Benn record, he knocked De Witt out out, something Tommy Hearns could not do, and he stopped Iran Barkley. Another fighter Hearns could not put away. I take the point De Witt/Barkley were probably not the fighters they were, when they fought Hearns, but i think these two knockouts along with Benn's other stoppages throughout his career trumps Holy's all day long.

I don't see Jaime Garza on there I would def. rank him in the top 100.

i dont think this is a list of 100 hardest punchers of all time guys..

That's a pretty nice list.