Hardest Puncher at every weight class in UFC History?

You... do know that's not Melvin right?

You do know that is Melvin, right?
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89kg Manhoef ko'd 130kg Hunto with one shot to the dome. K1 Dynamite 2008 Japan.
I watched it live on TV here in Japan. He (Hunt) was supposed to fight Le Banner, but he withdrew and in stepped Manhoef, the rest is history.
 
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Off the top of my head with no stats to back anything
Flw - lineker
Bw - bowles
Fw -Mcgregor
Lw- doostin
WW- Hendricks, Daley
MW- Alex
Lhw- rumble
Hw- hunt
 
HW: Ngannou
LHW: Rumble
MW: Manhoef
WW: Woodley
LW: Justin
FW: Conor
BW: Cody
FLW: Fig

This is my list. The only guy I would have different is Chandler > Justin. In terms of one punch power and explosiveness.

Like the kind of one punch explosive power Chandler, Woodley, Melvin and Rumble generate is nuts. They’re just like fast twitch monsters.

Francis isn’t really designed to deliver like these guys he just generates loads of freakish power just throwing wild shit. An argument in their for Hunt also.

Other guys like Conor for example accuracy and technique that’s solid. He doesn’t have that same “if he hits you on the shoulder he knocks you off balance” like the four I listed above but he’s a snipper.
 
Noticed all the members with older join dates lean heavily towards Carwin, while all the zoomer trash with 2020 join dates or later go with the flavor of the month.

Sounds about right.
Well I was here long before you and I think Ngannou’s 1 punch power dwarfs Carwin’s.

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I'm never not ceased to be amazed by how often Sherdog confuses pressure/volume punchers with actual power punchers.

KOing somebody after you hit them 5+ times in a row isn't a power puncher. You're KOing the guy because you eventually hit him with the shot he simply didn't see coming or could no longer continue to absorb. The finishes are mostly based off the previous work and the last strike is just the tipping point. It's like a video game where the opponent has a health bar you simply chipped long enough away at.

That's wildly different than hitting guys with 1 shot and the lights are shut off. That's power.

Obviously everybody can occasionally do this. Anybody can 1 shot somebody if you hit them perfectly. But if the majority of your KOs are coming off long combos or repeated strikes, you're not a power puncher. You may hit hard yes, but you're not a power puncher. Nor should you try fighting like one where you're looking to land that 1 big shot as your opponent will likely just be able to absorb your strikes without going down. You need to stay in their face to put them down.

Exactly why guys like Justin, Dustin, Robbie Lawler, Pav etc aren’t on my list. The fast twitch guys that take your soul on one shot.

Rumble is the king imo. The quality of guys he one shot killed over the span of his 13 LHW fights or so is legendary. Not sure how ANYONE would consider a Chuck or Rampage above him. Rumble was sending guys to the shadow realm that would or have beat Chuck and Rampage. Nothing they ever done could top the Glover KO. He’s P4P the KO king no doubt. He KO’ed every opponent he had @LHW brutally the only guy to survive was Phil Davis. It’s an impressive list of guys he killed, not a bunch of cans or one dimensional grapplers circa 2000-2006.
 
155 - Sam Stout. Dude had Hands of Stone.

170 - Mike Perry. He was made of Platinum FFS.
 
You... do know that's not Melvin right?
Huh?

First one is vs Hunt, second one is vs Ruslan Karaev in K1. The Ruslan fight especially shows how crisp he was in addition to his freakish power.
 
HW Ngannou
LHW Pereira
MW Pereira
WW Woodley
LW McGregor
FW McGregor
BW O'malley
 
Hw-mw:Conor
Ww-Fw:McGregor
Bw:Sean OMalley
FLW:Kape
 
Heavyweight will be a toss-up between Carwin and Hunt. Ngannou has the same explosiveness as Wilder. He throws everything he's got into his strikes that you'd be more surprised if he didn't knock them out.

Hunt and Carwin remind me of George Foreman. They throw punches that seemingly don't have a lot of windup to them but they just fold opponents when it lands.

Edit: Compare how short Hunt's uppercut is to Nganno's


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Hw- Francis
Lhw- rumble
Mw- drew mcfedries
Ww- hector lombard
Lw- gaethje
Fw- Conor
Bw-garbrant
Flw- Dodson

WFW- Cyborg
WBW- Nunes
WFLW- ?
WSW- Andrade
 
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