How would you rate Evander Holyfield's power?

[Memorial Stadium Piru]

Do you consider Holyfield's power underrated or not?

Holyfield knocked Bowe down and knocked Buster Douglas out and Mike Tyson could not knock Douglas out (Excuses aside that is a fact.) Holyfield scored a nice KO of Adilson Rodrigues too, he took Dwight Qawi out to, which was impressive to me, he also had Michael Moorer on and off the canvas like a beach ball in the rematch.

However when he was a CW he pounded on Carlos De Leon with his best punches and he could not seen to make a dent, he did in the end but De Leon took some hellacious shots, Evander hit Bobby Czyz (middleweight) with the kitchen sink and seemingly never hurt him until he complained of the eye injury, Evander hit Mike Tyson bang on the chin with his trade mark step back counter over the top with right hand, and by rights if Holy was any kinda puncher, that punch should of taken Tyson out IMO because he caught him clean on the chin, now i know Mike has a decent chin himself but still...

What about Bert Cooper? Bowe put his lights out in 3 and we know how much trouble Holy had getting rid of Bert.

Alex Stewart gave Evander a tough fight and Tyson made mince meat of Stewart.

From a poster on another forum that sparred with him:

Evander Holyfield was a machine gun. He put me on my butt first round we ever sparred with a 7 or 8 punch volley. He just punched well; He'd move around and when he let them go, they hit, hard and fast and in large numbers. He was the weakest of the group since Bowe, but probably the most dangerous. He never found me difficult to find, and turned me into a bobble head more than once.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Never been able to use this shameful gif

 

[Stick Up Kid]

He's known for 4 things

-Tyson biting his ears
-Knocking out Tyson
-having 20 kids
-gettin shouted out on arguably the greatest song in hip hop history (Nothin But a G Thang)

 

[mr x]

The Ring brehs are very knowledgeable...should ask there.

 

[Memorial Stadium Piru]

Never been able to use this shameful gif

I've said for forever and a day now that Real Deal should've retired after the Lennox Lewis fights

His record since 2000 is 8-6-1 and one NC

 

[Kinguno]

I think more than Solid he was a four time world heavyweight champion he also moved up in weight

 

[MJ Truth]

His WILLpower was unmatched, I'll say that much.

 

[Remote]

Not the greatest power.

Tyson, Lewis and Ruddock were all in his era and all had more power.

 

[Omar Little]

Evanders Chin was his bread and butter. Dude could take more shots than a drunken white sorority girl.

 

[King P]

I would give his power a 7/10.

Not a 1 punch guy. But he was very strong, very accurate, had great technique, and knew how to put his punches together. He could hurt you with combos.

Plus it also helped that he could wear you down with his headbutts

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Steroids

 

[Bboystyle]

Not as powerful as his head butts

 

[Surreal]

Blown up Cruiser that could throw combos better than most Heavyweights

 

[feelosofer]

Actually as someone who has seen Holy field fight for the past 30 years. Power is not a major part of his game. Don't get me wrong his punches are powerful but more importantly Holyfield is really an out fighter as opposed to being a straight up Brawler. This is why fighters like Tyson have had trouble against hin because his strengths accentuate their weaknesses. He has won as many matches as he has because of his technical boxing acumen and also due to the fact that being a little smaller than the average heavyweight has worked in his favor because he made up for the lack of raw power in working on both his speed and stamina. Don't get me wrong getting his earning drained through poor investments and too many children has made.him box 10 years longer than he should have but outside of maybe Ali he's one of the most technically profiecient heavyweights of all time.

 

[TheNig]

Real Deal's power was at Cruiser.