There are many skills that go into the makeup of a great pugilist, but punching power is definitely the most crowd friendly quality. Speed, defense, charisma: all of them are important, but nothing brings the audience members to their feet quite like a thunderous knockout.

This book is a trivia book dedicated to some of the heaviest punchers of all time.

In each quiz contest, you will be given a list of statistics related to some great boxers from the past 8 decades. The first few in each chapter are fairly well-known, but you will be hard put to it to guess some of the more obscure pugilists in these pages. Here's the opening bell: let's get ready to rumble!