Wake Me When It's Over: Twelve Champions with the Lowest Knockout Percentages

The saying is that a puncher is born and not made. Obviously, you can change your punching technique and sit on your punches more to hit harder.

Some fighters are just great boxers so they don’t need to bang. Other fighters just don’t have the punching power and never will.

On this list we will find boxers who fall into one of those two categories. There will be one fighter on this list who falls into the exciting category and that’s about it.

When you see these fighters on television, you just let out a groan and turn the channel. These knockout percentages include losses as well.

So let's get to the 10 most feather-fisted champions.

No. 12: Timothy Bradley

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The WBO light welterweight champion is 26-0 with one no contest. He has 11 knockouts for a 40.74 KO percentage.

Bradley finds himself on this list because there are a couple ties in the Top 10. He is an exciting fighter and someone who is enjoyable to watch.

He is starting to sit on his punches more and in his last few fights he has looked like a harder puncher. Only fighter on the list that I personally enjoy watching.

No. 11: Felix Sturm

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The WBA super middleweight champion is 34-2-1. He has 14 knockouts for a 37.84 KO percentage.

Sturm falls into the excellent boxer category. He is a very good technical boxer and he sticks to his guns.

He isn’t a brawler and has an OK punch, but he isn’t going to win any full-fledged brawls. He has been the WBA champion since 2007 and only has two knockout wins in that time.

Not a boring fighter to watch, but not a fighter people look for on their television.

No. 9 (tie): Mzonke Fana

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The IBF super featherweight champion is 30-4. He has 12 knockouts for a 35.29 KO percentage.

Fana is a newly-crowned champion as he won the title in his last fight against Cassius Baloyi. This is his second run as the IBF champion.

He has actually been on a knockout binge as of late. In his last five fights he is 4-1 with three of those wins coming by knockout.

If he keeps up that pace he will be off this list very soon.

No. 9 (tie): Steve Molitor

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The IBF super bantamweight champion is 33-1 with 12 knockouts for a 35.29 KO percentage.

Molitor has identical numbers to Fana and even holds the IBF title in his division.

Molitor is a two-time champion in the super bantamweight division and is currently the IBF champion. He is a slick southpaw boxer.

He relies on his brains more than his brawn and out-slicks opponents. He was a fun boxer to watch, but his 2008 loss to Celestino Caballero changed that.

He is still slick, but seems hesitant to pull the trigger now. He won't be racking up any knockouts soon.

No. 8: Oleydong Sithsamerchai

The WBC minimumweight champion is 34-0-1. He has 12 knockouts for a 34.29 KO percentage.

We go from the largest man on the list to the smallest man on the list. Sithsamerchai is the only fighter from the minimumweight class on this list and that surprised me a little bit.

He hasn’t scored a knockout since he had back-to-back ones in 2008. He is currently riding a six-fight points streak.

In his last fight he was held to a draw. He has held the WBC title since 2007.

No. 6 (tie): Sebastian Zbik

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The current interim WBC middleweight champion has 10 knockouts in 30 bouts (30-0) for a 33.33 KO percentage.

It must be something in the water in Germany. Zbik is the second German middleweight champion to fall on this list.

Zbik is the current interim WBC champion and hasn’t knocked anyone out in his last five fights. His last knockout came in 2009.

He has averaged one knockout a year since 2007. In that time he is 14-0 with the three knockouts.

No. 6 (tie): Omar Nino Romero

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Romero, the WBC light flyweight champion, is 30-3-2 with 12 knockouts for a 33.33 KO percentage.

Romero is currently in his second tour of duty as the WBC champion. He scored a knockout in his last fight when he made Ronald Barrera retire after six rounds.

That is his only knockout victory since 2005. He is 9-1-1 with one no contest since 2005. In those nine wins he has only one knockout.

Romero is 34 and won't be racking up many knockouts late in his career.

No. 5: Anselmo Moreno

Moreno is the WBA bantamweight champion. He record of 30-1-1 includes 10 knockouts for a 31.25 KO percentage.

Moreno is the longstanding WBA champion at bantamweight. He has been racking up points wins ever since winning the title.

He is 9-0 with one knockout win since winning the title. The only knockout win in that time was a TKO-11 last year.

He is a pure boxer who doesn’t have the need to go in the trenches and trade power shots.

No. 4: Luis Alberto Lazarte

The IBF light flyweight champion is 48-9-1 with 18 knockouts for a KO percentage of 30.51.

Lazarte is a new champion after upsetting Carlos Tamara earlier this year for the IBF title. He has very little punching power and has never knocked out a top-flight opponent.

He has fought mostly journeymen and that’s how he got his 18 knockouts. He has one knockout since 2007.

He defended his title once and may not be holding onto it very long.

No. 3: Vitali Tajbert

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Tajbert, the WBC super featherweight champion, is 20-1 with six knockouts for a 28.57 KO percentage.

We welcome our first fighter to have single-digit knockouts and the first to have a knockout percentage under 30 percent.

He is only the second, but not the last fighter, from the super featherweight division. With six knockouts he actually has the least amount of any fighter on the list.

He hasn’t scored a knockout victory since winning fight against Youssouf Djibab (15-12-2) in 2007. He scored three of his knockouts in his first four fights.

He is 6-1 in his last seven fights and has won all of them on points.

No. 2: Nobuhrio Ishida

Interim WBA light middleweight champion Ishida is 22-5-2 with only seven knockouts for a 24.14 KO percentage.

Two of his knockouts have come against fighters without a win and he has only knocked out one fighter with a winning record.

He scored his last knockout in 2008.

Somehow he has knocked out Tatsuki Kawasaki two times in his professional career. Kawasaki may have the worst chin in all of boxing.

No. 1: Ricky Burns

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WBO super featherweight champion Ricky Burns has only seven knockouts in 31 fights (29-2) for a 22.58 KO percentage.

Burns is the winner, or loser, depending on how you look at it. He became the WBO super featherweight champion by shocking previously undefeated Roman Martinez just 11 days ago.

He is 5-0 with two KO in his last five, which is a knockout binge for him. He scored the knockouts in back-to-back fights in 2008 and 2009.

He is currently riding a three-fight points win streak. He has only knocked out two respectable fighters in his seven.

Burns may not hold onto the title long and having such little power won’t help him.