Have any fighters undergone a punching power test?

Think Lucia Rijker did one for ESPN

 

Holyfield just casually threw a right at it and return his arm quickly like a proper boxer should, so he is not push-pushing their body weight into it which is what most blokes from the street would have done.

 

I'm totally favorable to a standardized mechanical way of measurement of the punching power.

It would be deadly interesting to know the difference in power between each weight category.

It could also help to redefine weight classes, maybe?

Anyway, it's stupid it isn't already there.

Something kinda like the machine in the video, but better, professional and built with scientific criterias.

that way it would be easier to know who really punches harder than who.

 

Wladimir Klitschko

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Later that day he was knocked out by an airbag.

 

[YT]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUTGQ47Qwrs[/YT]

Joe Calzaghe did a slap power test

 

Mares figured out after that show that a punch on the nuts may really hurts!

 

Chris Byrd, did it a few years back in the early 2000's. Had a decent score.

 

Ha ha, nice follow on from the 'nature/nurture' punching debate.
I for one would love to see an accurate machine to assess 'punch power', as I said in that thread, I have some experience in the field of engineering and specifically, measuring weight/power/vibration in different scenarios.

The thing about energy/power transfer from a punch is just that to get one figure or statistical measure and simplify it to a score out of 10 for e.g. , is pretty much impossible and/or irrelevant to the skill/ability to deliver KO's in boxing.

A KO or single-shot finishing punch in boxing is dependent on well over 100 separate criteria which could all be measured individually to a degree but when they are combined in very small pockets of time, it's highly difficult to build anything to measure them and give someone a KO-ability rating. If it was easy, it'd have been done by now.

Perhaps in the future a very detailed and accurate real-time scan of someone's body and movement could be made, then an impact with another body could be measured/scanned and calculated. Until someone can actually build a machine which can calculate and model reality/physics perfectly, it'll be somewhat of a mystery I guess.

Put it this way, I reckon we'll be walking about with cyborgs and holograms by the time that measurement is available!

(Disclaimer: I give a funk about cod 'sensor-dummies' that I've seen many a time used to measure impact. They'll never give a KO-ability rating that's practicable IMO)

 

What 100 seperate criteria are these? The fact that you start talking about cyborgs and holograms tells me you don't have a clue what you're talking about.

I'd be interested to know what kind engineering experience you are referring to.

 

Yes tests have been done

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUTGQ47Qwrs

Look at these that include Holyfield, Froch and Calzaghe

 

Wladimir Bad 700 kg. Thats about 1600 pounds. Not bad

 

He is simply saying is that a fighter who takes his time and tees up to a punching machine and throws his best single punch is not reflective of their competitive KO ability.

Question, would you try to throw a punch against a good fighter in the ring the same way you would in a punching power contest?

 

Frank Bruno had his punch tested and produced 6329 Newtons of force which is about 664kg or 1463lbs.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3936571?dopt=Abstract