How do the pros generate so much power?

Years and years of fighting and practice and putting that training to work. Plus these guys are not your average dude they are gifted mofo built to fight.

 

Saline injections

 

Yeah...it's steroids mostly. Let's be real here.

 

1. PED's - they take whatever they can get away with, and drugs that mimic the known drugs.

2. They're in the pros, there's less emphasis on 'pointscoring to win' and more emphasis on 'outpoint by fighting', thus the fighting element skewers your output towards a higher number of power punches. You train to sit on your punches more and set up your game so as to get the most of these punches.

3. Technique, practice makes perfect. A lot of amateurs have very incomplete games and haven't got strong technique, there are even things we can criticise about Pacquiao and Cotto but they are at the very top where technique is concerned. It's in their memory to land a great shot - kind of like how Cristiano Ronaldo is able to score headers in pitch black. It's embedded in their memory to be able to exert the correct physics.

 

Good post. Beat me to the punch.

And I would also like to add that the difference between the guys someone like Cotto is sparring and dominating has a lot to do with the skill level. Since he is so much better than them he finds and creates many more opportunities than them to fully plant his feet and lay devastating shots.

 

Technique, and channeling whatever rage surely exists within them in order to have decided to make a living attempting to short-circuit the brains of their fellow man.

 

-Rage- I was just thinking of following up with this, very important.

 

Crucial. You can be a successful boxer of the point-scoring ilk without it, but if you want to pack a wallop that will leave guys rubbing their jaw weeks later and thinking "I don't ever want to fight him again!!" you need to have a deep well of intense, unresolved anger far beyond what a normal person carries around with them.

 

You either have it, or you don't!!!!

 

lol, very few people know and understand that. They're the same people that don't know when to quit messing with someone, next thing you know, they're being hospitalized for a fractured skull or some other..

 

One more observation. I seen a show a couple years ago that said there is technically no difference between the strength of an average chimpanzee and the average man. The difference comes from the fact that if you **** a chimp off there is no regulator there. They go from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye and do things that humans can only do if a life depended on it.

In the show it talked about a scrawny teenage boy lifted a muscle car off his unlce that fallen on him while he was working under it. It said what made this possible was the pure reaction without thought from the boy, it had to be done, so he did it. Humans are capable of extraordinary feats of strength but are trained to use our mind first. Superhuman is there for us to use but it has to be unlocked somehow for us to use it.

 

If we're talking about the best of the best, world champions and the like, in any sport, we're talking about some seriously freakish individuals.

 

Application of technique, timing (the worse punches are the ones you don't see coming), actual possessing the potential to have power in your punches.