The great arm puncher's that could knock opponents out

Foreman was unreal with his punching technique.
He just seemed to walk in not get his feet set, his arms swung like pendulums which just unloaded on his opponent.

 

No arm puncher could ever hit like Foreman.

Core, weight shift, shoulder snap.

 

Yeah, you can really see Foreman whirling his back/shoulder girdle behind the punches. Definitely not arm punches.

 

Bruno didn't Seem to load up on a lot of his shots but would often Ko his opponents with punches that Didn't look much.

 

Artur "The Marciano Crusher" Beterbiev

 

You can really see it in this clip vs Moorer, especially the replays in slow motion. It doesn't even look hard, just right on the button with using all of the above: Core, weight shift, shoulder snap.

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Vitali seemed to be a arm puncher a lot of the time. It looked as if he was hardly putting anything in to the jab and yet the opponents would probably tell u different. In fact I think both brother s had this similarly. Almost as if they were in first gear for long periods of the fight

 

Lance Whitaker

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froch vitali and Willard, could all throw other punches but arm punchers at times.

 

He's not an arm puncher in the strictest, most narrow and literal sense of the term, but he seemed to rely on generating force from his lower body and snapping his shoulders far less than most of the truly elite punchers in the history of the sport.

 

Agree with the first part.
He generates his power using his core, transfers it subtly with the weight shift, narrows it with the shoulder snap, and connects with his freakish forearms and fist.

He definitely had a scary shoulder snap. Without it, his arms would be moving like he was lifting weights, with no pop on the end of the fist.

The shoulder snap is what gives those 'slow' lumbering punches that power at he end that shakes his opponents bodies.

 

Certainly not the kind of exaggerated snap that you've often called attention to in the past. That shoulder snap seems to be conspicuously missing from some of his biggest punches, imo. I'm also not sure how much core-generated power can be transfered with the subtle weight shift that you see in some of those punches. A lot of those seem like they're primarily arm punches with a bit of added lower-body leverage. I'd call them "arm punches plus" maybe.

 

foreman certainly threw arm punches once he was tired, the problem was he lost his technique, if he didn't arm punch you got loaded up telegraphed punches and at that point arm punches are the better option.