Is KO power more about technique or genetics?

It depends whether their gameplan can actually incorporate it or not.

Being able to hit the bag really hard, or a punching machine, means next to nothing if you'd never actually unleash that level of power through a punch against a live body - some guys have a style that relies on that, some rely on countering hard and others rely on not getting hit... And if you're putting avoiding getting hit near the top of the list of priorities, you're not going to be able to commit hard to punches as much, or as often.

 

I hear that. Technique, leverage...they all factor in. Wilder has toothpick legs, and hits like a truck. Tito had bigger legs than Wilder, he certainly could hit. Then there's guys like Jameel McCline. Dude was HUGE, but rarely a KO artist.

 

Both really genetics probably more so but if you combine natural power with good technique you get a monster. In MMA Ilia is an example of that by combining both he has become probably the best puncher in MMA history

 

Some of it has to be genetic

you can have 2 guys similar at every physical level, but 1 will punch far harder than the other

 

they have, and still do. 2 people born with the exact same genetics, if that were possible, and only one trained in the technique part, hes going to punch harder than his clone. its still not going to make either one a harder puncher than someone with better genetics who also practices technique.

 

They need to do an identical twin study on this. Raise one baby from birth to have subpar punching technique and the other with ideal form.

What are we even funding universities for if they don't conduct studies like that.

 

100% genetic. GGG and Foreman have hurt their opponents just from throwing slow arm jabs. Beterbiev rarely puts his whole body weight into his shots and he still has a ridiculously high KO%. Good technique is common at the championship level and most aren't knockout artists.

 

Genetics are a requirement but I am leaning towards technique/nurture.

 

Beterbiev doesn't need to put his whole bodyweight into it when everything he throws hurts. Safer to not commit like that if you don't need to.

 

Butterbean was somewhat of a KO artist, so I doubt it’s the technique. Foreman is considered one of the greatest in that department, and Ali described his style as the mummy.

No, it’s certainly pure force combined with speed. Genetics definitely play a role. My P4P favorite KO artists remain GGG and Kovalev to this day. Mike Tyson was also a beast.

If you gave Paul Malignaggi some quality steroids, maybe he could become a puncher, I don’t know.

 

In an interview in the 90s Jackson attributed his punching power to the way he was taught to punch.

 

Its all about genetics. Just like how fast you can run, or how high you can jump has a genetic ceiling. The same applies to punching power.

You ceiling is determined by genetics.

Training and good technique can only get you closer to your ceiling.

 

thats actually a great idea. they are already cloning animals. if you made 2 clones of a champion horse, as an example, you could train one for the track, and raise the other one free range. then see how they perform as a 2 yo. then take the untrained one, show him how to run the track for a year, and check both their performance as 3 yo.

 

Filipino boxing style is based on knock outs than boxing, sweet science “hit and not get hit”.Most wanna land big shots and land one to end or hurt the opp.But are boxed easily! Manny speed and force is his money shot.A lot Filo boxer can hit but can’t box fo shizzle.

 

Study the local boxing arcade machine and you know enough.

You see some surprisingly slim lads delivering bomb after bomb, while some muscular guys can’t land a decent punch on the thing. Surely technique plays a role, but to be a proper power puncher you must have some suitable genetics.