On average who punched harder Jimmy Young or GGG?

I love GGG I don't care what the facts are.

 

Hard question. I'm not sure of Young's fight weight but it had to have been a decent bit heavier than GGG. However, stylistically, Young didn't plant his feet or use a kinetic chain when punching. He was more concerned on just landing something and getting outta Dodge. Golovkin really digs his shots in. I'd hazard a guess at Golovkin being the harder hitter on average. However, if you lined them up in front of a punching machine and told them to take their best shot, that metric might change.

 

Young had enough on those clean right hands of his to make opponents fall for his feints. He could and did land some nice clean right hands in there and that was hardly an easy thing to do against those elite opponents.

 

Definitely Golovkin. Size is being consistently overrated on this forum.

 

Obviously Young, Chris Byrd probably punches harder than GGG, HWs get really disrespected at times.

 

Its possible. But Dempsey was a legit 185-192 lbs peak. I doubt GGG entered the ring at more than 170 lbs.

Plus, given that GGG's power was never tested vs anyone who weighed more than 200, its hard to say. Even if GGG had fought a journeyman cruiserweight or heavyweight, even someone with a record of 2 wins and 10 losses, we could have assessed his power.

 

In a heartbeat, as would any sane person.

 

Young was clearly not a puncher by style but on occasion he could hit a bit ... go to 2:10 ... I'd say Young

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Lol no, the Byrd is the word

 

P4P, heavyweights is actually pretty weak. Oh, they can knock you out for sure but P4P? They ain't knockin' nobody out.