Can someone describe to me what an arm punch is?

An arm punch is when you throw the punch from the shoulder without putting the rest of your body behind it, most importantly bending your knees and turning your hip. No, I wouldn't say Clottey is an arm puncher. Otkke was a classic arm puncher.

 

throwing punches with the power of your arm only, instead of generating it from the legs up

 

Boxers get most of their power from their legs, that's one of the reasons why balance is so important. a lot of boxers don't get their feet set and in turn don't generate much power, the power is a lot weaker because mostly the arms are used and not the legs and the rest of the body.

 

Vitali Klitschko is an incredibly strong "arm puncher".

 

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Calzaghes, tippy tap combinations are a good example, although he did get leverage behind his shots when gaps appeared.

 

Arm punch throwers: Gene Tunney, Joe Louis, George Foreman, Kelly Pavlik, Thomas Hearns, Paul Williams, Muhammad Ali.

Guys who put their body behind punches: Dempsey, Marciano, Frazier, Tyson, Cotto.

If you have short arms, you put your body behind the punch, and you do more damage.

 

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I assume you are kidding with the list of arm-punchers you put up.

 

Calzaghe's standrds tippy tappy combinations are just slaps.

Calzaghe's hayemakers do just about qualify as arm punches though, though it is arguable even his best power punches are still slaps.

 

An Arm punch is when you through a punch and dont rotate your hips and put all of your body weight into it.

 

well you got one right in ali and an arguable one in foreman, though his technique was sloppy i believe he used more of his body then it appeared. MAYBE williams when he's firing his 8 punch combinations forgets technique. Other than that, PAVLIK! HEARNS! TUNNEY! dude there is no way. Watch their fights in slow motion and you'll see their form, especially hearns, is fantastic

 

Yeah he's gotta be kiddin':huh

 

On this forum you never know. :-( Kelly Pavlik will punch you in the arms but is known to have some of the heaviest hands out there.

 

I'm pretty sure this list makes you a candidate for a lot of ignore lists:nut