He just posted on his Instagram on how he feels slow. He posted a vid of him shadowboxing w/ the caption. I found it ironic because he says he feels slow yet he looks pretty dangerously fast in the vid.
He looked slower to me then normal when I saw him shadowbox. But really, its day 3 Im sure his speed will look normal a month from now.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I was comparing their shadowing boxing from 2010 and 2015. He threw 20 punches in 1 second in 2010, and when I slowed down the shadow boxing vid from yesterday, he only threw 14 in 1.2 seconds. So, not slow, but slower.
No, I don't think so. That's good point, but still... he just finished fighting Algieri. It's not like he hasn't boxed in a while. Plus, he's been truly training for about 2 weeks now. He's been shadowboxing and doing mitts since before he came to the USA.
Perhaps he throws longer more extended punches now? I don't think punches/per second is a good way to judge speed though TBH. I think the speed of single punch is more important. Being half speed in boxing (going from 20 punches to just 12 in a second) would mean the END of your career lol. The differences between the slowest guys in the division and the fastest is only about 30% speed difference MAX.