THESE ARE THE ROUGH ESTIMATE OF PUNCHES LANDED BY HW'S OF THE 1990S. Holy landed 242 Bowe Landed 357 Tyson 246 Ruddock 124 Ibeabuchi 332 Tua 282 HW's punches landed of the past 10 years. Wilder 71 Fury84 Joshua 90 Povetkin 47 Joshua 139 Parker 101 Fury 86 Klitschko 52 Haye was credited for landing 72 against Klitschko. 98 against Valuev Give or take a dozen that compubox or punchstats may have missed/added, there seams to be a steady decline in punches thrown and landed by today's HW's. Why? Is it based on better defense? Or no DOGS in today's ring? I don't think Fury can clinch or dance or jab his way from a crazed slugger like Marciano, damn his height, he was constantly throwing, same with a small Tua to Tyson. The lateral movement of Holyfield, while throwing is rarely seen today. Seams like AJ, Fury, Wladimir likes to be set to throw. Wilder does want to throw, but wow, his accuracy or lack thereof reminds me of the Green Bay Packers QuarterBack Gunslinger Brett Favre. When he scored a TD, they were bombs, but he also threw more Interceptions than a muthatrucker. Meaning his accuracy was for crap. Neither Fury nor Wilder impress me as being able to deal with virtually any HW from the past era. While I think Wladimir could've clinched his way to a decision against some past greats.....The Wilder Fury fight had me puzzled. They both were horrible in the landing category. yes Fury was cagey, but he had a windmill-one-trick- pony in front of him. Ali threw while moving. I can only but flip the script and question, if Fury is such a better boxer than Wilder, then why couldn't he land 100 punches against him? How could he have been hit just as many times? Their difference was a dozen punches?
Less to do with size and more to do with styles. Two of those modern stats include a defensive fighter in Fury, one only lasted a few rounds, and another included a fighter in Parker who becomes defensive when he's at risk of being hit. Why didn't you add Chisora/Whyte? Or any of Millers fights? Looks very cherry picked to me.
Yep. And Fury matches his style to suit his opponent. He's been very high volume in other fights. Didn't make sense against Wlad or Wilder though. And Vitali and Lewis, both giant SHWs, set varius compu box punch stat records over their tenure(vs Johnson and Tua, respectively, I believe). So very selective fights chosen.
You can't make accurate analysis of two eras when you pick high action fights from one and lackluster fights from the other. Like Reg said, Chisra vs White was plenty busy. They had boring **** fights back in the day too. People just don't watch or talk about them anymore. I don't know why you are using punch stats from random fights, some of which ended several rounds early by knockout. You got the stats from compubox. Why didn't you simply ask compubox what the average punch rate is for heavyweights per round. They have it written down somewhere along with all the other divisional averages.
This critique is right on target. You cannot even know if your assumption is correct if you start with a conclusion, instead of testing a premise, & use very biased innput to support a supposition. But also, why on earth use punch stats from guys in the past who had 2, or even 3 matches, & in the later era they are all one-offs? Without even listing the number of matches between opponents? This is at least unintentionally very deceptive.
These are classic barnburners compared to modern dull letdowns. You could also have done it the other way round, chosing a couple of old time clinchfests and compare those to modern day brawls. Another issue is better drugtesting nowadays. Punchoutput clearly reduces if you can't take epo or comparable substances.
with increasing body size, the human heart is subjected to bigger demands. now u might claim that their hearts are bigger, but a bigger heart has a reduced stroke load so its less efficient, not more. Size hinders them... so their hearts havent evolved to be bigger, not nearly. Now if the heart is by chance oversized, they have a disadvantage, since they pumping a reduced load of blood... and likely they wont even be in a cardio sport. so they gas faster, so need to punch less.
