Boxers whose power was exaggerated

Clenelo

61.9% KO rate and people are convinced he’s a power puncher

 

... he is a power puncher. His power clearly improved after he moved up to middleweight as he adjusted his style. How many Canelo opponents would say that he doesn´t have power at all?

 

Ricardo Mayorga. He was knocking out almost everybody prior to his Last big KO win against Forrest in their first fight.

 

61.9% KO rate

40% KO rate in his last 20 wins.

40 percent…LOL! Yet, you think he’s a power puncher…

Facts are facts, buddy. Cope.

 

Hes a pressure fighter who throws a low volume of punches, yet somehow no one walks through his punches. Also, he stopped Plat when Benavidez couldn´t.

And in these recent years he has scored quite a few knockdowns, despite going the distance so very often. He clearly has power.

 

Having power and being a power puncher who stops opponents are completely different things. You’re trying to say he’s both.

 

No, I am solely focused on power. I think he is a genuine power puncher, and that he hits really hard. Never tried to make the argument that his someone who stops his opponents all the time.

IMO its clear that he changed his technique a lot after moving to 160, as he was now putting a lot of weight on each punch, and also trying to punch through the opponents. Back at 154 he threw heavy handed combinations, but he was more focused on speed than turning his hips into punches and landing with the knuckles.

For a moment at 168 he started stopping more guys than usual at 168, but it was just a coincidence. In the end he was still the same guy who went the distance with Callum Smith.

Arguing that he has a 40% KO ratio makes it seem like he has pillows for hands, ala Paulie Malignaggi, which is the furthest from the truth. Hes gone the distance in his last 8 fights, but actually has knocked down 4 of them.

 

40% KO rate in his last 20 wins bro

The math don’t lie

 

Wilder. Pretending he was one of he biggest punchers ever for knocking out cans was laughable. His power was not even elite imo. You could see and hear it was nothing compared to a Wlad right hand for example. Wilder was too light in the ass to compare to the biggest HW punchers ever.

 

About Canelo, he clearly became a dangerous puncher after the PEDs and move to MW+. At least for natural 160-168 fighters.
Before that he obviously wasn't a huge puncher. But afterwards, here's some evidence:

Golovkin only boxed people he was worried about taking big shots from and he was cautious of Canelo even when Abel told him to brawl basically. He never tried to 'streetfight' Canelo.
Saunders has never been hurt like that and that punch was a ridiculous PED bomb.
Callum Smith was absurdly cautious in that fight and he'd been in with Groves and was huge.
Kovalev was also very cautious.
Plant got stopped, he's pretty tough and a natural 168'r.

It's possible Canelo takes different PEDs and/or things have worn off a bit or maybe he's slowed and just can't land the big ones as easily, but there was a period where he was a dangerous puncher.

 

Alexander Dimitrenko

 

"after the PEDs" suggests anti-doping is watertight and that he wasn't using beforehand, which is laughably naive.

 

Good find