Are punchers born or made?

DelaHoya said Gatti was the biggest puncher he ever faced and heaviest handed .I think to be a huge puncher as a top pro you would have to be heavy handed . You would naturally have your style to work on .Smaller hands more speed I think heavy handed more power .

 

Mainly made as pretty much everything is, to get to the top you need that something extra (which is where the born part comes from) but you can get very very good without god gifted talent.

 

Alot of top pros I read have huge hands .Victor Ortiz I read has hands the size of a heavyweght .Always remember a Louis Schmeling doc and they say a great puncher like Louis is born .

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Punchers are born.

Hearns was born with the ability to be a puncher, whether it was utilized when he was an amateur is another question. It's like asking whether sprinters are born or made, absolutely born.

However, if you took an untrained Usain bolt and put him in against a sprinter who has half the talent but is trained, Bolt could lose. So I feel like it's something that you tap into but definitely requires being taught proper technique to maximise the potential.

 

Punchers are born. You can train to increase your power but over all they are born. One of my brothers who never boxed is heavy handed like a mother****er and hits like a bull. Even his jabs feel like an over hand right.

 

Punchers are naturally born, let's face it. Otherwise Floyd Jr would have legitimate one punch KO power by now.

 

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Could we all punch relatively hard with the right training? No. Just average.

Same with running. Could we all run relatively fast with the right training? Again: no. Just average.

Could we all be relatively intelligent with the right schooling? No. Just average.

The average human would run faster, hit harder and be more intelligent with the right training than without them, and possibly perform better than a talented human who doesn't train at all, but if everyone trained well, the average human would still perform at an average level, even if that average would be higher from an absolute point of view.

Fast twich fibres follow a regular bell-shaped distribution. Same as the genetic qualities required to punch hard. You can improve on what you are born with through training. Say you could improve by 100% with the perfect training regime. Still, if it's 100% of very little, someone with a lot who doesn't train at all would still punch harder.

Off the top of my head, punchers are mostly born.

 

Both.

 

It goes both ways actually. The people you guys may refer to as "hard punchers" are just generally heavy handed. If you look at this in terms of physics, in order to generate power, you need mass and it needs to travel at a certain velocity. The more mass, the more power it will have, assuming the velocity it is traveling in is adequate. However, there are other people, such as the likes of Bruce Lee, who proved, punching can be taught and its not necessarily something you have to be born with. His method of punching strong was through different techniques, which primarily focused on form and technique eg, paper technique.

 

Wholly ****, OnepunchKO Does know **** about boxing.

The correct answer is BORN

 

There are men who are just natural punchers.....not with regards to technique and actual skill...but "HEAVY HANDED". Heavy handed fighters have a very raw power that you can't teach or duplicate.

However....people can always improve on power when they have the right elements in place...like technique, skill, timing and explosiveness. So punchers can be made.

It's when you have HEAVY HANDED fighters with pro level technique that creates legends like Ezzard Charles who was infamous for his bone crushing punching power. Big George Forman was known for just how heavy his hands were too....but he wasn't very polished.....but he could knock an opponent out with a grazing shot or even a stiff jab.

 

Some people have naturally heavy hands,simple as that.they can throw a arm punch and knock you out.Some can have great speed and technique and cant bust a grape

 

Born and a good example is the guy fighting tonight in Matthysse