Boxers never cease to amaze me with their idiotic training methods

Those lifts certainly won't much help a boxer who can't punch good to start with.
In moderation they can add something to a boxer who can already punch.

People will call me a dinosaur for saying it but ..... Hitting the heavy bag regularly with serious intent is still the best exercise to develop and maintain punching power.

It's the SPECIFICITY principle. You get better at punching by punching things.

 

So you’re saying if Sugar Ray Robinson had lifted weights, he could have been really good?

 

Any thread with "Miller" and "training method" can't really be taken seriously.

 

You're perhaps giving Miller too much credit.
There's no evidence he ever had the punch to do much with a Mariusz Wach.
He felt he had no pop because he's a big slow limited skilled lump and in with an immense and durable opponent of similar level.

Imagining Miller's training habits I reckon dropping weight lifting would be the least of his worries.

He was right about one thing: He needs to be lighter.
He needs to be 245 pounds or less and develop some skills.

He looks like an old school nightclub bouncer not a serious heavyweight boxer.

 

Well he can't swim for fear of being harpooned.

 

Tyson Fury v Jarrell Miller
Cardiff Stadium
"The Heavyweight Championship of Whales"

 

The heaviestweight championship of the world.

 

Weights for mass is no good at all for punching power ie speed, someone metioned bench presses etc, OK but you need to build the legs, more so the calves for speed etc. Forearms ,often overlooked & in particular the obliques, this will give you power & speed .
Then just as important you need to practice reflex for speed. Anyone who has trained Karate will know what I mean, in particular, kyokushinkai, we used to stand cigarettes on the end of tinfoil paper & snatch it away & leave the cigarette standing then 2 & so on, do this with regular training & you have power ,speed & mobility & yes deep heavy squat will give you endurance.

 

The bench press and overhead press have as much resemblance to punching as cheesecake.

 

Not really. Punching power is about technique, speed, co-ordination and timing. All of these are much, much more important than lifting weights for increasing punching power.

 

No not at all. Bench Pressing and Overhead pressing are nothing like punching. First off the force from a bench press and overhead press is vertical. Punching is horizontal. Next, power is generated from the shoulder drive and hips. Bp and ohp don't incorporate any of this. Third, bp and ohp are pushing movements. Punching is snapping movement. You won't knock anyone out ever with a push punch.

 

It isn't a similar motion at all - unless you're throwing mainly arm punches. Which, I suspect, is the case.