Britain's biggest ever puncher?

I was at the gym last week and there was bloke glugging that stuff while running on the tread mill...

 

jimmy wilde
bold bendigo
jock mcavoy
randy turpin
nigel benn
naz
lennox lewis

 

naseem hamed has to be up there, for such a small guy he could punch.

 

Where is this evidence that todays fighters are faster, that you keep talkin about :huh


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and strength has nothing to do with with leverage if you knew anthing about boxing you'd be aware of this fact .

 

So what lightweight today is so much more advance than this bad little mother****er exactly

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Evidence is that humans are faster in every walk of life. We're not talking about the speed of punch combinations here, which technique and skill would play more of a part in, or boxing ability. Go check any record of human speed and you'll see that over the past hundred years people have got faster.

 

Naz
Benn
Haye
Lewis

P4P in that order for me...

 

Have you seen the tracks those guys used to run on and the trainers they used to wear (jk!).?

 

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Not in boxing if you got the evidence, then by all means show me it,

Technique has nothing to do with the speed of a punch :nut, have you ever learned boxing from a trainer or fighter :huh cause your starting to sound like someone who is making things up on the spot ,

Technique is for getting the most out of your power and punch placement,

 

Anyway, technique, durability and conditioning has clearly regressed for the main part, less depth in talent and less competitive match-ups and far less fights. Some very good fighters performing, but only a few that really stand out as having the ability/resume to compete with the best from years gone by.

The sport is at one his it's lowest ebbs for quality IMO. And in terms of British punchers, we don't have anyone nowadays who is knocking on the door to be 'Britains hardest puncher of all time', regardless of high-tech training methods.

 

Boxing just cannot be compared to sprinting or football, the effects of a hard punch and durability is judged by aesthetics and observation, not from how fast the athletes are recorded. We can easily discern between extremely fast fighters and old footage being sped up, and it is easy to see that fighters from the past are as fast and powerful as today's.

The 'well the old opponents wouldn't have modern conditioning so they would make the punches look more devastating' argument is preposterous and laughable, when we can judge for ourselves whether or not they could take as much punishment. With smaller gloves as well, and, of course if someone wants to pull the 'new gloves allow fighters to put more into their punches', I will gladly concede if they can find me a fighter more powerful than Joe Louis.

Look at Wlad Klitschko. Supposedly a massive puncher, how many devastating K.O's has he actually recorded? With all of the modern techniques and training he does, which make him look like an Ancient Greek statue or summat, and the picture of intimidation through sheer size and ripped physique, fighting pretty **** fighters, and he still isn't a massive puncher! Because otherwise he'd spark people clean out.

A big puncher no doubt, but moreso than Louis? Even with 70 years of evolution lol?

 

Bob Fitzsimmons, quite clearly. Arguably the greatest puncher of all time, period.

 

Hey guys, R.L. Stine is a greater horror novelist than H.P. Lovecraft. You know why? That's right! Modern training methods (i.e. steroids). Everyone knows they not only increase your physical capabilities, but apparently they also increase your mental acuity, experience in the field (somehow), technical skills, etc. Therefore a 90% mental sport like boxing is effected in the exact same way as a 90% physical sport like track and field!

I'm glad we're privileged enough to learn from the teachings of RichT, otherwise we'd just be a bunch of ignorant schmucks with elementary logic and understanding who hadn't done an iota of useful research on the topic. Thanks for the lesson, Rich.:good

 

Where the **** did you spring from? How dare you, 'Night of The Living Dummy' shits all over the Cthulhu Mythos :deal