Can a extremely strong powerlifter be a hard Puncher if he learned proper technique ?

A man with the Hand of God can do more than just lift a can of beer

 

Beterbiev and Golovkin would make great powerlifters. Kovalev and Wilder? Not so much.

 

Tbf you have picked out probably the greatest and most naturally gifted power puncher boxing has seen.
You would never be able to match the greatest powerlifter of all time no matter how hard you trained as well.
Both sports require a natural genetic predisposition in order to reach the very top.
A powerlifter could defo increase his punching ability but wether they could increase it to elite level boxing is unlikely. I would imagine there are some exceptions but powerlifters tend to have great strength but lack that explosive speed needed for knockout power.

 

Strangely enough, while they are fast twitch dominant by far, they did not have pure IIx. However, they did have a low percentage of IIa/IIx hybrids.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30917128/

In this case study of a single champion sprinter, they found 24% IIx in the legs
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25749440/?i=9&from=Iix athlete

Boxing to me is a very strange sport in terms of conditioning. You need fast twitch muscle to explode punches, but you also need to recover fast to keep exploding those punches, while at the same time being on your bike for multiple rounds. It's like long distance short interval sprinting. I'd be very interested in learning the muscle fiber composition of athletic boxers.

 

Powerlifter? yes. But assuming you actually meant bodybuilder, no.

 

Yeah. Actually most hardest punchers had pretty slow hand speed like George Foreman, GGG, Kovalev, Beterbiev. Julian Jackson also looked like he is in slow motion, lol.

 

Okay, just read through the thread. Most people here don't understand what a powerlifter is.

 

No

 

You need loose tendons for more snap on your punch.

 

Baseball pitchers and javelin throwers hardest punchers p4p

 

No matter how hard you'll train in powerliftig, you will never ever come even remotedly close to lifting 1102 lbs like Eddie Hall did or doing 249 lbs in biceps strict curl like Denis Tsyplenkov did or even 225 lbs like C.T. Fletcher did. Those numbers are comparable to Tyson's punching power, not 600 lbs in deadlift.

600 lbs in deadlift is far from something special, it would more likely be comparable to Bryant Jennings punching power in boxing, but definitely not to Tyson's one.

 

Add carl froch slow forced punches but heavy handed as hell

 

Dafuq 1100lbs????

 

You could just as easily say that anyone could be a boxer. Anyone could technically train at boxing and be a club level journeyman. I’m just saying that being a top powerlifter requires having the right genetics, just like boxing or any other sport. No matter how much the average guy trains at bench press, they aren’t going to press as much as Kirill Sarychev...just like you aren’t going to punch as hard as Tyson.

 

two different things. Punching is punching....lifting is lifting. If you want to be a good puncher...do what the good punchers do. Study the histories...the training they used. Yes, many were born...can't change that. I am talking about the training.....how many attributed their punching power to power lifting...or lifting of any kind? If any....they are a very small minority. My own experience sparring with overly muscled types....they gas quickly. Then....turn into something resembling putty. Huge muscles need a lot more oxygen. Recently.....a fat blob....that could fight......beat the **** out of a muscle head by the name of Joshua.