Do Heavyweights punch harder today...

The ring magazine rated Schmeling as their number 55 and Lewis as their number 33 in their 100 greatest punchers list.

 

was jimmy wilde near the top of that list ??

 

Ah, that's what happens when I speed read. LOL

 

:goodwho do you think is the biggest hitting heavyweight champ ??lewis had a hell of a right hand for instance.

 

He was number 3.

 

i've seen a list from about 10 years ago,i think

 

I have a big explanation for you but I think that Lewis is a definate candidate. I want to wait until I use my brother's laptop to do an actual complete post. I can only type about 10 wpm on this stupid Playstation Portable.

 

ok.i'd have him near the top and his namesake ,joe, as the most accurate.

 

Very surprising. But the test did prove that padding made a lot of difference since the bare knuckle blow had substantially more force than the blows with glows. It was just that the padding in MMA gloves and boxing gloves respectively had insignificant difference.

 

Or fighter A lands his money punch really clean, where as fighter B doesnt land his best punch all night. Plus against fighter A the boxer may be more open

Plus its pretty hard to compare 'power' of someone that hits you in the face anyway

Its also worth noting Foreman lifted a shed load of weights on his comeback

 

Yeah. Time for me to have a piece of humble pie now. I damn Youtube to hell!

 

My humble pie is already eaten, but here you were obviously wrong according to the experiment. The force of a bare nuckle blow was more than 20% higher than the one with boxing gloves. So, padding does limit the power of the punch.

My bruised ego forced me to point this out. I feel badly let down by them MMA gloves.

 

You ever see the HBO prefight deal with him chaining a car to his back and pulling it up a hill? Guy was nuts.