Does speed equate power?

A fighter can have both speed and power but having one thing does not equate to the other.

 

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Calzaghe = Full Speed + No Power

Forearm = No Speed + Full Power

you can certainly have one without the other

 

Calzaghe was a puncher in his younger days before his hands become so brittle. He admitted later on in his career that he protects his hands in fights and doesn't punch with full force unless he feels he really needs to(eg to earn a fighter, respect, like when he stepped it up against Kessler).

 

A fighter that has one punch ko power (that falls into my category of great power) does not have great speed because they have to sit longer on the punches; however, you can have decent power and great speed or vice versa and yield great results. For example, Shane Mosley (Great speed decent power) Mike Tyson (Great Power decent speed)

 

What about Hearns?

 

Its simple mechanics really, you need speed and strength to ko someone. Sometimes punchers look slow when unloading because they need more time to transfer their body weight into a shot. I'd say david haye is an example of a p4p hitter currently has both speed and power. The strength element comes in as you need this to 'follow through' with punches to really rock an object.

 

I would say Mosley has better than decent power, in his at LW he had Great Speed and Power, and Tyson at his peak was very fast.

 

Tyson said it was speed and accuracy that created power. He got that from Cus D'amato.

Obviously it'd be more important to have BOTH but I think if you're fast enough and you have decent power, you can pretty much create your own KOs.

 

Malignaggi? fast and featherfisted

 

Speed kills period. Anybody who has ever been in a ring knows it. If you get hit with a punch you don't see, it feels 10X more powerful than it actually is. Ask some of Mayweather's opponents.