What are some fights you can think of where more than a thousand punches were thrown in a single fight? Whether its one fighter throwing a lot of leather or both fighters slugging it out nonstop where their combined total amount of punches reached well over 1000. I recall both Daniel Zaragoza and Wayne McCullough each had over 1100+ punches thrown in their fight which would have total to around 2200+ punches, an insane workrate from both guys.
The first fighter I thought of on this subject matter was Zack Padilla, who would throw a blizzard of punches. I recalled his fight with Ray Olivera was said to have broken records. Looked it up on boxrec and it says they threw a combined 3,020 punches, which broke punchstat records. Amazing.
Jesus Soto Karras holds the record with 1800+ punches thrown in a fight his opponent threw 1500+ punches aswell. Chris Arreola & Adam Kownacki both threw over 1000 punches and for Heavyweights of that size that's pretty unreal.
Ibeabuchi vs Tua fought at an extremely fast pace. Especially for big heavyweights ,think they had over a thousand punches each. (Going off memory) Ali vs Frazier #1 Arguello vs Pryor #1 Mancini vs Kim Boza Edwards vs Chacon I think Leonard vs Duran #1 may have had a thousand punches each.
That means he missed with about 700 punches? An Chavez has never a defensive wizard or a runner so how did Taylor manage to miss so many shots? No wonder he lost
My impression without watching the fight again was that Ali was holding too much to have thrown 1000 punches in the 1st Frazier fight. Could be wrong though
What kind of analysis is this? Taylor threw punches at an incredible rate, and landed over 40% of his punches. That is an above average connect rate for someone fighting a world class opponent. For example, Floyd Mayweather only landed 26% of his punches against Cotto (despite throwing half as many as Taylor did against Chavez). And, prime Chavez did have good, subtle defense. He got hit more at times based on his aggressive come-forward style. (Knowing that his iron chin could withstand the incoming fire)
Kassim Ouma vs Verno Phillips 1 saw Ouma throwing 1331 punches while Phillips threw 759. Crazy workrate.