Have any fighters undergone a punching power test?

There was a show on Discovery once, Chris Byrd did it

 

i want GGG or Kovalev in Sports Science

 

ONLY DRAGO!


Anything he hits he destroys!

 

yeah and add Donaire in the group (lower weight represent!) :happy

 

Yeah, several years back they had something called SPARQ metrics, they used 'em on the reality show The Contender...season three or four.

Never really heard anything else about them, guessing it proved flawed or just didn't catch on for whatever reason. (lack of funding?)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_FT_kc0wyY

Perfect guy for the test. :deal

 

http://youtu.be/BJxCiJYDYRg

I know these machines aren't accurate but that's a **** poor attempt from Evander Holyfield, I usually get in the high 900's on these sort of machines.

 

As i recall an Article in the Ring Magazine Cira 69 / 70 detailed an experiment whereby Al Blue Lewis (if Memory Serv's) took a trip to a Detroit Car Plant and was allowed to Haul off on a wired up Crash Test Dummy....The Results given for his Best Shot were "Severe...But Survivable.." Unfortunately for Al his opponents in the ring were not that Static or Pacifist !

 

Haha. Idiotic "measurement". And also Holyfield did not try to punch. But it would be interesting if someone could find a standarized punch measure. So we can say "He punches xx hard, and he punch like a twat."