Is punching power proof of physical strength

i personally know or have known guys that have gotten into fights that are physically very weak but have put people on their asses.... one punch power has to do with other things aside from physical strength

 

Yup I've seen skinny guys KO Bigger muscular guys plenty of times

 

Def not

Look at Firat Arslan, he is strong like a mule, punches like a girl

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Not quite that simple though, as you have inferred that energy and power are the same thing, which is incorrect. Power is the rate at which energy is transferred.

Physics does exist in boxing, just not your physics. :thumbsup

 

I can ASSURE you, from my own personal experience anyway, that punching power and physical strength are two very different things... i have boxed many guys who had good sharp power in ther punches but when it came to physically moving someone around the ring they were at a disadvantage. There are plenty of big strong looking guys, big muscles and all, who punch very weakly compared to others in their same weight class.

 

Not really. Carlos Baldomir is strong in there, he couldn't knock out my 92 year old Grandmother.

And vice-versa, Jimmy Wilde was built like a stick insect and knock lumps out of granite.

We're talking leverage, speed, technique and timing here. It's not related.

 

both your poll selections are innacurate.

the answer to the question is no, even though punching power and physical strength are not different things altogether.

 

From a physics point of view punching power is an amount of kinetic energy one has to absorb.

Kinetic energy is defined by:

Ekin = 0.5 * m * v^2

m is mass
v is velocity at impact

Lets talk about m first. A bigger foe has more mass, so he will generally punch harder. Of course he can choose how much weight he can put into a punch ("how much of his body is behind that punch"), but generally he will be able to punch harder than a small guy.

Generally a guy who can speed up that mass more will punch harder. You need high acceleration to reach high speeds. Acceleration is proportional to force. A strong guy can generate more force than a weak guy, so he will generally punch harder. It's not that easy here though. A guy with long arms should punch harder as well, because he has a longer way to accelarate his "mass". The same with straight punches - they will be weaker than the "hayemakers", because of the short acceleration way.

Personally I think a boxer can always choose the amount of weight he puts into a punch, so it's hard to say who punches harder... From the theoretical point of view a Wlad Klitschko or Lennox Lewis should be one of the hardest punchers in heavyweight history. They are weighting in excess of 240 lbs, have both long arms (Lennox' are longer) and are both very strong and athletic. In the real world Lennox right was harder, because it was less straight than Wlad's and he put more weight into it.

 

The guy in my avatar is incontrovertable proof that the correct answer is NO.

 

Damn, I voted the first option but of course wanted to take the second one.

 

I like this from a scientific viewpoint. It all makes sense.

You also have to consider the boxing factors such as the ability to naturally time a punch on a moving target as well as getting leverage through the body to get a true reflection of a puncher.

The scientific formula only works if you are punching a heavy bag. It's more a measurement of natural power without factoring in effective power.

 

Yeah, this only describes the raw 'punching power'. The ability to deliver it right on the button is another story.

 

nope

 

Not at all.

Plenty of guys are beasts within their weightclass without being huge punchers