Is punching power the most overrated attribute in boxing and are devastating punchers a myth?

Having an iron chin is the most overrated

 

Pretty much. Attritional guys like Vitali with high stoppage ratios due to just grinding down their opponents can't be considered in the same ballpark of punching power as the one punch lights out guys like Tyson, Tua, Wilder and co.

 

If he wanted to lose with Ali why decide to lose both fights? Wouldnt have 1 fight on 2 been enough?
Fixing the 1st fight he could have made a lot of money.
Winning the second much more money than in the 1st.

Nah, something's bugging me.

 

No

 

What op forgot to mention is that it gets harder to get emphatic kos going up in the higher levels as the talent increases making it harder to score kos at the elite levels.

We've all seen "duds" a fight which goes 12 rounds instead of the power puncher steamrolling him as usual. Some journey men are tough as nails. There is a guy in Ike ibeabuchi s career who was a gate keeper, his body was SHREDDED and he could take a punch I forget his name. Then you have clowns/ amusers as the talent of the top tier but make a mockery out of fights like Emmanuel Augustus always clowning around. He was Floyd's stiffest test and was Kimbo slices cousin.

 

George Foreman was 48 years old when he fought Lou Savarese, for God's sake.

They say the last thing to go on a fighter is his power. And the last thing to go on George was his power. His KO punch against Moorer was his last knockout.

 

That's interesting - so how did Ali manage to make Liston's neck & back ripple with impact?

Ali was the GOAT HW, but even he couldn't do that.

Maybe the wind from the punch made those ripples?

 

Noaya Inoue. The Monster.

 

Nobody ever punched hard.

The impacts of each and every punch ever thrown were tiny, and identical.

 

I believe you're wrong on that claim.

There is no doubt whatsoever that a punch was thrown and that it connected.

You can argue as to whether or not its was a KO-calibre punch.

 

In fact I believe that can be proven mathematically.

 

That art of the KO is more than just about raw power, so yes power is over rated as an attribute because if you can't deliver that power then it's less effective which is why a puncher can look murderous in one fight but then lacking power in another because the style of their opponent has been able to prevent them from landing that KO punch.

For me there's 3 aspects to being an effective puncher.

1 - Power - the ability to generate power itself which is achieved by technique and conditioning the body.

2 - Set up - the ability to either set a trap to land a flush shot or a combination of shots or the ability to create a gap in their opponents defence to land a flush shot or combination.

3 - Delivery/Timing - even if you have set up your opponent or created an opening you still must deliver than shot with precise timing and accuracy before they can anticipate it coming and brace for impact or roll with the shot to take away some of it's power.

If all 3 are achieved then the KO comes but if an opponent can prevent the set up or anticipate the punches coming then they negate the power.

 

Give me skill and superior ring IQ over punching power any day.

 

I would say yes, but only considering the fact that casual boxing fans tend to celebrate only the hard puncher fighters. In that case, fighters that sell lot of PPV seems to be just the type of guys who have a lot of ko. Meanwhile the most skilled fighters sell much more less ppv, and then they would obviously wait for big pay day instaed of take risks with no regard guaranteed.
Crawford, Loma, Usyk, Bivol, Stevenson, Haney ecc.. fatigued more to reach high level numbers compared to Davis, Ggg, Joshua, Garcia, Spence ecc.. i know that fighters who dont speak english have difficult, but when they beat some famous fighter, they immediatly gain recognize from the big public. Moreover, every famous fighter tend to duck some of these skilled fighters who dont bring much money on the table. A side, B side, and bull**** like this, dont allow fans to see what they want to see.

 

that video doesn't prove anything, the punch is completely hidden at the time it either connected or missed.