Theory about knockouts and punch resistance

Yes venom is very different than taking an impact to the head, clearly.
I would say that the majority of fighters who take punishment in the gym are not fighters who have a chance at a proper career, they get fed to the talent, their career is just paid to spar. I worked with a lad who loved boxing and wouldn’t say no in the gym and he would get overmatched in weight, he would come in to work with his face smashed up all the time.
It was disgusting to see and over the course of a couple of years you could see him being punch drunk, this lad wasn’t a talent he had no chance but he wasn’t looked after and he wasn’t looking out for himself.
The talent gets looked after, they take their licks in the ring not in the gym.

 

I would say that it is a completely different thing, and that would come under punch avoidance, technically speaking you are resisting the punch or strategically softening the impact and the ability to make a connection that could knock you out.
Previously I was talking about the ability to take a punch and not get knocked out, so if I didn’t explain it correctly I meant or at least I assumed it as ment, as the ability to take the shot (and not get knocked out). In this context it seems right to say that the shot was taken flush, and that removes some of the variables such as riding the shot, turning away.
I probably wasn’t clear enough when I was talking about punch tolerance, but that was in the subconscious sense.
As a chef by profession such a thing exists as ‘chef hands’ I can literally take something out of the oven with my bare hands without getting burned providing I don’t hold on it for too long, it’s about 2-3 seconds generally, but if I take a week off work when I come back I get burned regularly because the tolerance is low.
So the skin on my hands is literally conditioned to be less sensitive to heat than the average person. This is subconscious conditioning.
So I guess what I’m saying here is that posture and positioning are not the same thing, and even with all the best training in this aspect when you take that flush shot, your position is kind of irrelevant to your ability to take a shot and not get knocked out, a flush shot is a flush shot and that puts you back to the genetic and physical advantage.
So it absolutely does make a massive difference in the likelihood that you will get knocked out but it has very little or almost nothing to do with your ability to take a shot (flush) and not be knocked out.
Does that make sense? I’m not saying it’s right but it’s how I see it.

 

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@Purplemagic this vid here gives solid support for your theory. Look at the brutal snap back of the skinny guy’s skull but he eats the shot like prime Golovkin.

 

Very sad. Bad gym. I've seen this first hand and been party to it before (I was the one getting smashed up 3-4 days a week). You get no dedicated time with the coach, you definitely become more skilled but it's rarely enough to catch-up with the coaches favourites, also it's outright usury. Either you learn how to get better and focus on winning sparring sessions with the special boys, and/or you speak up for yourself when you get tired of being a human punchbag and demand dedicated time, or you just walk away and find another gym. I'd go for the latter. Not a good showing for the coaches being so uncompassionate.

 

Agreed I didn’t witness it first hand but I saw the impact it had,very disappointing

 

I think it's one of those things like punching power that will probably never be figured out.

 

What about a temple shot knockdown. You could get pounded in the head by a light puncher a bunch of times in a row. And then suddenly a shot to the temple short circuits the balance and senses in a g , he then falls down. Wouldn't that be neurological? Meaning some stuff along the lines of "the human body has x amounts of pressure points, each point is fatal". That would mean: we should have another discussion about BODY shots. Could it be based on who has the better set of ab muscles? Or situationally maybe in the LIVER would be the answer perhaps... Look at Donny Lalonde. It was a shot that almost ruined his career: sugar Ray Leonard hit him in the neck, aka the Adams apple. No spine or cuncossion involved, simply another one of the body's pressure points. Wasn't there a hip hop group named Wu Tang clan who brag about entering the 36 chambers? Meaning the deadly 36 fatal pressure points striking points. But yes I do agree about spine shots taking the Moxy and consciousness out of a fighter too. And I do believe brain fluid helps too meaning dangerous little weight fighters, less dangerous heavyweight fighters.

 

And what explains explosive power? Is explosive speed? Why is Usyk not a big hitter? And what’s “power”?

yes, a good trainer can improve technique and power, but that’s on the edges.