Who in the world decided to divide punches into two classes: jabs and POWER punches? Why is every non-jab considered a power punch? I see pitter-pat rights and hooks scored as power punches that have no power on them at all. I see jabs (ODLH for instance) that are sometimes far more powerful than some right crosses and hooks. It may not matter as judges don't see those stats, but they are often used to justify scoring -- Pillowpunch Pete landed 120 more power punches than Slugger Rocco, etc. I'm perplexes as to how this myth (that non-jabs should somehow count more) has become part of accepted boxing analysis. You'd think the experts would know better and would point out this falacy.
There are very few fighters whose jab is remotely close to their power hand. And hooks and uppers off of the lead hand are also much more powerful than jabs. And given that a good % of punches thrown in fights are jabs, it makes enough relative sense. Just one more reason why Compubox is a sometimes flawed tool. "Tool" being the keyword. Everybody should be making up their own minds on what landed and the effectiveness of them.
Every punch with the 'back hand' is not as powerful as a good jab. A guy who goes tap-tap-BOOM is throwing one power punch.
