Was Tua a heavy weight lifter?

Tua was an hard puncher like Tyson and with the same size...but less technical than IronMike. Power without technique is not enough to become champion of the world.

 

i believe a flexible shoulder means whip and good delivery to a punch, but overhead press you need strong rigid tendons.

 

It's the loading of the hips, burying your rear heel, weight transfer, using shoulder rotation and whipping your fist through last and the angle. Basically technique. Force= mass x acceleration.

 

precisely. absolutely none.

 

Look at Gerry Cooney, dude looked like he never really touched a weight, just a big dude....but that left hook, man.

 

id say fbalance, accuracy and flexibility are the most important aspects of punching power. speed and strength come after, because you get slower guys with strength and perfect balance who clean clocks, and you get less physically strong guys with speed who lay people out.

 

David Lemeiux. Doesn't look like anything special, but has perfect technique and fast hands which generates massive power in his left hook.

 

generating your power right at the end of your punches as you said early is key. But tbh if wasnt for gloves, most boxers would lay an opponent out and have a severely broken hand. alot of boxers who are considered featherfists are probably more cautious with their hands.

 

There have been worse HW executions, well over better people. Ruiz was never good anyway.

 

The first round of Dempsey Willard was worse, not as fast, but definitely more brutal.
Even Charles Martin and Bermaine Stiverne became champion.
Also Ruiz was schooled by Roy Jones Jr, a natural SMW, he was not a very good HW. Tua should've pummeled him, like anyone I listed would have.

 

How come no one did so until Haye, thirteen years later? Not Jones, not Rahman, not Toney, Golota, McCline, Valuev, Chagaev, Holyfield three times? Presumably you're smart enough not to label all those fighters bums, old men or blown up SMWs