Why isn't Bradley more powerful?

I think the punches put him down but his heart kept him there. He was looking to get DQed with that Headbutt beforehand as well.

 

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Mate, THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING WHEN WATCHING THE LAST FIGHT.

I mean, his seems to be all perfect but because of some factor he is not able to have that punching power.

I was actually thinking this - He is not sitting on the punches, just like Joe. He is more concerned about not being hit and trying to be slick hence not wasting time in sitting on the punches. If he tries to sit on the punch he needs to compensate on his slickness.

Its either slickness or sit on the punch. You can do both. Atleast this is what I could conclude for his case. He is in the likes of Joe, Sweetpea etc.,

 

That's the biggest culprit, he needs to grow a beard to balance the Ying and Yang so that the energy flows forward.

 

Weak legs, poor balance, pushes punches, doesn't close his fists properly, too top heavy.

 

Punching technique. He's not getting his body into it. (legs, hip turn, back) You'll see guys as skinny as a rail who can punch hard because he knows how to get proper leverage, and guys who look like body builders who can't.

I see Bradley throw, and even his punches he brings from the hip -- It's an arm punch. Shoot, some of those shots he throws when he is in brawling mode, I am surprised he doesn't throw his shoulder out. Horrible technique and not going to generate much power.

 

Trunk color. Bradley routinely wears Summer colors when he is clearly an Autumn.

 

I agree that it's about level of competition as much as it's about the balance. That guy never tries to find an easy way to title shot or milks his title.

 

The power stays in his biceps and doesn't travel down to his fists, it's trapped

 

Mostly a nervous system issue in addition to technique. It's like anything else like playing musical instruments or whatever, some people naturally can use their bodies a lot more efficiently than others, with a lot less tension and sympathetic tension. They don't fight themselves when exerting a force. The power instead is exerted on the external object. You can't fix that by lifting weights or changing your attitude or watching rocky movies. In fact, that will probably worsen it, making you slower and just working against yourself some more. If it can be fixed, in addition to working on technique, one must work on strengthening and relaxing the muscles and developing good range of motion. Having all your muscles work together to put the body weight and energy behind the punch. Think Kolvalev's Pilates more than an egg slamming rocky workout.

 

I can tell you exactly why, and its not his legs... exactly. There are two reasons, and the interplay with each other but can still call them separate concerns.

One - his center of gravity is too high. He carries his center of gravity up around his sternum when punching. The effect is being unbalanced, like gyro that's spinning too slowly. When he starts throwing big shots he is jerking his center of gravity with the shot, instead of generating power from a stable platform. This results in reduced power, and he even throws himself off balance.

Contrast this with Golovkin, who has bar none the best power punching form in the game. GGG carries his center of gravity down close to his navel, its very rare for him to be off balance even when punching on the move and shifting. His lower body forms a stable platform from which his upper body can roll, twist, and be used as a base from which to push against and be the backstop for torque.

Andre Ward is another fighter with a low center of gravity, though his punching form is not as oriented towards power, the benefits show in being able to move his upper body very quickly in wide arcs without losing balance, and as a base from which to move his hands quickly and accurately while doing it.

This is Bradleys primary problem.

His secondary problem, is his seeming lack of awareness of his feet. Not his "footwork" per se, but feeling the ground through his ankles and toes. His injuries from poor micro foot articulation, his lack of wearing socks, all point to this and it is a contributing factor to his balance as well. Also, I suspect he ignores his toes and either has toe issues or very weak toes, compared to his body mass.

Punching power is ultimately generated from pushing off the ground, if you cannot feel and grip the ground properly you cannot get power. You cannot form the underpinning of a stable lower body from which you can transfer energy to the upper body and fist.


So you are correct that Bradley does not have chicken legs, but the problem isn't his legs - but the symptoms are similar.

 

We can say everything about how good was his level of opponents and how hard are they to get stopped, but.

Just look at De la Hoya and Trinidad, two skinny guys who dropped and stopped some iron-chinned fighters, and even a good bigger fighters from 154 (Vargas, Mayorga) and 160 (Joppy).

Punching power depends on speed, balance, feet strength, punching technique, weight etc.

Bradley lacks something from these, that's why he doesn't hit hard enough to KO good opponents.

 

By all account Tommy Hearns wasn't known as much of a puncher in his younger/amateur days until Manny changed his technique some. Can't really think off many others off the top of my head.

 

What, are you stoopid? How would that balance him out? Its obviously a "man-scaping" problem. If Timmy wants proper balance he needs to let the short and curlies grow free.