Ali's Punching Power?

[prinzemanspopa]

A virtual featherfist throughout most of his career.In his prime,he had his legs and was sharp,accurate and consistent enough to cause harm over the duration of a fight.



The chunky 70's version had only a fraction of the handspeed,timing and accuracy of the peak version.Sometimes,sitting down on his punches was a necessity.


The hardest punches he ever threw were against Foreman,Bonavena and Chuvalo in the rematch.He actually cornered Chuvalo at one point and unleashed a vicious assault in the attempt of stopping him.



Stil featherfisted,though.

[SplitSecond]

i honestly dont know, it's confusing because tho he is ko'ing people, the ko's look so unimpressive and most of the times just looks like the guys are faking

so i dunno what to tell you

[Boogie Nights]

I'd say he had average power, tends to get under rated though.




Disagree with this, Pernell Whitaker I feel had decent power to get more of his opponents out of there but he seemed to love being in the ring so much that he would make it go the distance.

gonna have to disagree with that, the fact that most of pernell's fights went the distance had nothing to do with his love of the ring, it had everything to do with him knowing that he had the best chance of winning by using defence and skills instead of making himself vulnerable in a slugfest.

again no boxer likes to do more than he has too, when you're in a boxing ring fighting for money through hurt there's nothing there to love.

point being, if a fighter can get his man out of there he will.

[Boogie Nights]

lol thread is getting out of hand here.

lewis punched harder than ali period. Forget P4P, it's a term that old geezers came up with to rank fighters, being the same weight, height, age blah blah blah

jeez most of those fighters wouldnt be the fighters they ultimately were had they been any different from their genetical pool

i hate sometimes how this whole P4P bs is used, especially in cases like this.

[Calilloyd]

How do you rate Ali's punching power on a whole? Only ever man to stop Bonavnea & Foreman. Is he a underrated puncher?

Yes. Not a huge puncher but hard enough to hurt or do damage. First fighter to drop Wepner, and stop Bonevena, Lyle, and Foreman.

[Calilloyd]

Oleg Maskaev poleaxed Rahman TWICE in far more devastating fashion than Lewis ever did.

No he didn't. Lewis did it 4 rounds.

[Calilloyd]

Id rank him with Lewis in terms of power...not that Lewis had much power.

No way. Lewis didn't have much power? The history section has been deteriorating with comments like this.

[Calilloyd]

sonny liston?

who did lewis ever not TKO besides an older tyson and rahman to even be deemed a great puncher?

[them_apples]

Lewis IMO was a heavier puncher than Ali, but Ali had speed to set his punches up better.

If I was given a choice too take a punch though, I'd opt for Ali's over Lewis 84' reach hammering into my face.

IMO Lewis was a heavy puncher, he should rank amongst punchers. I just don't see him as a KO artist. He didn't always look for the KO for fear of getting tagged himself.

[Megamasterking]

I think that Ali had more power than most people think, because he was so fast, he was not a small man either, 6` 3 and 215, a very fast boxer who is that big must hit very hard. Watch a fight with Ali and right after watch a Klitschko fight, the speed difference is just crazy. Also don't forget this ! Punch = 1/2 M.Vē M=mass V=speed