Who punches faster, Calzaghe or Taylor?

[Hagler★]

id say taylor, he throws some good combinations, and unlike calzaghe, he punches with power. not offense to joe but at times he tends to slap with his shots, it takes much more effort to punch quickly while doing it with power. that's probably why taylor looses so much gas and tires in the later rounds. you save a lot more energy by keeping busy with the workrate, without the intention to really hurt your opponent. that's joe's tactic and that's why he stays fresh all through out the 12 round fight. he only opens up when he senses the opportunity to do so. but overall id say calzaghe is the busier of the two, but taylor is a faster and harder puncher.

i was wondering if any1 has seen calzaghe fight his flurries are like how we used to fight in school head downjust wail and hope to catch dude

[GunStar]

Joe slaps faster and Taylor punches faster.

[TRANSWARP]

Joe slaps faster and Taylor punches faster.

100% correct

[Randall_Hopkirk]

Oops I voted for taylor as i mistakingly thought it was a who punched harder poll.

[Clegg]

id say taylor, he throws some good combinations, and unlike calzaghe, he punches with power. not offense to joe but at times he tends to slap with his shots, it takes much more effort to punch quickly while doing it with power.

I have to disagree with this. Taylor hasn't knocked anyone out in a world title fight. Ever. He hurt Pavlik and I'm not saying he can't punch at all, but it's not like he throws non-stop bombs. Calzaghe does sometimes load up on his punches, and when he does so he still remains fast. The 7th round against Lacy is a good example of this, as are his earlier fights, when he threw more power shots than he does now.

I like Jermaine Taylor, but I think personally that Calzaghe is the quicker puncher. I didn't see the fight with Spinks(and probably never will considering how bad it apparently was) but unless he showed greater speed in that fight than in his others, I have to go with JC.

i was wondering if any1 has seen calzaghe fight

Nah, of course not. Actually that's not a bad question, a lot of people around here seem to like commenting on fighters they haven't seen much of, and Calzaghe seems to be the one such people love to discuss.

Joe slaps faster and Taylor punches faster.

Yeah, the way he was slapping Lacy all over the ring, busting up his face, knocking him down, knocking him back into the corner was some brilliant slapping.

[MickyHatton]

Calzaghe is the faster guy IMO, even before his hand trouble began he used to throw lightening fast arm punches to un balance his opponents and score points before setting down on his shots.
That doesn't mean he cant punch hard becuase he can, he just chooses not to, to protect his hands.
Neither fighter has one punch KO power IMO but Calzaghe has had more wins by stoppage than Taylor has had fights.

[PeROxiDE]

Oops I voted for taylor as i mistakingly thought it was a who punched harder poll.

In which case you are still wrong, Calzaghe has immeasurably more power than Taylor. Joey C would have hospitalized Pavlik in that infamous 2nd round.

It might be time to start finding JC videos to finally end this slap hype.

[Xyei]

Calzaghe his definitely faster.