The taller the boxer, the stronger puncher it is?

[rge]

Not to get into the Morales and Pac debut but Pac is a bigger puncher. Morales just has a style that will always to difficult for him and a great chin. (thats why he was not rocked to much by Pac in the fight)

Thanks for the reply, it also may be chin related for this fight, although I don't think if it is the only reason. Commenter of the fight in the channel I saw it is very experienced, and said that Pac punches were small cat punches that don't hurt, while Morales throw some hard shots in some rounds.

[The Troll]

Some of the biggest punchers ever were below 6 feet tall and Marciano was below 6ft in height and only weighed like 187 pounds but has the highest recorded hit on record recorded PSI. (pounds of pressure per square inch) over 1000

[rge]

i think its the bone mass, tyson hits much harder than holyfield but holyfield got more muscul than tyson. no matter how much and hard holyfield train he will never hit as hard as tyson. holyfield was blowing up from crusierweight so he didnt had the natural body and bone mass as tyson.

Thanks for your comment, mass is main point of the thread question, first I think on taller boxers but then on mass to include others such as Tyson and Tua. Yes I think that if Holyfield decides to have even biggest arms, shoulders and back he still will hit less than Tyson.

[TRUEVisionDC]

Its more to do with height then bone mass. Actually the shorter the fighter the more power they have, or should have if punching correctly. Shorter fighters have better balance and leverage. Redmenace is correct about throwing punches with your whole body, like in golf (sorry) its the motion of the hips arms, legs, etc. Same with throwing a punch in boxing.

and to heavy hands, way to know your history. Wilde was what? 5'2". See short!! Damn, come to think of it, borderline midget...

[rge]

One thing I've never understood about some boxers, is they only seem to train their upper body. I've seen pics of Holyfield where his shoulders and arms looked huge, but his legs look like twigs. Tyson on the other hand, has reasonably big arms(but short) and shoulders, but smaller than most heavyweights. He does have MASSIVE legs. Tyson throws a punch with his whole body, and he can put those legs into it. It's like throwing in baseball. You don't throw solely with your arm; You throw with your entire body. So why don't more boxers balance their muscle and build stronger legs? The guys at the lower weight-classes seem to be a little more balanced muscle-wise, at least.

I think Tyson has bigger legs than Holyfield because he is a true heavyweight and more muscle can surround his bigger bones (apart from other reasons like genetics), this is about comparing the two.

And about the upper Holyfield body bigger than the lower body, also I can think that he don't want massive legs to allow for his foot movement.

Some think that how you take a punch with the entire body is the reason of the power, or part of it.

[rge]

good observation. At the lower division, Pacquiao has the biggest legs. Maybe that explains his power? I don't know!

I think he has big power at 122lbs, and he is reasonably big either leg mass or body bone mass, and I believe it helped him, but I read he will stay at 130, I prefer him lower weight, at least 126.

[rge]

Some of the biggest punchers ever were below 6 feet tall and Marciano was below 6ft in height and only weighed like 187 pounds but has the highest recorded hit on record recorded PSI. (pounds of pressure per square inch) over 1000

I read about his power, but also we know that is very difficult to imagine him hitting harder than George Foreman and many others.

How reliable is that PSI test, and did they do it to all the other heavyweight punchers?

Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey said that the biggest heavyweight puncher is Foreman, and they lived until 1980 aproximately. After that we have: Mike Tyson, Frank Bruno (there are similar comments on his PSI biggest than all others, but again, how reliable), David Tua, Lennox Lewis and Samuel Peter, I imagine some of them hitting stronger than Marciano. What others think?

[rge]

Its more to do with height then bone mass. Actually the shorter the fighter the more power they have, or should have if punching correctly. Shorter fighters have better balance and leverage. Redmenace is correct about throwing punches with your whole body, like in golf (sorry) its the motion of the hips arms, legs, etc. Same with throwing a punch in boxing.

and to heavy hands, way to know your history. Wilde was what? 5'2". See short!! Damn, come to think of it, borderline midget...

About shorter fighters having better balance and leverage, I think it affects equilibre, so they may have advantages rising from a knockdown. But I don't think shorter means more power.

About Wilde, yes he punched hard, but I don't know compared with current boxers.

[bigdlb12]

mayweather vs Corrales

[jack_the_rippuh]

big punchers - some are short, some are tall. If you have no power in your punch now, you'll never have power in your punch.