Has tysons power ever being measured ? .

[XionComrade]

I think he did get his punching power psi (pounds per square inch) measured once in his prime (late 80's/early 90's) along with other heavyweights of his era. I don't remember the actual numbers, but Tyson didn't have the highest psi numbers. Fellow heavyweight Frank Bruno had the highest.

But that doesn't mean anything. For example, Jeff Lacy had the highest psi rating in his punch in the entire 2000 U.S. Olympic team, higher than heavyweight teammate Calvin Brock. But Lacy probably isn't even the hardest punching Supermiddleweight in boxing.

In all seriousness the best way to measure a fighters power is to have them hit the bag. Their are different things that go into measuring power this way, I think that when you hit the bag, the more damage that is done to the bag (for example the size of the hole left in it) is bone damaging/body breaking power. The more the bag moves when you hit it may be KO power.

From my experience seeing top punchers like McClellan, Foreman, Lacy, Tyson, and a few others hit the bag is that punching power begins to level out once you hit the middleweights, it is not unusual for a middleweight to hit harder than a heavyweight.
Gerald McClellan, from what I have seen of him, hit harder than most of the top 100 hardest hitting heavyweights including Tyson. Jeff Lacy from what I have seen of his training was up their to, hitting harder than Tyson and alot of the top 100 heavyweights. Don't even get started on Bob Foster lol...

I wonder how many PSI Shaver's punch would get on the Fight Science show?

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Gerald hit harder than all of them, Tyson included?? You should have your internet taken away for even thinking these things.

[hemichromis]

measuring punch ower is difficult but can be done

the object punched in both marciano's and brunos test weighed about 6-8 kg which just happens to weigh the same as a heavy's head. the acceration is then measured. with the acceration and the mass accerated you can measure the power.


i recently went to one of the arcades that has one of those speed ball punch power measurers. I wa real chuffed to get 934 (out of 999 max) for my right cross. i then tried a left jab and i got 940! i don't think this can be accurate; if it is i either punch like a ***** and the machine is made for kids or myjab is more powerful than my cross. i do not beleive wither

[STEELHEAD]

aw no not another childboy tyson thread...do you need points that bad cornponio.**** you and go back to ******** or dog sites idiot and play with the other children. fey mother****er... get out of here.how lame you is childboy.

[SnoopySmurf]

400 million to 30K in debt is beyond ******ed. I bet if you gave a ******ed person 400 million they wouldnt end up 30K in debt. Tyson is a moron.

There have been plenty if people, smarter than you probably, that have gone bankrupt.

[MAXWELL_]

when will it ever end with these tyson threads! get a life. or grow up.

[squealpiggy]

You can measure punching power in terms of psi pressure, but you cannot measure its effect. A knockout puncher has timing, speed and angle. It doesn't take that high a PSI rating to knock someone out, but you can hit extremely hard and still not manage it if you don't land clean.

[.Mik.]

You can measure punching power in terms of psi pressure, but you cannot measure its effect. A knockout puncher has timing, speed and angle. It doesn't take that high a PSI rating to knock someone out, but you can hit extremely hard and still not manage it if you don't land clean.

That is the correct answer. Of course you can measure the power, but the effect, the accuracy, the angles, the surprise factor etc etc. Those you cannot measure.

[SnoopySmurf]

when will it ever end with these tyson threads! get a life. or grow up.

From now on, no more Ali, Hagler, Hearns, Foreman, Marciano, Robinson etc etc threads.


Not.

[deliveryman]

THERE...IS...NO....WAY...TO MEASURE A MANS PUNCHING POWER. Geez, man, you guys cant be THIS naive! It is crazy tothink a mans power could be accurately predicted because guess what? Show me a guy who measures off the chart on these machines and I will find you someone who will take his best punchand laugh in his face rightafterwards. A mans power can ONLY BE "MEASURED" BY the effect it has on another man and even then it is a thing where the other mans resiliancy and the circumstances of the exact moment of impact have as much to do with the effect of the punch as the actual punch itself does

I understand what you're saying, completely.

But resiliancy has nothing to do the "power" of the punch itself, they're two completely different things.

Just because one could take a righthand to the face and stay on his feet, and another person gets hit with the exact same punch, thrown at the exact same speed, with the exact same body weight and leverage behind it, and is knocked out cold, doesn't make the punch any more "powerful"

It's called physics. A Watt of power is a Watt of power, anyway you slice it. It isn't subjective to the person getting hit.

Now I agree that circumstances play a huge role with the EFFECT of the punch (whether or not the person braced themselves for the punch, how fast their head snapped back and in what direction, etc). But that still doesn't change the number of Watts at which the punch was thrown at.