Is there a link between hand size and punching power?

[SplitSecond]

why do heavyweights punch harder than featherweights?

because they are "alot" heavier? for starters

[SplitSecond]

hardest puncher, ever?

[D-MiZe]

There's so much that goes into a punch and it's power that you can't really pin-point a single attribute. A lot of those attributes contradict themselves e.g long arms allow more leverage, short arms don't but are closer to your centre of gravity.

Hearns & Marciano, both big punchers but different mechanics.

[Juof]

Thomas hearns had some massive fists so maybe

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The more force/mass you can put onto the smallest impact area possible the better, else boxers would slap each other.

On the other hand your hands can't be too small in boxing for worry of fragile bones.

I don't think there's any real advantage to abnormal sized hands.

[Juof]

hardest puncher, ever?

Taking a happy slap off him would result in a knockout

[hectari]

Bruce Lee people who think he would "overcome size using magic" are the worst.

I was around in the early days of MMA and we had hoped that would disprove the magical kung fu Bruce Lee **** most people imagined martial arts to be because of movies...

Nope. In fact now it's going around the Bruce Lee "invented" MMA (something that's been around since ancient Greece). I give up. Some people just think movies are real no matter what.

Well UFC and Dana White are the ones promoting Bruce Lee as the godfather of MMA concept.

Bruce Lee is my hands down favorite movie bad ass, along with Bronsan.

But most of the guys who made Bruce out to be this super human were mainly black guys lol, I remember when I was a kid growing up in the 80s. They had that movie last dragon remember that the main character moved and acted like bruce lee and was name bruce leeroy.

Bruce Lee was a very philosophical thinking martial artist, and I do give him credit he was ground breaking in his approach to martial arts, he said all that fancy traditional martial arts is useless take the most affective things from each art and use them, he said a jab is one of the most effect punches, and simple and powerful is better.

He implemented grappling later on but died, Judo Gene Lebelle said Bruce was ahead of his time, he believed in cross training, weight training, and mixing martial arts.


This is a good idea of why people consider him ahead of his time, he was a no BS guy who broke the barrier of martial arts and traditional martial arts.

"Someone with only a year of training in boxing and wrestling could easily defeat a martial artist of twenty years experience."
--Bruce Lee

[hectari]

Thomas hearns had some massive fists so maybe

yes he did, he was tall and lanky but with a wide broad build.

[El Angel]

You got knocked out by a shelf.

ETHER. Fuck off Booty Dew.

[creekrat77]

Well take the case of for example ballistics.

.45 APC @ 230 Grain 850fps = ~365ftlb of energy
.45 APC @ 230 Grain 950fps = ~460ftlb of energy

Now take a .40S&W or .40 Cal

.40S&W @ 135 Grain 1350fps = ~565ftb of energy

So, in this case the smaller/faster and close to 50% lighter bullet carries much more energy than even the fastest/heaviest of .45 APC.

Its all about technique, speed of the punch and and following thru or punching thru the target.

And to close, like someone else mentioned earlier...you got to use your legs and torso...ie: Technique

45ACP with the right loading will deliver more muzzle energy than the 40S&W