How do i knock out a sparring partner thats twice my size?

[vB Martin]

If you can consistently slip his longer punches, you can win easily. There's a range within his range which is all yours. See, he won't be able to get full extension, while you will.

You're making a lot of assumptions here. Heavyweights with the ability to throw hard, short punches aren't exactly a rare breed. He could get killed trying to find that range.

[Stickman]

KO'ing a sparring partner deliberately won't make you any friends in any gym, unless there was a personal thing of some sort. Like someone else said, if your trainer's worth a **** he already knows what kind of power you have, good or not.

[Slipx]

Yeah. When I see a newcomer try to knock someone out in their first sparring session, the first thing I do is pray he gets dropped, and most of the time they do. Then after they fall down, they are never as fierce as that first round of sparring. It's like they respect the ring after getting punked that once.

[tyson]

This guy is joking, real trainers don't let 155 guys fights heavy's.

My weight is 152, and I used to sparr with a heavyweight, just because there wasn't anyone else around.
We went at it with full force, everytime, and I had to be careful with the headpunches so that I wouldn't knock him down.
The traniners even had me sparring with 22oz gloves for a year to keep me from knocking people out in training.
He had to pull his bodypunches, but not to the head.

I can as well inform that in 2003, in the junior european championship, me and the heavyweight from Norway punched on a punching-machine to test our power. (Heavyweight in amateur equals 81 kg- around 185 pounds) He managed 124 on the machine, I managed first 126, second 127 then 128, before he dragged me away from there because all the other fighters were watching :P I weighed 63kg then... By the way, he got a bronze medal, and I lost my freakin first fight to a wussy from turkey.

I guess power aint everything, eh?

[riz]

GO TO THE BODY!!!! whenever ur in close do sum body punches... it'll help u in the later rounds

[dino]

who the hell spars with a guy almost 100 pounds bigger then them anyway?..i dont bleieve u

[buff_mike10]

who the hell spars with a guy almost 100 pounds bigger then them anyway?..i dont bleieve u

Its says he's an idiot under his name, can't argue with that

[whdempsey]

You're making a lot of assumptions here. Heavyweights with the ability to throw hard, short punches aren't exactly a rare breed. He could get killed trying to find that range.

Eh. That's my basic plan for taking out anyone (I may have a small man's complex). I have yet to run into anyone it doesn't work on. Mind you, I haven't made it to Kronk yet, so if and when I finally manage to get there, I'll tell you how it goes.

Plus, given what he said, I thought it was a fair plan to give him. Oh, and as far as heavyweights who fight well on the inside, there aren't that many these days. I would qualify that, but I don't really believe it has to be qualified. Really, when was the last time you saw a man as big as say, Jameel McCline fight really well on the inside? Rid**** Bowe? Andrew Golota, mebbe? Nah, the fact of the matter is, and this is true, at least as far as I can tell, of the sport on every level, heavyweights these days are too big to be really effective on the inside. It's part of the reason Byrd has been so successful.

[Pugnacious_Z]

hey

dont no mate

[Shaolin Bushido]

One of my sparring partners is 246, i am 155 both the same height. My trainer has me fighting him to get me used to hard punches, i've been beating this guy all the time, busted his nose today, but how can i put him on that canvas without getting nailed.

Dude, did you post this same exact question on Sherdog or is it just a coincidence? Anyway, as ET said, knocking out your training partner is counter productive.