Where do these guys get their punching power?

[SalimShady1212]

Guys like Golovkin, Matthysse and so on aren't exactly big guys but both have crazy knockout power whereas you have guys like Tim Bradley who has abs on his back but isn't known for his punching power. So where exactly does it come from? Core, Legs, Muscles?

[daggum]

PED's. the only way to fight back against them is to force your opponents to wear pillow gloves.

[Southpawology]

genetics. Its the same thing with speed, chin, etc. Its just engrained into your DNA from birth.

[CANELOLUJAH]

its all natural!

im a power puncher (yea yea blah blah) but even when I throw throwaway punches I cant throw em with out them feeling solid (no ****) if you will and thats my body etc turns and moves that way by its self nothing I can do about it.

They punch with their entire body even if it doesnt look like it they do.

muscles are good to a point but beyond a point they are a hinderence.

imagine like blocks that are offset

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straight down the middle is the strongest it will ever be, well power punchers know how to line their body up to get maxium power.

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hard to explain but unless you really a power puncher you wont understand.

[Showtime..]

Genetics and form.

[Check_hooks]

Theres an article I read in ESPN ****zine that said the most important metric in sports is how many pounds of force you can generate with your legs

They had a bunch athletes stomp on this scale thing and jump off

The higher results they got, the faster they could throw a baseball, swing a bat, higher they could jump, farther they could throw a football, etc

[Beercules]

Steroids and dirty water.

[Elroy1]

Guys like Golovkin, Matthysse and so on aren't exactly big guys but both have crazy knockout power whereas you have guys like Tim Bradley who has abs on his back but isn't known for his punching power. So where exactly does it come from? Core, Legs, Muscles?

Large ripped muscles play next to no role at all in punching power, that's why.

Only in the power transfer phase of a punch does muscle strength play a role momentarily.

Even then.. Get a heavy bag, line it up, and smack it with all of your might as hard as you can dropping all of your weight into it with the best technique you can muster...

Feel the contraction of all of your muscles involved? None of your muscles contract NEARLY as hard as they do when you perform a squat, deadlift, pulldown, press etc during even the hardest punch.

Even during a push punch, normally bad form for a boxer, which offers the punch an extra shove through the target, does the contractile force not equal the same as that which builds Bradlee type muscles.

Strength has an importance in bracing shots and working an opponent in boxing but it's role in punching power is limited.

Fact.

But to give you an answer, it's definitely the core muscles, not the peripheries. It's the muscles on the inside lines of the body which are not readily bulging that adduct your limbs to the centreline that help generat/transfer power.

[Elroy1]

Steroids and dirty water.

Who the hell is that girl in your sig??

That has got to be one of the hottest *****es I've ever seen! lol

[Check_hooks]

An example would be Tim Bradley. Dude has muscles coming out of his earlobes but is feather fisted. Reason? Skips leg day

Opposite example. Manny Pacquiao. He has the biggest calves P4P in the sport. And Shane Mosley recently said that Pacquiao hits harder than Canelo and he said a few years ago that Pac hits harder than USS Cunningham who is a Heavyweight.