Personally I think the most important thing that coaches and trainers can teach their fighters is not how to hit (speed, power, etc) but when and where to hit. Timing and placement are byfar the most important parts of a clean KO. We know the weakest spots on the head, body and legs, so developing a persons accuracy to be able to properly strike those areas is paramount, as is the timing. Hitting someone when they're off balance, recovering, or inbetween techniques is the surest way to maximize damage. Too much focus on power and speed over precision and timing. Focus on the latter two and you can take someone who may not hit that hard and at least get them TKO'ing people even if it won't be a full shut down stiff as a board KO.
I’m glad someone else mentioned this. With good timing and accuracy you are able to use the enemy’s movement against him. If you connect with even a relatively wreak punch such as a jab, you can KO someone as long as you time it to hit them when their face and weight are moving into the punch. Least amount of effort, maximum effect
As they say, precision beats power and timing beats speed. Me personally though? I'd rather have the speed and power than accuracy and timing. Guess we can't be all gifted tho
I agree. Look at Gaethje vs Holloway. I believe Gaethje hits way harder than Max Holloway judging from muscle mass, bone density and athleticism. Plus Gaethje used to wrestle when he was a 4, Max didn't even start martial arts before 14-15. Supposedly Gaethje is way more stronger than Holloway physically. But what makes Max win it is his accuracy, how he timed his punch and how expert he was at striking department.
Like Firas said, punching power is mostly genetic, of course technique will make you hit "faster" and harder", but you will never have that touch of death and that one punch knockout power if you don't already have it. There are many genetic factors to this and some are still unknown, but here is a list of the most notable punching power factors... 1 - Muscle fiber type: Your fast-twitch to slow-twitch muscle fiber ratio is completely genetic, and guys with high percentage of fast- twitch muscle fibers tend have more explosive power, but less stamina. 2 - Bone structure: Wide shoulders, long arms, big hands, thick wrist, short and thick waist, big traps, large back, and overall high bone density, all of this can greatly contribute to punching power 3- The attachment of the muscles to the bone: Where your muscles are attached to the bone can be a big factor as well. Let's take the biceps for example, the tendon that attaches the biceps to the radius bone, the closer to the end the attachment of the bone is, the more leverage you will get.
@Some Guy i mean that isn't logical. We could talk about weight classes, that could be productive. If I teach a guy to throw a strike effectively and then have him weight train the muscles involved in that strike then the force will increase so long as the muscle gained is fast twitch. At some point his force will be enough combined with an effective strike to deliver concussive force to an opponent of a certain size and fitness. Of course that sounds easy. And it is. On paper. Timing accuracy sense of where to strike and form and force of the strike are what make up a ko shot. They can all be taught. But somebody has to want that bad enough. I'd say it's just rotational force applied over a short enough distance and you're there, you just gotta impart that force.
@Some Guy Just because someone has short arms and small hands doesn't mean he won't have that one punch knockout power, it's just less likely. Look at the amount of factors i've listed, and there are probably some less important other factors that i haven't listed, you don't have to have all of those attributes combined to have that one punch power knockout. But i've noticed that most of knockout artists have either long arms, big hands, or both, there are exceptions of course.
@@morganthem We are not talking about weight. Obviously, a 125lbs boxer will never hit as near as hard as 240lbs boxer. Also, most combat fighters do a little bit of weight training, but only to an extent. Obviously an boxer won't list as often as a bodybuilder or a powerlifter, if he does, he becomes counterproductive. Lifting weights is a PUSHING/PULLING MOTION. You exert as much force as possible, as consistently as possible, to lift the heaviest weight you can. During a pushing motion, the object is moved by you first establishing contact and exerting force over a relatively extended period of time. The natural progression of lifting weights is to lift heavier. Of course, everyone tries to lift fast but once they’re able to lift something, the next step is to lift HEAVIER. Speed is not the focus, strength is. Unfortunately many beginner fighters falsely believe punching to be the same pushing motion. These beginners think the goal of punching is to push their fist with as much force as possible to penetrate their opponent as hard as possible. Punching is a SNAPPING MOTION. A snapping motion is to exert as much force as possible in the least amount of time. With a snapping motion, you accelerate your hand towards the object and then use the IMPACT of that acceleration to exert force.
I think some of these guys have natural power, but what separates people like mcgregor is the timing. Counterpunches are particularly deadly because they catch you when your body is focusing on flexing your arms to punch and not your neck to take the incoming punch
punching power comes from: 1) technique 2) weight: heavier you are...the harder your pucnhes 3) relative strength: lets say A can do 100 push ups,sit ups,etc...B can only do 20 push ups,sit ups,etc....A is most likely stronger than B 4) Genetics: Some are naturally strong 5) Determination/willpower
Another thing worth mentioning is the importance of timing and accuracy as it pertains to knockouts. Even if someone doesn’t have the ability to generate the raw power of someone like Mike Tyson, they can still KO guys if they are able to time their shots to connect as the enemy is coming in. I’ve seen fights where someone throws what looks like a regular, low power jab and scored a KO because they delivered it accurately right on the chin, and most importantly, they timed it to connect as the opponents face was moving toward the punch. So if you train your accuracy and develop your timing to a high level, you can in essence double the force of impact. Of course this is much easier said than done, and it takes much more skill than someone who naturally hits hard since all they have to do is connect. But I think that a knock out is much more impressive and even beautiful when it is timed perfectly an looks effortless.
Coach have you heard/read the work from DR. Andy Galpin? He's a muscle fiber typing expert and has taken muscle biopsies from a pair of identical twins, one a marathon runner for 35 years and the other a sedentary truck driver, the marathon runner had 90%slow twitch and the trucker was 50% slow 30% fast and 20% ultra fast twitch muscle. The difference cannot be genetic as they have identical genes.
There's a workout Arthur Beterbiev (%100 KO ratio in 15 fights) recommends for having the touch of death and it resembles a push up on fingers, knuckles and wrists. He attributes a lot of his power to that and his logic is that is strengthens the wrist and hand muscles. When a person has weak hands/wrists, it act like a spring and there's bounce but when you have solid hands, they're like hammers and your knuckles/metacarpal don't move. That's how he's able to KO guys with a very short punch. I also feel that my current limitation in punching power is my hands. I'm around 235lbs and use wraps+rival RB10 gloves(one of the best bag gloves on the market) yet even with added protection, I still hurt my hand when I hit the bags. It's as if your body can generate far more power than your hand can withstand so you have to find a way to protect/strengthen your hands.
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Probably heard it from you sometime ago but thats my line of thought too. Tell that to my peeps all the time. You Rock Coach! Keep the vids coming....👀
There's stuff about how to become a KO puncher in "Championship Prizefighting" by Jack Dempsey. He is the one guy who wrote that punchers are made, not born (That I have read untill this moment at least). Now, my personal opinion is that the main factor to decide if you can punch hard or not is pain and damage resistance in the hands, and that's hard to train.
I think its like flowing in jiu jitsu, you get the leverage exactly right and it feels like youre just moving through the air and the technique is effortless. If you time everything exactly right in your kinetic chain is just creates a ton of energy and you hit hard, adding to that your muscle strength
4:25 Drill the technique, you have to have a good technique. You gotta drill the strikes. You have to drill the properly. You have to get the most leverage out of your body as possible. After that a good way to add more power, more explosivness and more speed is plyometrics.
Mr. Firas, Please read as it has important information. I am not an expert, but i have develop super strong elbows. I saw a pattern that all heavy strikes had. It is a lot simpler than we think. I was amazed by the simplicity. I thought of it. I would give a big pad to a guy and i would hit with different elbow angles. I would ask the guy to rate the power that he was receiving. Once i found the best angle for the most power, i would change that start speed of the elbow, and i would finish with the most speed. This applies to all strikes. The jab is not as strong, because the start speed of the punch is faster than the finish speed of that same jab. Now the stiff jab, is stronger because the start speed is slower than the finish speed at the end of the punch. Dan henderson used it too and many others. Try to watch a man punch slow. You will understand what i am talking about. We could talk all day about it, but i think this is a real clue to developing real power. Then i guess you would have to train your muscles a specific way to help you increase your power. But i am talking about technique. Also your whole kinetic chain should be relaxed, in order for the 100% of power that you can produce with your body, to be delivered. Please pm me if you have any questions or suggestions, or if you discover more, as i am truly interested in the subject, and your findings on it. Thank you, Kyriacos Herakleous
Nop. Accuracy is accuracy. Power is power. Bisping was accurate, Dan Henderson was not. Dan still punched Bisping's soul into oblivion in the first fight.
@@TheClinchMagazine They are danerous indeed. But, accuracy beats power all day. Why? Let me see how you gonna knock my soul into an oblivion when you can not even touch me and i hit you from anywhefe wherever i want. Also, look up at what Miocic did to Ngannou, make him tired and then the power is gone.
@@k2m524 Lack of power will always bother. No matter how much you practice for accuracy, a champion usually is a hard puncher like Tyson, Ali, Duran, Hearn, Roy Jones Jr., Sugar Ray Leonard. etc. Accuracy is an excuse, light punchers come up with to console themselves. I'm not hating on light punchers, in fact I myself think I am a light punchers, because in street fights, my punches don't feel. But I once punched someone in the abdomen, he fell down. Maybe, because I make my hands stiff which causes my punches to be slow. But my kicks are heavy. I did never practised Tae Kwon Do or any martial arts. But, once I got an opportunity to kick pads. That instructor was impressed by my kicking power.
@@k2m524 please don't bring Miocic. Miocic is not a pure striker at all. He is a decorated wrestler and he used that to tire Ngannou out. In a strict striking match, Miocic may beat Ngannou but the threat of the eminent knockout is always going to be there. Power doesn't guarantee a win but nor does accuracy. Like I said, power is power and accuracy is accuracy. Oberyn Martell vs Mountain. Oberyn was picking him apart, until he wasn't.
Emanuel Steward took turned a no knockout fighter in the amateurs, Thomas Hearns, and made him into one of the best ko artist in professional boxing history. Steward said he had to show Hearns how to use his long frame to put leverage on his punches.
At the gym, first day in August, a 5 yr student about 20 yrs old as he was holding the pads, said I had a lot of power (right hand mainly). I mean, I used to pitch baseball 90+ mph in high school so wouldn't surprise me. Haven't been back to the gym though cause I was terribly not conditioned like the rest of the class. Now I am conditioned by training on my own at the track and at home doing drills I learned there and I will return in about a month - having vein surgery on my left leg and going out of down on vacation.
One of many factors (in addition of muscles and bones of course) is innervation. Some people can recruit almost 100% of their fibers. A specialist of anatomy, conditioning and power lifting is Frederic Delavier. He has written many excellent books,you can pick up some good ideas there,it's one of the best specialist on these topics.
one training could help developing a feel for it would be to hit special pads that can't hurt your hands, but could measure the speed and slow down the hand to protect the body, and then learn to hit it faster and faster with the least amount of force involved, so the exercise would make you find paths, leverages, timing that generate speed with the whole body. I'm sure within months you could reach you previous peak speed, without forcing, then you would increase the intensity and physical training around this new technique. Today most of the fighters know how much effort they put in a punch but don't really know precisely how much power they generate which is why there is so much discrepancies between pros. And also because most of the high level trainers don't really have full comprehension of speed and power
I think you guys are just so pro you cant get much better. I have small hands and its hard to hold stuff over my head for long, and have knocked out people with head gear. But i also feel like i cant get much better too, but at the same time i dont think i was a killer to start with.
Firas i have I question how to improve your power if you are a hard hitter Because I am a hard hitter but don,t know how to make my strength better Any tips?
It took me about two years to really get a punch after I started boxing. I think a lot is relaxing the antagonists, getting the right coordination etc. After the motorpattern ist there, the power of my punch was dictated by my musclefiber. Which in my case is more medium then fast twitch. There are boxers out there, that definitly hit harder and faster then me. But is moste definitly got knock out power because i invested the time to learn the technique. You can get a more harder hitting boxer, but maybe not the best on the planet if nature didn´t provide you with the right tools.
I am almost a 100% certain people are born such a way. I experience it myself. Never trained but me and my cousin hit so very hard.I think it might even be a neurological thing that has been there since we were born. Forample ali ibn abi talib was gifted with an enormous amount of power in his hands.
i think a BIG component to power is desire to destroy. Like something dark locked in the basement. Emotions release hormones that i think give that extra sauce behind just the mechanics of the movement.
Hi Coach, I have a question unrelated to the video. In a previous video you mentioned that your wife suffered from some form of Arthritis and she fasted to reduce inflammation. Could you please elaborate on the type of fasting she did to reduce inflammation? My mum suffers from it and it would be awesome if I could help her out with something as simple as diet. Thanks.
Seek a professional who specializes on water fasting. I’m from Germany and we have a long history in fasting, especially the Buchinger clinic is very famous for its success. People with arthritis or liver problems visit the clinic regularly, which means ones or twice a year. Fasting is effective, in some cases even very effective that means people need to take less or no medication after the fast. But because the amount of medication changes during and after the fast one must seek an experienced professional. It’s unnecessary dangerous without! Wish you and your mother all the best! Peace and blessings.
Jane Doe is right, as an addition, try keto or even a carnivore diet(carnivore -body has the same reaction as with fasting), whatever feels better. Just remember to drink enough water and get enough salt and once your through the keto-flu, it feels amazing.
@@Phourtwenny curcumin? food coloring with potential health risk.... no thanks why supplements anyway? most of them have no further effect than making your pee brown.
@@aimanashole with all respect, there are a few things one should be concerned about what you said. 1. You are giving the advice to try a very restricted diet without knowing the long term effects of it. We dont have enough data to make such a claim. 2. You are suggesting that low carb diet is the "same" as fasting. But following this kind of diets you have to maintain them every single day, while a water fast in generally speaking should just be between 3-10 days a few times a year. So you cant compare a max of 10 day water fast with a 365 day diet, because the effort you have to invest are not the same. Even though your body produces ketones the metabolism of a person with zero calories compared to a person with calories is not the same. plz dont take this as personal attack, thank you. In addition we should be careful with the " do whatever feels better" thinking, becaus some things feel good in the short term but may effect you negative in the long term. procrastination feels good, there for i should procrastinate all the time? this conclusion may be dangerous.
its like with everything. you have a max capacity, and the limits to it are limits your genes determine. Within this interval, you can increase your power. But if you dont have a high max-capacity, you will never punch hard.
Well think i got the answer to this ive been training and competing about 7 years now all my years ive been not a power puncher i was more of volume guy speed punches high pace , never tired but my punches are decent max hollow style same built ... howw i did the change focusing more on strength you can follow any prgrm as you got to this level 2.5xbw squat/2.75xbw deadlift/2x bw bench /half bw dumbell x5 pull ups 1.5xbw military press- and core your core your abs should be at the highest strength focusing on dragon flags- high weight planks ... heavy kettle bells sit ups .... after that strenght phase always focusing on being explosive sprinting 2 times a week for 10 sec on 1 min rest just be explosive focus on plyometric exercise and med ball throw ,olympic lifts, your cardio will be built in sprints and bag work and sparring dont run for an hour and long distance shit it will inhance your slow twitch muscle fiber and decrease your fast ones - focusing on power shots at the bag -learn to be explosive from your whole body and believe after 2 years max your knock out power , of course this will take away time from you skill training but now after i got here i think its worth it
Adnane lardi It depends cause in martial arts nothing is wrong if it works for you thats good some of the best boxers still run long distance . And abss oh yeaa hit then hard every time they recover .... how many time ?? It deppends cause each person recover deffrent than othrrr and again for abs never do anything more than 15 reps always heavyweight and 15 and below reps
You should read peak by anders ericsson. There's not such a thing as gifted people. They may be people that are better build to perform a certain activity/movement, but they are not "born" with a killer punch.
I agree with you...I have a younger brother who has never practiced any martial arts in his life and he has a cross stronger 4 times than mine,literally touch of death Othewise I have been training mma for almost 3 years now I often tease him that he should train kickbox/box or mma..he is better athletically built than me(Im that older-smaller bro haha), and he has that abnormally strong right cross
Firas, I can help with this. I have helped MLB hitters achieve significantly more power and consistency. The punch is a swing and the same principles apply to the punch. MMA can learn from other sports. We’ve already seen this. And MMA can certainly learn from baseball in this respect. I am currently trying to speak at MMA gyms to share simple modification to technique that can produce much more power and precision in the punch. I would love to share with you.
Hey choch i'm a big fan of yours .. I'm a big fan of mma also ..i want to train jui jitsu under your instruction. I'm from india from a small village i always wanted to train but here i didn't get any scope
Firas I hit pretty hard now with both hands, and remember when I started on the bag when I was a teen, I could hit softly with my right hand only, my left hand was useless, but I developed power over time.
@@ujsimrananees haha, would it have developed on its own without training just because of puberty ? My left hand literally had no connection to my brain 😄
but the point was not that you can't get stronger. the point was that if you start out as a weaker fighter you won't be able to ever hit like Mike Tyson (at least not with the knowledge people have right now).
@@Luc-1991 yeah, I got the point and I was kindly disagreeing. I have many theories gathered from years of empirical experience, and i have arrived to the conclusion that knocking people out is only partly due to power and the part is marginal. How about you?
Could a avg joe dirty bulk to 250lbs and throw looping bombs to take power from average to consistently get kos? If a guy goes from skinny to looking like butterbean he could probably get kos with overhands hooks uppercuts shovel shots etc we can’t change genetics but we can change caloric intake. If a fighter only cares about increasing power I think he should train like a power lifter and eat enormous high protein meals frequently
From what I heard from some people in the gyms Thomas the Hitman Hearns was not a KO puncher in his armature career but Emanuel Stewart from Kronk gym in Michigan was able to develop Hearns into one of the hardest strikers in the history of boxing. Would this be a example of a striker with no KO’s turning into a KO artist? Im not trying to be wise or anything just curious. When he knocked out Duran to me that looked like a death touch KO. It was also done to Roberto Duran one of the all time greats.
@jonsavate : Yes, Thomas Hearns could be considered such an example... While there are multiple examples in boxing of people developing KO power, I think the best one would be that of Benny Leonard. Who in his own words started off being called a "feather duster boxer" due to soft punches devoid of power, but Benny Leonard eventually became a respected "power puncher" with 70 KO's on his professional record and is considered by many to be the greatest lightweight boxer of all time. Another good example would be Jack Dempsey, who once said that he wasn't a naturally born puncher, but developed his power through access to skilled trainers and years of training. If you read his book on boxing you'll find the following quote and chapter heading: *_"Punchers are made; Not Born"_*
Hi coach, I am designing a boxing rig which allows the fighter to fight in their natural style whilst hitting about 7 different points of contact each mimmicking a punch in boxing. This rig will tell the fighter their punch force and includes form analysis by way of motion tracking and analysis as well. I am very close to producing my hi-feidelity proof of concept. Would something like this actually be used within the boxing world as a training and measurement tool? All data can be logged with time stamps for statistical analysis after the session. Your feedback will be very valuable.
I don`t know if im that type of puncher i haven`t KOed anyone in boxing competitions,only TKO but all of the people that sparred me have said that i have a really strong right straight,like what Coach Zahabi said, only one limb only my right straight or right hook nothing else is special.And many times ive been told or shown i hit harder than guys who are like 45 lbs above me. So yeah i might have a potential for a hard puncher but i don`t know for sure. Im 5`10 and a half and im like 175 pounds .And im writing this just because im interested and i want to find out if im a naturally power puncher not because i want to brag so please don`t attack me in the comments if you don`t have anything useful or nice to say. Oh and also im not that muscular im like athletic type body,something like less muscular conor with shorter hands but im thick boned and have thick wrists and fists for my size
What about lifting weights and getting really strong and for example going from 170 to 230 won't that give you the strength to be able to knock someone out?
Bit late, but no gym strength has very little effect on punching power. The only thing that would give you a little more power is the extra bodyweight.
What about steroids make punch harder thing , jonny hendricks and gector lombard before usada time were toch of death persons, but after usada they did not ko any one?????
I don't believe the natural physical strength and speed is what makes a great shot, I think it's more the skills of: stubbornness ,precision , nervous intensity, ability to learn music, intelligence and imagination, taste for natural violence, humility, then if somebody like that has access to great knowledge, he can achieve greatness in some techniques with a short training. Take a very good successful dancer, which happens to really want to learn some techniques, make sure he never fought or trained fighting, and give him the top 3 trainers of the world in boxing and k b or thai b, give him time to understand and adapt to it, within one year he could have several killing blow in his arsenal, he won't be a complete fighter, but now we're talking about speed and power only. Why dancers, they have courage, intensity, precision, music (timing), at a high level most of them have intelligence. They are not afraid of pain, less intensity than fighters but more volume overall, so they know how and agree to push their body close to the breaking point. Of course some people will have naturally better suited muscle fibers and skeleton geometry, of better nerve behavior, optimized for one technique, but the average body when trained physically and in good health has tremendous reserve of accomplishment limited more by the brain/soul controlling it than some slight difference, especially when comparing solely speed and power of one particular move. If I pick only one skill overall it would be potential mental intensity, because it's the most differentiating scale between mortals
Torque in your hips is genetic. Primarily found in people from countries with a heavy influence in rhythm. That's why blacks and Hispanics dominate boxing
@TimoSlav I don't have any scientific papers published on the matter. Nor have I conducted an intricate study. As someone who is a combat sports athlete and a black man. I'm just making a hypothesis, because top level boxers are mostly black or Hispanic. And theirs a correlation between torque and rhythm
I'm not buying the McGregor touch of death shit. the only one I've seen him knock out clean is a smaller Jose Aldo. and even that didn't come down to power but to his timing. noting against Conor as a fighter tho .
Nate has one of the best chins he dropped him 3 times in 2 rounds Eddie is a worrior he dropped him 5-6 times in 2 rounds And he is a featherweight didnt cut weight for 170 and at 155 he wasnt as big as other lightweights For a feather/leightweigt it doesnt goas any better Abd he knocked out some one in 4 sec and look whar he did to ivan buchinger broke his jaw with one punch
You don’t know the power of modern pharmacology. You can have a test level 400x the level of lebron james. Not saying it will make you the same calibur of athlete but if you train hard with a test that high you WILL hit fucking hard.
@@jamesbond8540 you'll hit *harder* and if you gain a lot of muscle then your punches will weigh more, but if you have slow-twitch muscles and bad leverage in your tendons insertion points then you're not gonna hit as hard as someone who's naturally born with fast-twitch muscles and weighs as much as you do.
But it's easy to knock someone out. I haven't fault against world class fighters tho I'm sure they take smack waaaay better than the rest. I don't think Conor even has much power but he hits the button perfectly which doesn't require much power to ko someone
Luc yeah but my point is you don’t actually need great KO power to KO someone. Sure it helps a lot tho because you don’t even need to hit the target perfectly to get the KO if you have great genetic power. I think many of Tyson’s kos were not particularly clean because he has naturally high power
Disagree. It's not because of where he's hits them. It's a combination of when he hits them + power. He'd of knocked nate out by your logic because he landed flush on the chin many times. At the same time he didn't land clean at all against Dustin or Eddie but did knock them out.
Your correct in what your saying however ...No one wants to believe it because they want to think that by added 10kg on their Bench will turn them into Tyson.
There are many fighters that develop it through time he is wrong. Look at fighters who wouldn't knock opponents out then developed it through time training style etc. your not born with anything your bones tendons muscles nervous system is developed through stress and work not through genetics. I am sure mike Tyson couldn't ko anyone in the beginning of his career and neither could conor without hard stress on the body.
That's like asking, "Is it possible to increase my money and knowledge?" Yass bitch, through good form when training, consistency and proper recovery to hit it again the next day. Of course, having goals and certain outcomes that wevwant to strive for.
I love these short clips, they're super-useful!
Personally I think the most important thing that coaches and trainers can teach their fighters is not how to hit (speed, power, etc) but when and where to hit. Timing and placement are byfar the most important parts of a clean KO. We know the weakest spots on the head, body and legs, so developing a persons accuracy to be able to properly strike those areas is paramount, as is the timing. Hitting someone when they're off balance, recovering, or inbetween techniques is the surest way to maximize damage. Too much focus on power and speed over precision and timing. Focus on the latter two and you can take someone who may not hit that hard and at least get them TKO'ing people even if it won't be a full shut down stiff as a board KO.
I’m glad someone else mentioned this. With good timing and accuracy you are able to use the enemy’s movement against him. If you connect with even a relatively wreak punch such as a jab, you can KO someone as long as you time it to hit them when their face and weight are moving into the punch. Least amount of effort, maximum effect
As they say, precision beats power and timing beats speed. Me personally though? I'd rather have the speed and power than accuracy and timing. Guess we can't be all gifted tho
I agree. Look at Gaethje vs Holloway. I believe Gaethje hits way harder than Max Holloway judging from muscle mass, bone density and athleticism. Plus Gaethje used to wrestle when he was a 4, Max didn't even start martial arts before 14-15. Supposedly Gaethje is way more stronger than Holloway physically. But what makes Max win it is his accuracy, how he timed his punch and how expert he was at striking department.
Like Firas said, punching power is mostly genetic, of course technique will make you hit "faster" and harder", but you will never have that touch of death and that one punch knockout power if you don't already have it. There are many genetic factors to this and some are still unknown, but here is a list of the most notable punching power factors...
1 - Muscle fiber type: Your fast-twitch to slow-twitch muscle fiber ratio is completely genetic, and guys with high percentage of fast- twitch muscle fibers tend have more explosive power, but less stamina.
2 - Bone structure: Wide shoulders, long arms, big hands, thick wrist, short and thick waist, big traps, large back, and overall high bone density, all of this can greatly contribute to punching power
3- The attachment of the muscles to the bone: Where your muscles are attached to the bone can be a big factor as well. Let's take the biceps for example, the tendon that attaches the biceps to the radius bone, the closer to the end the attachment of the bone is, the more leverage you will get.
Don Quixote Doflamingo canelo has small hands and small arms and he got amazing power so I dont buy the big hands, long arms connection
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@Some Guy i mean that isn't logical. We could talk about weight classes, that could be productive. If I teach a guy to throw a strike effectively and then have him weight train the muscles involved in that strike then the force will increase so long as the muscle gained is fast twitch. At some point his force will be enough combined with an effective strike to deliver concussive force to an opponent of a certain size and fitness. Of course that sounds easy. And it is. On paper. Timing accuracy sense of where to strike and form and force of the strike are what make up a ko shot. They can all be taught. But somebody has to want that bad enough. I'd say it's just rotational force applied over a short enough distance and you're there, you just gotta impart that force.
@Some Guy Just because someone has short arms and small hands doesn't mean he won't have that one punch knockout power, it's just less likely. Look at the amount of factors i've listed, and there are probably some less important other factors that i haven't listed, you don't have to have all of those attributes combined to have that one punch power knockout. But i've noticed that most of knockout artists have either long arms, big hands, or both, there are exceptions of course.
@@morganthem We are not talking about weight. Obviously, a 125lbs boxer will never hit as near as hard as 240lbs boxer. Also, most combat fighters do a little bit of weight training, but only to an extent. Obviously an boxer won't list as often as a bodybuilder or a powerlifter, if he does, he becomes counterproductive. Lifting weights is a PUSHING/PULLING MOTION.
You exert as much force as possible, as consistently as possible, to lift the heaviest weight you can. During a pushing motion, the object is moved by you first establishing contact and exerting force over a relatively extended period of time. The natural progression of lifting weights is to lift heavier. Of course, everyone tries to lift fast but once they’re able to lift something, the next step is to lift HEAVIER. Speed is not the focus, strength is. Unfortunately many beginner fighters falsely believe punching to be the same pushing motion. These beginners think the goal of punching is to push their fist with as much force as possible to penetrate their opponent as hard as possible. Punching is a SNAPPING MOTION.
A snapping motion is to exert as much force as possible in the least amount of time. With a snapping motion, you accelerate your hand towards the object and then use the IMPACT of that acceleration to exert force.
I think some of these guys have natural power, but what separates people like mcgregor is the timing. Counterpunches are particularly deadly because they catch you when your body is focusing on flexing your arms to punch and not your neck to take the incoming punch
You gotta learn from Johnny Hendricks dealer, only example of sudden touch of death I know.
Thierry St-Pierre-Langlois
Good one! )))
And then it magically disappeared again 🤷🏻♂️
punching power comes from:
1) technique
2) weight: heavier you are...the harder your pucnhes
3) relative strength: lets say A can do 100 push ups,sit ups,etc...B can only do 20 push ups,sit ups,etc....A is most likely stronger than B
4) Genetics: Some are naturally strong
5) Determination/willpower
You forgot explosiveness. Strength and explosive power is different
Firas, always dropping knowledge! 👍
Another thing worth mentioning is the importance of timing and accuracy as it pertains to knockouts. Even if someone doesn’t have the ability to generate the raw power of someone like Mike Tyson, they can still KO guys if they are able to time their shots to connect as the enemy is coming in. I’ve seen fights where someone throws what looks like a regular, low power jab and scored a KO because they delivered it accurately right on the chin, and most importantly, they timed it to connect as the opponents face was moving toward the punch. So if you train your accuracy and develop your timing to a high level, you can in essence double the force of impact. Of course this is much easier said than done, and it takes much more skill than someone who naturally hits hard since all they have to do is connect. But I think that a knock out is much more impressive and even beautiful when it is timed perfectly an looks effortless.
Coach have you heard/read the work from DR. Andy Galpin? He's a muscle fiber typing expert and has taken muscle biopsies from a pair of identical twins, one a marathon runner for 35 years and the other a sedentary truck driver, the marathon runner had 90%slow twitch and the trucker was 50% slow 30% fast and 20% ultra fast twitch muscle. The difference cannot be genetic as they have identical genes.
Damn, I follow him on insta but most of the times im too low on brain cells to understand his awesome articles
There's a workout Arthur Beterbiev (%100 KO ratio in 15 fights) recommends for having the touch of death and it resembles a push up on fingers, knuckles and wrists. He attributes a lot of his power to that and his logic is that is strengthens the wrist and hand muscles. When a person has weak hands/wrists, it act like a spring and there's bounce but when you have solid hands, they're like hammers and your knuckles/metacarpal don't move. That's how he's able to KO guys with a very short punch.
I also feel that my current limitation in punching power is my hands. I'm around 235lbs and use wraps+rival RB10 gloves(one of the best bag gloves on the market) yet even with added protection, I still hurt my hand when I hit the bags. It's as if your body can generate far more power than your hand can withstand so you have to find a way to protect/strengthen your hands.
Finally someone who has knowledge, this is 100% facts
Bought becoming a supple leopard because of you. Didn't just change my sports preformance, but the whole way i move is just more efficient and i've never felt this healthy. To anyone reading this: get the book. It. Is. Worth. It
Probably heard it from you sometime ago but thats my line of thought too. Tell that to my peeps all the time. You Rock Coach! Keep the vids coming....👀
There's stuff about how to become a KO puncher in "Championship Prizefighting" by Jack Dempsey. He is the one guy who wrote that punchers are made, not born (That I have read untill this moment at least). Now, my personal opinion is that the main factor to decide if you can punch hard or not is pain and damage resistance in the hands, and that's hard to train.
I think its like flowing in jiu jitsu, you get the leverage exactly right and it feels like youre just moving through the air and the technique is effortless. If you time everything exactly right in your kinetic chain is just creates a ton of energy and you hit hard, adding to that your muscle strength
Superb video
Love these short videos! Very informative!
4:25 Drill the technique, you have to have a good technique. You gotta drill the strikes. You have to drill the properly. You have to get the most leverage out of your body as possible.
After that a good way to add more power, more explosivness and more speed is plyometrics.
Add in all the different ways a person can move around style wise and the entire mechanics change
Mr. Firas,
Please read as it has important information.
I am not an expert, but i have develop super strong elbows. I saw a pattern that all heavy strikes had. It is a lot simpler than we think. I was amazed by the simplicity. I thought of it. I would give a big pad to a guy and i would hit with different elbow angles. I would ask the guy to rate the power that he was receiving. Once i found the best angle for the most power, i would change that start speed of the elbow, and i would finish with the most speed. This applies to all strikes. The jab is not as strong, because the start speed of the punch is faster than the finish speed of that same jab. Now the stiff jab, is stronger because the start speed is slower than the finish speed at the end of the punch. Dan henderson used it too and many others. Try to watch a man punch slow. You will understand what i am talking about. We could talk all day about it, but i think this is a real clue to developing real power. Then i guess you would have to train your muscles a specific way to help you increase your power. But i am talking about technique. Also your whole kinetic chain should be relaxed, in order for the 100% of power that you can produce with your body, to be delivered. Please pm me if you have any questions or suggestions, or if you discover more, as i am truly interested in the subject, and your findings on it.
Thank you,
Kyriacos Herakleous
Precision beats power and timing beats speed
What about power and precision
I think working on your counter can make you a "touch of death guy" .
Wouldnt that requires a certain level of speed as well. But I'm not an expert
Accuracy will make up for loss of power
Nop. Accuracy is accuracy. Power is power. Bisping was accurate, Dan Henderson was not. Dan still punched Bisping's soul into oblivion in the first fight.
No. A hard puncher will always be more dangerous.
@@TheClinchMagazine They are danerous indeed. But, accuracy beats power all day. Why? Let me see how you gonna knock my soul into an oblivion when you can not even touch me and i hit you from anywhefe wherever i want. Also, look up at what Miocic did to Ngannou, make him tired and then the power is gone.
@@k2m524 Lack of power will always bother. No matter how much you practice for accuracy, a champion usually is a hard puncher like Tyson, Ali, Duran, Hearn, Roy Jones Jr., Sugar Ray Leonard. etc. Accuracy is an excuse, light punchers come up with to console themselves. I'm not hating on light punchers, in fact I myself think I am a light punchers, because in street fights, my punches don't feel. But I once punched someone in the abdomen, he fell down. Maybe, because I make my hands stiff which causes my punches to be slow.
But my kicks are heavy. I did never practised Tae Kwon Do or any martial arts. But, once I got an opportunity to kick pads. That instructor was impressed by my kicking power.
@@k2m524 please don't bring Miocic. Miocic is not a pure striker at all. He is a decorated wrestler and he used that to tire Ngannou out. In a strict striking match, Miocic may beat Ngannou but the threat of the eminent knockout is always going to be there. Power doesn't guarantee a win but nor does accuracy. Like I said, power is power and accuracy is accuracy.
Oberyn Martell vs Mountain. Oberyn was picking him apart, until he wasn't.
Emanuel Steward took turned a no knockout fighter in the amateurs, Thomas Hearns, and made him into one of the best ko artist in professional boxing history. Steward said he had to show Hearns how to use his long frame to put leverage on his punches.
Could u then explain how machida went from winning decisions to knocking guys out?
At the gym, first day in August, a 5 yr student about 20 yrs old as he was holding the pads, said I had a lot of power (right hand mainly). I mean, I used to pitch baseball 90+ mph in high school so wouldn't surprise me. Haven't been back to the gym though cause I was terribly not conditioned like the rest of the class. Now I am conditioned by training on my own at the track and at home doing drills I learned there and I will return in about a month - having vein surgery on my left leg and going out of down on vacation.
I learned more from comments than the actual video 💪
One of many factors (in addition of muscles and bones of course) is innervation. Some people can recruit almost 100% of their fibers. A specialist of anatomy, conditioning and power lifting is Frederic Delavier. He has written many excellent books,you can pick up some good ideas there,it's one of the best specialist on these topics.
one training could help developing a feel for it would be to hit special pads that can't hurt your hands, but could measure the speed and slow down the hand to protect the body, and then learn to hit it faster and faster with the least amount of force involved, so the exercise would make you find paths, leverages, timing that generate speed with the whole body. I'm sure within months you could reach you previous peak speed, without forcing, then you would increase the intensity and physical training around this new technique. Today most of the fighters know how much effort they put in a punch but don't really know precisely how much power they generate which is why there is so much discrepancies between pros. And also because most of the high level trainers don't really have full comprehension of speed and power
Cus damato, precise emotional deliverance
I think you guys are just so pro you cant get much better. I have small hands and its hard to hold stuff over my head for long, and have knocked out people with head gear. But i also feel like i cant get much better too, but at the same time i dont think i was a killer to start with.
Firas i have I question how to improve your power if you are a hard hitter
Because I am a hard hitter but don,t know how to make my strength better
Any tips?
Firas physical training and plyos guide. I would pay for that a lot!
What is the name of the book he mention at 4:54? I cant understand, english is not my main language... Thanks in advance!
Becoming a supple leopard by Kelly Starrett
It took me about two years to really get a punch after I started boxing. I think a lot is relaxing the antagonists, getting the right coordination etc. After the motorpattern ist there, the power of my punch was dictated by my musclefiber. Which in my case is more medium then fast twitch. There are boxers out there, that definitly hit harder and faster then me. But is moste definitly got knock out power because i invested the time to learn the technique. You can get a more harder hitting boxer, but maybe not the best on the planet if nature didn´t provide you with the right tools.
I am almost a 100% certain people are born such a way. I experience it myself. Never trained but me and my cousin hit so very hard.I think it might even be a neurological thing that has been there since we were born. Forample ali ibn abi talib was gifted with an enormous amount of power in his hands.
i think a BIG component to power is desire to destroy. Like something dark locked in the basement. Emotions release hormones that i think give that extra sauce behind just the mechanics of the movement.
Hi Coach, I have a question unrelated to the video. In a previous video you mentioned that your wife suffered from some form of Arthritis and she fasted to reduce inflammation. Could you please elaborate on the type of fasting she did to reduce inflammation? My mum suffers from it and it would be awesome if I could help her out with something as simple as diet. Thanks.
Seek a professional who specializes on water fasting. I’m from Germany and we have a long history in fasting, especially the Buchinger clinic is very famous for its success. People with arthritis or liver problems visit the clinic regularly, which means ones or twice a year. Fasting is effective, in some cases even very effective that means people need to take less or no medication after the fast. But because the amount of medication changes during and after the fast one must seek an experienced professional. It’s unnecessary dangerous without! Wish you and your mother all the best! Peace and blessings.
Jane Doe is right, as an addition, try keto or even a carnivore diet(carnivore -body has the same reaction as with fasting), whatever feels better. Just remember to drink enough water and get enough salt and once your through the keto-flu, it feels amazing.
Try theracurmin by natural factors. Take a look, id recommend it
@@Phourtwenny
curcumin? food coloring with potential health risk.... no thanks
why supplements anyway? most of them have no further effect than making your pee brown.
@@aimanashole with all respect, there are a few things one should be concerned about what you said. 1. You are giving the advice to try a very restricted diet without knowing the long term effects of it. We dont have enough data to make such a claim. 2. You are suggesting that low carb diet is the "same" as fasting. But following this kind of diets you have to maintain them every single day, while a water fast in generally speaking should just be between 3-10 days a few times a year. So you cant compare a max of 10 day water fast with a 365 day diet, because the effort you have to invest are not the same. Even though your body produces ketones the metabolism of a person with zero calories compared to a person with calories is not the same. plz dont take this as personal attack, thank you. In addition we should be careful with the " do whatever feels better" thinking, becaus some things feel good in the short term but may effect you negative in the long term. procrastination feels good, there for i should procrastinate all the time? this conclusion may be dangerous.
What’s the name of that book and how do you spell it. I look forward to researching it.
Thank you!!! People try to debate me on this all the time, if you could train scary KO power then it wouldn’t be such a rare asset lol
Steffano Fumo
Look up Gene kim
its like with everything. you have a max capacity, and the limits to it are limits your genes determine. Within this interval, you can increase your power. But if you dont have a high max-capacity, you will never punch hard.
Physics , Power = Force x Velocity. Since velocity is proportional to power, its increase will result in the increase of power.
Well think i got the answer to this ive been training and competing about 7 years now all my years ive been not a power puncher i was more of volume guy speed punches high pace , never tired but my punches are decent max hollow style same built ... howw i did the change focusing more on strength you can follow any prgrm as you got to this level 2.5xbw squat/2.75xbw deadlift/2x bw bench /half bw dumbell x5 pull ups 1.5xbw military press- and core your core your abs should be at the highest strength focusing on dragon flags- high weight planks ... heavy kettle bells sit ups .... after that strenght phase always focusing on being explosive sprinting 2 times a week for 10 sec on 1 min rest just be explosive focus on plyometric exercise and med ball throw ,olympic lifts, your cardio will be built in sprints and bag work and sparring dont run for an hour and long distance shit it will inhance your slow twitch muscle fiber and decrease your fast ones - focusing on power shots at the bag -learn to be explosive from your whole body and believe after 2 years max your knock out power , of course this will take away time from you skill training but now after i got here i think its worth it
i think you should do both long distance and sprinting correct me if I'm wrong, and i have a question how important are abs
Adnane lardi It depends cause in martial arts nothing is wrong if it works for you thats good some of the best boxers still run long distance . And abss oh yeaa hit then hard every time they recover .... how many time ?? It deppends cause each person recover deffrent than othrrr and again for abs never do anything more than 15 reps always heavyweight and 15 and below reps
100% truth here
Start with 2lbs dumbell , 60 sec sprint , then drop weight , 25-40 sec sprint
You should read peak by anders ericsson. There's not such a thing as gifted people. They may be people that are better build to perform a certain activity/movement, but they are not "born" with a killer punch.
I agree with you...I have a younger brother who has never practiced any martial arts in his life and he has a cross stronger 4 times than mine,literally touch of death Othewise I have been training mma for almost 3 years now
I often tease him that he should train kickbox/box or mma..he is better athletically built than me(Im that older-smaller bro haha), and he has that abnormally strong right cross
Firas, I can help with this. I have helped MLB hitters achieve significantly more power and consistency. The punch is a swing and the same principles apply to the punch. MMA can learn from other sports. We’ve already seen this. And MMA can certainly learn from baseball in this respect. I am currently trying to speak at MMA gyms to share simple modification to technique that can produce much more power and precision in the punch. I would love to share with you.
Why don't you just type it out here too?
Some have it, some don't.
Hey choch i'm a big fan of yours .. I'm a big fan of mma also ..i want to train jui jitsu under your instruction. I'm from india from a small village i always wanted to train but here i didn't get any scope
What a thumnail
what about anderson silva he didnt seem to punch hard but it seemed like the energy (kinetic chain) flowing throu his body
why is nobody talking about if you are born with timing and anticipation......because besides power, these skills are what cause most clean kos
Firas I hit pretty hard now with both hands, and remember when I started on the bag when I was a teen, I could hit softly with my right hand only, my left hand was useless, but I developed power over time.
Its called Puberty
@@ujsimrananees haha, would it have developed on its own without training just because of puberty ? My left hand literally had no connection to my brain 😄
@@ujsimrananees I can attribute some of the power gained but definitely daily training was number one contributor in my opinion
but the point was not that you can't get stronger. the point was that if you start out as a weaker fighter you won't be able to ever hit like Mike Tyson (at least not with the knowledge people have right now).
@@Luc-1991 yeah, I got the point and I was kindly disagreeing. I have many theories gathered from years of empirical experience, and i have arrived to the conclusion that knocking people out is only partly due to power and the part is marginal. How about you?
Could a avg joe dirty bulk to 250lbs and throw looping bombs to take power from average to consistently get kos? If a guy goes from skinny to looking like butterbean he could probably get kos with overhands hooks uppercuts shovel shots etc we can’t change genetics but we can change caloric intake. If a fighter only cares about increasing power I think he should train like a power lifter and eat enormous high protein meals frequently
From what I heard from some people in the gyms Thomas the Hitman Hearns was not a KO puncher in his armature career but Emanuel Stewart from Kronk gym in Michigan was able to develop Hearns into one of the hardest strikers in the history of boxing. Would this be a example of a striker with no KO’s turning into a KO artist? Im not trying to be wise or anything just curious. When he knocked out Duran to me that looked like a death touch KO. It was also done to Roberto Duran one of the all time greats.
@jonsavate : Yes, Thomas Hearns could be considered such an example...
While there are multiple examples in boxing of people developing KO power, I think the best one would be that of Benny Leonard. Who in his own words started off being called a "feather duster boxer" due to soft punches devoid of power, but Benny Leonard eventually became a respected "power puncher" with 70 KO's on his professional record and is considered by many to be the greatest lightweight boxer of all time.
Another good example would be Jack Dempsey, who once said that he wasn't a naturally born puncher, but developed his power through access to skilled trainers and years of training. If you read his book on boxing you'll find the following quote and chapter heading: *_"Punchers are made; Not Born"_*
Shout out to “Supple Leopard”
So true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi coach, I am designing a boxing rig which allows the fighter to fight in their natural style whilst hitting about 7 different points of contact each mimmicking a punch in boxing. This rig will tell the fighter their punch force and includes form analysis by way of motion tracking and analysis as well. I am very close to producing my hi-feidelity proof of concept. Would something like this actually be used within the boxing world as a training and measurement tool? All data can be logged with time stamps for statistical analysis after the session. Your feedback will be very valuable.
Tyson was born that way.
Love the thumbnail xD
I don`t know if im that type of puncher i haven`t KOed anyone in boxing competitions,only TKO but all of the people that sparred me have said that i have a really strong right straight,like what Coach Zahabi said, only one limb only my right straight or right hook nothing else is special.And many times ive been told or shown i hit harder than guys who are like 45 lbs above me. So yeah i might have a potential for a hard puncher but i don`t know for sure. Im 5`10 and a half and im like 175 pounds .And im writing this just because im interested and i want to find out if im a naturally power puncher not because i want to brag so please don`t attack me in the comments if you don`t have anything useful or nice to say. Oh and also im not that muscular im like athletic type body,something like less muscular conor with shorter hands but im thick boned and have thick wrists and fists for my size
is being a sprinter (having fast twitch muscle fibers) means that i can be a hard hitter ?
The Truth no
not necessarily bcos ur building fast twitch muscle fibers in ur legs and not ur upper body
@@LaasqorayRich strike is 60% legs and back
Not seeing the punch coming make it more effective, and it may lead to a knockout!
Set ups are a big factor.
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What about lifting weights and getting really strong and for example going from 170 to 230 won't that give you the strength to be able to knock someone out?
Bit late, but no gym strength has very little effect on punching power. The only thing that would give you a little more power is the extra bodyweight.
What's the plyometrics book, suppleleperty?
I can say for one..when my sparing partner is holding the thai pads..i can see it in his eyes..."fuck..that's a heavy overhand right elbow".
You can get closer to the ceiling, but you cant move the ceiling
What about steroids make punch harder thing , jonny hendricks and gector lombard before usada time were toch of death persons, but after usada they did not ko any one?????
Can anyone please tell me which book he mentioned please
I increased my punching power you just have to believe also power is speed x mass
I’d say talk to Naudi Aguilar of Funtional patterns about generating power through the oblique slings.
George its a hard hitter?
The secret lies between the legs
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Please tell me the secret🙏
Deepak Rajotia The colour of your briefs
@@number1gstar ...thank you sir
well yeah if you have tree trucks for legs..you have some ko power for sure.
or big bawlz w.e works.
If it can be in one limb its gotta be neurological and not muscle fibers. Being totally loose and suddenly stiff, imo
I don't believe the natural physical strength and speed is what makes a great shot, I think it's more the skills of: stubbornness ,precision , nervous intensity, ability to learn music, intelligence and imagination, taste for natural violence, humility, then if somebody like that has access to great knowledge, he can achieve greatness in some techniques with a short training. Take a very good successful dancer, which happens to really want to learn some techniques, make sure he never fought or trained fighting, and give him the top 3 trainers of the world in boxing and k b or thai b, give him time to understand and adapt to it, within one year he could have several killing blow in his arsenal, he won't be a complete fighter, but now we're talking about speed and power only. Why dancers, they have courage, intensity, precision, music (timing), at a high level most of them have intelligence. They are not afraid of pain, less intensity than fighters but more volume overall, so they know how and agree to push their body close to the breaking point. Of course some people will have naturally better suited muscle fibers and skeleton geometry, of better nerve behavior, optimized for one technique, but the average body when trained physically and in good health has tremendous reserve of accomplishment limited more by the brain/soul controlling it than some slight difference, especially when comparing solely speed and power of one particular move. If I pick only one skill overall it would be potential mental intensity, because it's the most differentiating scale between mortals
Torque in your hips is genetic. Primarily found in people from countries with a heavy influence in rhythm. That's why blacks and Hispanics dominate boxing
@TimoSlav I don't have any scientific papers published on the matter. Nor have I conducted an intricate study. As someone who is a combat sports athlete and a black man. I'm just making a hypothesis, because top level boxers are mostly black or Hispanic. And theirs a correlation between torque and rhythm
I see it all the time in anime
I'm not buying the McGregor touch of death shit. the only one I've seen him knock out clean is a smaller Jose Aldo. and even that didn't come down to power but to his timing. noting against Conor as a fighter tho .
Nate has one of the best chins he dropped him 3 times in 2 rounds
Eddie is a worrior he dropped him 5-6 times in 2 rounds
And he is a featherweight didnt cut weight for 170 and at 155 he wasnt as big as other lightweights
For a feather/leightweigt it doesnt goas any better
Abd he knocked out some one in 4 sec and look whar he did to ivan buchinger broke his jaw with one punch
people get knocked out by running into a stiff jab all the time...where the power is not even that relevant
Well the answer is obviously yes
Tyson was a tactical master not a one punch knockout artist, Deontay Wilder has the death punch.
Isn't a KO more about accuracy? Even a guy without explosive power will KO you if he lands flush on your chin.
@@robloxgod6945 there is video of kid dropping adult by hitting him on chin
You can’t make willie pep have the power of joe Foreman, it’s simply physics
couch check out this thai fighter who teach people how to use there balance to knock people out Kru samart payakaroon
I do firas
I know how to give anyone KO power: get on some GEAR
Zen uh, no
You don’t know the power of modern pharmacology. You can have a test level 400x the level of lebron james. Not saying it will make you the same calibur of athlete but if you train hard with a test that high you WILL hit fucking hard.
@@jamesbond8540 you'll hit *harder* and if you gain a lot of muscle then your punches will weigh more, but if you have slow-twitch muscles and bad leverage in your tendons insertion points then you're not gonna hit as hard as someone who's naturally born with fast-twitch muscles and weighs as much as you do.
STELIAN ROIU FROM IASI A SKINNY MAN MAKING 150 KILOS AT BENCH
Deontay wilder
Naudi Aguilar- Functional patterns
Train boxing and learn how to put your weight behind your punches. It's as easy as that.
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But it's easy to knock someone out. I haven't fault against world class fighters tho I'm sure they take smack waaaay better than the rest. I don't think Conor even has much power but he hits the button perfectly which doesn't require much power to ko someone
it's not only that they can punch better but they can also take punches a lot better.
Luc yeah but my point is you don’t actually need great KO power to KO someone. Sure it helps a lot tho because you don’t even need to hit the target perfectly to get the KO if you have great genetic power. I think many of Tyson’s kos were not particularly clean because he has naturally high power
TheOlzee, I completely agree with that.
Disagree. It's not because of where he's hits them. It's a combination of when he hits them + power. He'd of knocked nate out by your logic because he landed flush on the chin many times. At the same time he didn't land clean at all against Dustin or Eddie but did knock them out.
Everybody in the comments below has punching power or seems to know I to get it hahahaha
Your correct in what your saying however ...No one wants to believe it because they want to think that by added 10kg on their Bench will turn them into Tyson.
Emmanuel steward took Tommy hearns n made hit a touch of death fighter, Hearns had no punch power as an amateur at all
Regular normal person with 5-10 Fight...
He is wrong
There are many fighters that develop it through time he is wrong. Look at fighters who wouldn't knock opponents out then developed it through time training style etc. your not born with anything your bones tendons muscles nervous system is developed through stress and work not through genetics. I am sure mike Tyson couldn't ko anyone in the beginning of his career and neither could conor without hard stress on the body.
Mike Tyson was knocking dudes out when he was 12
That's like asking, "Is it possible to increase my money and knowledge?"
Yass bitch, through good form when training, consistency and proper recovery to hit it again the next day.
Of course, having goals and certain outcomes that wevwant to strive for.