Here is a photo of Monster Naoya Inoue’s sparring, which discloses the secret of Inoue’s tremendous power punching – his back muscles. Inoue will be in the ring in a few hours.
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Top three pound for pound. Superb boxer fighter with great timing and power
Joe, power comes from the bottom. It’s exerted from the ground up with that being said, real Power is something you are born with. Tim Bradley and Steve Cunningham physically look strong but their power is not all that “tremendous.”
Punching power is not totally dependent on just back muscularity. In fact, your whole body in stance, movement, and timing makes up the development of punching power. Muscle definition may help in some cases as demonstrated by development, but that can be simply an illusion in appearance over performance. On a side note, it appears the photograph was taken by a cell phone or such device and then enhanced/zoomed in per say for this article. Would be more beneficial to see HD video of punching the mitts to complement this fighter’s physique. My 2 cents…..
Inoue, even when he was younger without as much muscle, he had power, speed, went body and head, saw some of his highlights just now. Ricardo Lopez was a 90s fighter at 108 he knew how to set up the KOs too, also Michael Carbajal.
Guys like Donaire, sometimes they just go for the 1 punch KO with a body shot, and most fighters with halfway decent power can get the body shot KOs. Mike McCallum wasn’t a big head KO puncher, but he could take it all out of you with body shots, he could KO you to the body. Khaosai Galaxy from the 80s was another big body shot puncher, and his twin brother, maybe wasn’t quite as big of a puncher, but he won a title at 118. Luisito Espinosa KO’d him with a delayed reaction 1st round KO. It was a left to the body, followed by a left to the head, then Espinosa went to the ropes, and landed 2 more quick left hooks to the head, and it took Khaokor Galaxy 8 seconds to fall out of nowhere from the delayed reaction of it.
Espinosa from the Philippines, another big puncher, but he wasn’t built up with muscle that much. Some skinny dudes can punch really hard, and it’s not expected.
i thought power was generated from strong legs