highest psi scores from HW boxers

Ivan Drago averaged 1850 pounds.

 

We have talked about this in the past but it there is a lot of rumour and verry little verification.

Wlad Klitschko was recorded at 1100 PSI and it is cited on the Klitschko website.

Ring Magazine conducted a test where Michael Spinks came in at 750 PSI.

There are stories of a test where Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffries and Sam McVea went head to head and Sam McVea came out as the hardest hitter at 1300 PSI. I have never been able to confirm this however.

Rocky Marciano's power was tested at the US army testing centre but it was measured in kinetic energy rather than pressure. It came out at 1000 foot pounds. That is more energy than a 44 magnum slug and enough force to move half a ton one foot!

There are other stories, again unsubstantiated.

 

I don't think Tyson ever did a PSI test.

 

I guess Quinton "Rampage" Jackson from the UFC is a harder hitter than most HW boxers if these scores are accurate. According to Fight Science, he scored at 1800 PSI. Just throwing it out there.

 

How could that be true?

Had Foreman, Tyson, Shavers or even Lewis, Bowe, or Bruno landed on Griffin only once, he would have been out cold. Rampage landed several flush right and still lost the fight. Hard for me to believe that he hits harder than Heavyweights.

 

I'm just stating the facts. Make of them what you will.

Rampage looked very sluggish in that fight BTW.

 

That show sucked. I wouldn't trust their information.

 

I don't trust those numbers at all. One day a boxer may score a lot higher than the other; hell, it varies from punch to punch even. Did they use the same size gloves? The same surface shape? The same weight? Did they use the same equipement and had advanced computers to measure Fitzsimmons' PSI? Does punching a machine equal punching a boxer who uses defence, footwork and has the ability take your head off with a counter punch? Do these numbers grow 10% every time they're passed on, just like bench press figures and dick size?

Did anyone see the recent punch-machine at a British TV show where a soccer player punched harder than Evander Holyfield? Goes to show you how little those things say.

There was an other show on National Geographic or Discovery Channel, where they compared the power (i don't remember in what units) of a single punch from fighters of different fighting disciplines. When they were explaining how power from the punch doesn't come from the biceps asif they'd trasmutated something into gold, i became skeptic at how much they knew about boxing and the various sports. Anyway, i think Bas Rutten for the MMA department came out on top... however, the "top" boxer that they used was some local journeyman with 5 pro fights who hadn't fought in 3 years.



I think they serve a great purpose for the simple mind and Rocky IV illustrates that; but other than that, it's pretty much useless information unless your name is Bert Sugar and you want an interesting but bogus story to tell.


"The energy of a bullet!" sounds sensational, but if you consider that a bullet weighs only a couple of hundred grams, it becomes a lot less impressive. An equivalent statement would be "It had the energy of a truck..... doing 0.5 mph".

 

Yeah the show was garbage. They had Byrd (of all people to choose to represent boxing for punching power) throw a punch that didn't everything on it, and then Rampage threw a right hand which wouldn't land on Charlie Zelenoff it was so wide and useless

 

"The energy of a bullet!" sounds sensational, but if you consider that a bullet weighs only a couple of hundred grams, it becomes a lot less impressive. An equivalent statement would be "It had the energy of a truck..... doing 0.5 mph".[/quote]

Ol' Mo, as in momentum.....mass times velocity.

We have an Air Conditioning Company in Dallas by the name of Trane.

Their business slogan is "You can't stop a Trane".

So at a minor league hockeygame, they put some big truck driver type on skates and someone pushed a 5 "ton" AC unit across the ice and told the truckdriver to stop it and he could win $1000.

The truckdriver got down in a football lineman position, but when he
"uncoiled" on the moving AC unit he slipped and it hit him in the
face and knocked him out cold.

They brought the Zamboni machine in and carted the unconcious truck driver off the ice.

"Mo" wins as usual.