[Da Chin Checka]

Now this is a really interesting topic. For one guys like Shavers and Foreman had power, real power. Ernie Shavers made fighters urinate blood from his body shots, Foreman gave plenty of fighters concussions. So it don't matter what element causes the most damage as long as power is properly apply behind the punch. What made Tyson's punches look more vicious was:

Number One:

Speed...Speed adds to the power, If a train is coming at you while you are in a car and the train slows down but still hits your car you will be crush. If a train is coming at full speed towards you while you are in the same car than you and the car will be shatter to pieces. Foreman and Shavers apply mass behind their punches with power, Tyson apply mass with power from the legs plus speed.

Number Two:

Snapping the punches. When I am in the boxing gym one of the biggest mistakes people do when they first work on a bag is they just swing at the bag without snapping their punches. Tyson was great at snapping his power along with adding speed behind them. Snapping a punch creates that whipping like effect on the target which causes more damage than if you just keep going thru with the punch because by the time you hit the target you punch loses velocity and the power is not there no more. It just turns into a waste of motion. That is why I seen big guys punch someone and they look like they punch like a girl.



As for the secret as to why smaller fighter have the viciousness of hitting so hard. It's because of strong tendons. Believe it or not you can be a skinny wimpy looking guy but if you have strong tendons you can do damage with your fist. Many are born with it, others build it thru isometric exercises. These type of people are called ISO-Freaks.

Manny Pacquiao, Felix Trinidad, Julian Jackson, Tonny Hearns, Bob Foster, Bruce Lee Marvin Hagler, Kosta T. are all ISO Freaks because they have such strong tendons. Strong tendons helps in creating motion behind a punch which could hit hard. That is why you may see a big muscle bound guy who punches like a girl, because he has weak tendons and not enough flexibility to create a full motion in his punch. Even if he has strong tendons, adding too much muscles mass will take away the ability of throwing a fully extended punch with a snapping motion which will take away its power.

Guys like Shavers, Rocky Marciano, George Foreman and Mike Tyson all had really strong tendons and are also ISO-Freaks. That is why they were born with that raw punching power.