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diablo · 10-12-2003, 03:35 PM

I got in a conversation about the new game with a friend about punching power back in the 1950's (when I first started watching fights on television) and now. He wondered whether fights are stopped more quickly now because "chemical enhancement" of muscles (steroids, other hormones) has made serious injury more possible.

My first reaction was to say I didn't think so. I remember some pretty devastating punchers from the 50's (Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, e.g.) who weren't obviously musclemen, and I said that I thought punching power/effectiveness had a lot more to do with technique (skill, reflexes, getting the weight behind the punch etc.) than with sheer muscle power.

Anybody else have any ideas? Are today's fighters heavier punchers than those in the 50's? Does artificial enhancement make a difference?

Diablo

10-12-2003, 03:35 PM	#1
diablo Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: El Paso, TX Posts: 43	Punching power then and now I got in a conversation about the new game with a friend about punching power back in the 1950's (when I first started watching fights on television) and now. He wondered whether fights are stopped more quickly now because "chemical enhancement" of muscles (steroids, other hormones) has made serious injury more possible. My first reaction was to say I didn't think so. I remember some pretty devastating punchers from the 50's (Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, e.g.) who weren't obviously musclemen, and I said that I thought punching power/effectiveness had a lot more to do with technique (skill, reflexes, getting the weight behind the punch etc.) than with sheer muscle power. Anybody else have any ideas? Are today's fighters heavier punchers than those in the 50's? Does artificial enhancement make a difference? Diablo