The one and only Mike Tyson shared this article and video on his page. Watch the best knockouts video included and read up. Mike’s punching power was stunning.
Note how he moves his entire torso in the punch, especially on his left and right cross….he moves like an action figure fixed in one pose: entire torso twisting as the cross comes forward while the entire other side twists back the opposite direction – almost frozen, no wasted energy.
This is one way to increase power dramatically. Tyson was very, very strong….but any city in the world in a major lifting gym or competitive college team has people as strong as Tyson was in his prime. As with all fighters, his power came from a combination of that strength with superior, in his case perfect, technique. The torque from the full body twist in his crosses uses all his muscles from BOTH arms, all through the back, glutes and down the legs into the feet. More importantly, he’s effectively using all his weight as a giant, finely-tuned instrument of delivering all that body weight and body muscle into the power of the punch.
Think of it this way: a normal strong guy maybe can lift 100 pounds with one arm — that’s pretty damn strong. His arm itself might weigh 20 pounds ….that’s a damn big arm. When you get hit by Tyson are you getting hit with a 20 pound weight with the muscle to lift 100 pounds? No. You wish. When you get his by a master you are getting hit with a 20 pound arm with 100 pounds of strength ATTACHED to a fine tuned body with 80 other muscles from the neck to opposite arm, to the back, butt, thighs, calves and feet…all together capable of lifting 1000+ pounds (Tyson could no doubt leg press 300+ and bench press a lot) ….so 1000+ pounds of muscle strength AND the speed of a car AND that little extra 1-3 inches a great puncher or kicker pushes forward in the last instant ….adding the full force of their body weight to the strike. Watch a master Muay Thai kicker — in the last instant on a perfect kick they lift their foot and spring the ENTIRE body forward an inch or two ….that last bit creates devastation. Same thing for Tyson…watch in slow motion…in the last instant his ENTIRE body moves forward just a tiny bit…again like an action figure.
This is why, on some of these hits you can see Tyson’s world-class opponents literally stunned at his power. At the halfway mark one huge opponent falls into the ropes with a look on his face like “What the hell just hit me?” That’s mastery. Tyson is one of the very top all time greats.
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