paul_oshea
11/12/2007, 8:16 PM
Ruben Olivares - Bantamweight
Ricardo Lopez - Strawweight, Light-Flyweight
Naseem Hamed - Featherweight
Carlos Zarate - Bantamweight
Roberto Duran - Lightweight (and Welter, Light-middle, Middleweight)
Wilfredo Gomez - Superbantamweight, Lightweight, Light-welterweight
among many others, have all been punchers of devastating power, all capable of genuine one-punch knockouts.
Obviously they don't hit as hard as a heavyweight, or even a welterweight, but when you consider the power of their punches compared to their weight, and the weight of the person they're punching, the results are often more spectacular than heavier weights.
Duran was one of those whose power was most evident at his lighter weight, in his case Lightweight, and when he moved up to welter and light-middle, finally middle, his power wasn't as dominant as it had been at lightweight.
Gomez was unbeatable at super-bantam, but got hammered initially when he stepped up to featherweight (admittedly that was because he fought Salvador Sanchez).
Mayweather would be no exception to this trend. I'm not saying he'd be beaten, because I think he wouldn't, but it would be a forced, not a natural, step up in weight, and he'd be in with boxers whose power he couldn't match.
Mayweather would be no exception to this trend.
I missed this earlier, see the thing is though this is the same for hatton, there were two different weights here really light middleweight and light welterweight fighting ( in their natural weights ), thats a sizeable difference particularly in terms of punching power and it looked the case for most of the fight on saturday, even when hatton got punches in the impact wasnt the same as it normally was when hatton was fighting at his more natural weight. So maybe the difference in told in the end....it certainly added to it.
Ricardo Lopez - Strawweight, Light-Flyweight
Naseem Hamed - Featherweight
Carlos Zarate - Bantamweight
Roberto Duran - Lightweight (and Welter, Light-middle, Middleweight)
Wilfredo Gomez - Superbantamweight, Lightweight, Light-welterweight
among many others, have all been punchers of devastating power, all capable of genuine one-punch knockouts.
Obviously they don't hit as hard as a heavyweight, or even a welterweight, but when you consider the power of their punches compared to their weight, and the weight of the person they're punching, the results are often more spectacular than heavier weights.
Duran was one of those whose power was most evident at his lighter weight, in his case Lightweight, and when he moved up to welter and light-middle, finally middle, his power wasn't as dominant as it had been at lightweight.
Gomez was unbeatable at super-bantam, but got hammered initially when he stepped up to featherweight (admittedly that was because he fought Salvador Sanchez).
Mayweather would be no exception to this trend. I'm not saying he'd be beaten, because I think he wouldn't, but it would be a forced, not a natural, step up in weight, and he'd be in with boxers whose power he couldn't match.
Mayweather would be no exception to this trend.
I missed this earlier, see the thing is though this is the same for hatton, there were two different weights here really light middleweight and light welterweight fighting ( in their natural weights ), thats a sizeable difference particularly in terms of punching power and it looked the case for most of the fight on saturday, even when hatton got punches in the impact wasnt the same as it normally was when hatton was fighting at his more natural weight. So maybe the difference in told in the end....it certainly added to it.