Any boxers in the house? What's the hardest punch in boxing?

[biteme]

Is it the overhand right? the left hook? The short uppercut? I'm guessing the short uppercut because more power is generated at a shorter distance and you can get your whole body into that punch.

 

[canadianhitman]

The hardest punch is always the one you didn't see coming.

 

[canadianhitman]

From a biomechanical standpoint, I'm guessing it's the overhand right due to the amount of extension, allowing more potential sequential summation of force.

 

[Maverick]

i would say a body punch is the (left hook) hardest punch in boxing (and most deadly)

 

[biteme]

Boxing experts and those of his era, say that Rocky Marciano was the hardest puncher in boxing. His punches were short and in close. Actually the shorter a punch travels, the more power. So the long overhand right is not as powerful as the shorter punches thrown with bodyweight and torque.

 

[biteme]

Ring magazing ranks the 3 hardest punchers in history as Marciano, Joe Louis, and Jack Dempsey. I would have thought Big George would have been in the top 3. But that's their ranking. Size only matters up to a certain point.

 

[mountain muscle]

A close hook to the body near the kidneys does the most damage I would say, and hurts like bloody hell.

 

[slickdadd]

I'm going to have to put in one vote for the limp wristed arm flail. It's lethal guys.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

id say the overhand right because when your bones line up at full extension, you deliver not only the force behind the muscles of your torso/upper body but any body momentum/leg force/gravity as you drop

 

[jerseyart]

I boxed for 7 years and have no idea. All I know is whenever someone hit me hard enough to get that electrical buzz going through my brain, it was always a hook.

That said, its more important where you connect on a persons body