Which sports/professions could produce the best punchers

Would a baseball pitcher be a heavy puncher? QB? Again not BOXER... stritcly one punch power.

 

Basketball because Windmill

 

Wilder made a case for basketball players more than anyone ever

 

Brock Purdy would surely have a right hand that puts Sonny Liston's to shame.

 

Also I feel like construction workers would have better chins than interior designers

 

I don't know the answer to the question, but I do know that between pitchers and QBs, a pitcher's delivery is more conducive for generating punching power than a QB's. Don't get me wrong, QBs have a harder, more dangerous, more high-pressure job, but a pitchers' technique imo would be easier to translate into training them to be a power puncher.

 

Randy Johnson at 6'10 200lbs and throwing 100 mph+ would def punch hard

 

Agreed

 

There's never been a 6'10 successful heavyweight, and Randy Johnson wouldn't have been the first.

Nolan Ryan on the other hand, I think he could have been a decent boxer. He certainly had the arm power and mean streak in him. Same with Bob Gibson.

 

I'm strictly talking about one punch power not a boxing profession

 

Strictly for punching power, if we nominate any QB in history, I'd probably say Terry Bradshaw. Huge arm, athletic, and had that freakish country boy strength. Bradshaw also had a lighting quick release, so the power plus velocity... maybe that translates to punching power.

 

Hockey players would be all toughness and little else see Chuck Wepner

 

Bowling is not a sport. It's an activity to get away from your wife

 

I don't think there is one as it's a niche ability within a niche sport. Obviously one would expect guys working in physically demanding jobs would hit harder on average than ones pushing pencils but it doesn't really mean the work is what created it.

If it's a profession that could produce the best ones i would think something like sports medicine. Maybe if enough study was done there could be a way to train individuals to increase punching power with very direct technique and applied practice/workout. I suspect though it has similarity to something like sprinting. Whatever is involved in the ability like muscle fiber/bone density/etc. comes down overwhelmingly to genetics.

 

I like you better when you drink and not read books

 

There ain't shit to do in Canada but read and get mauled by grizzlies.

 

I've found my own experience with combat sports, mostly boxing and kickboxing, is that the ability to rotate the hips properly translates great to driving in golf and shooting in hockey.

Dunno if it'd translate back the other way, but I think it's possible.

 

I think in every major sports hip rotation is important for power. In world football to kick a ball at max power, in American football for a QB to throw the ball properly, and also it's critical in tennis, baseball, and hockey. Hip rotation is crucial in all of em.

It's MOST important in our sport though, given that what's at stake is your life.

 

Golfers. Great upper body rotational technique and pivot, tremendous sense of distance at all ranges, patient, don't rush into things.....give them good training and they'll be mastering 1 punch power in no time.

Carl Weathers had a million dollar body, played pro football....couldn't hit the heavy bag for SHIT.

 

Facts

On that note, living in grizzly bear country is basically living amongst potential death any given day 24/7.

Staying home and reading is the only choice.

 

You could stay home and watch Joe Rogan talk about bears, thus removing all doubt.

 

It's one of the body's main ways of generating power, so it makes sense. It's a pretty crucial part of training like an athlete imo.

Grappling arts need strong rotation too. Well, at least Judo and Jiu Jitzsu do, but I'm sure wrestlers are better off with it than without it too.

 

This guy will knock you on your ass!!

 

If I get knocked on my ass I get knocked on my ass.

 

I wish Weathers had become a bigger action star. He had the type of charisma that not many of them have.

For instance, The Rock. Plenty of charisma as a wrestler, zero fucking charisma as an actor.

Weathers had acting charisma in spades.

 

That moustache. Held him back.

The Rock sux.

 

Arnold was a much much better actor than the rock. Arnold came off like human and a badass.... with the rock i feel like im watching a stack of cinderblocks deliver cheesy monotone lines...

 

He's also a DICK

 

No wonder Neil likes him