Punching Power

In any type of full contact fighting, the knockout is what excites fighters and fans the most. One of the greatest knockout boxers in history was Rocky Marciano. The Ring magazine (September 1997) said of Marciano,,"Heenever sought refuge in a clinch, never tired, and couldn't be hurt....He was an unstoppable force, breaking bodies and spirits. It was a hellish experience to fight him...Like Dempsey and Louis, he was able to get his whole body into a punch."never sought refuge in a clinch, never tired, and couldn't be hurt....He was an unstoppable force, breaking bodies and spirits. It was a hellish experience to fight him...Like Dempsey and Louis, he was able to get his whole body into a punch."

In 1963, the U.S. Testing Company was asked to measure the power of Rocky's punch. It found that Marciano's knockout punch packed more explosive energy than an armor-piercing bullet and represented as much energy as would be required to spot lift 1000 pounds one foot off the ground. Always ready to take two or three punches to land one, Marciano beat down the guards of his opponents, and then, with the shortest arms in the history of the heavyweight division, he hammered them into submission.