The old saying goes that a good boxer should be a big puncher in most cases in the sweet science, mostly, but not always it should be said.
Professional boxing is different to amateur boxing of course.
It is the highest level of the sport and one punch can be lights out in any weight division really if it lands and connects.
Particularly the heavyweight division where one single hard punch can end a fight in the blink of an eye.
Professional boxing is the highest level of the sweet science and world championship boxing is the pinnacle of it.
It is there where boxing skill and ability counts more than anywhere, and when big punchers come along, one thing is consistent we have noticed.
A Boxer Beats A Puncher
What you will see a lot of times is that they build up records with loads of knockouts in the early days of their careers but once they reach that world title level the power they relied on doesn’t always work.
Artur Beterbiev was knocking everyone out until he met Dmitry Bivol in recent times in the light-heavyweight division.
That is just one example but there’s many cases of this over the years.
Ricky Hatton in the UK relied on his body punches and power for years until he started fighting more of the top tier fighters at world title level, namely Floyd Meyweather and Manny Pacquiao.
Who are the best boxers ever? Sugar Ray Robinson for us is the number one.
He could box and punch though, he could really punch and knock people out. But at his core, the man was a boxing genius.
Some sayings in boxing are aways true and Ray Robinson for us was both a boxer and a puncher, but a genius boxer at his core.
