Chepppaaa wrote:you have a degree, great. still you are wrong. if strength was that important, than strong man contest winnner or body builders would have a the biggest punch. just makes no sense.
mass, basicly weight in combination ith speed brings power. that is alo the reason why the higher you go up in weight, the harder they punch. thurman punches harder than uchiyama, ggg punches harder than thurman, kovalev punches harder than ggg, wilder punches harder than kovalev.
Let me explain...
When I say maximum strength it does not mean what YOU are thinking in that you have to do a lot of strength work to gain a power punch. We'll call it maximum EFFORT for now but I'll explain why I used the word strength later (even though maximum effort could be used to define strength)..
Your formula for punching power mass x speed applies more towards machine than human performance. A wrecking ball is a great mass, when swung with momentum and speed it becomes powerful and that's an example of how your formula works. Now when we look at what we are discussing which is ones power punch and apply your formula, it's not accurate.
Any movement your body makes requires muscles; lifting a finger, looking left or right, jumping, throwing, even the beating of your heart uses muscles (involuntary). Our muscles also protect us to an extent. Without muscles we are simply a mass that doesn't move at all.
Should I work on my strength to improve my power punch? No, it helps to do strength work but for power it's different. Strength athletes and body builders train in exercises based on movement patterns that concentriclly and eccentrically contract the muscles. Bodybuilders don't really do any power work, probably the odd power clean but they don't do the explosive workouts that someone like Anthony Joshua does. HEY! What better example then Anthony Joshua (who looks like a bodybuilder), he does strength work, plyometrics and some other explosive stuff, check it out on YouTube. Anyway I know a lot of people who are powerful punchers, sprinters that CANT lift heavy weights and I know a boxer who is built and squats heavy and bench presses heavy and has boxed for years but doesn't have a powerful snappy cross.
When we throw a cross for example we use muscles in our legs, core (twist pattern) and upper body right through to the upper extremities. I can go on with the physiological but primarily it narrows down to neutrons and muscles. In our infancy we are weak, for most of us, as we grow our body develops and our bones and muscles get stronger. What I'm trying to say is muscles need strength to move, we need muscles to throw a punch and when we punch our hardest we combine maximum strength and maximum speed to create power!
Thank you.
Perez and Takam did it much better 
