Yes, it is possible, but on the average, heavyweights tend to hit harder than middleweights
Oh yes. remember Michael Moorer? When he started out as a middleweight, he was knocking out his foes like they were nothing. Then he moved up to the light heavyweights and he was doing the same thing to his foes there. It was discovered that Moorer had the frame and bone structure, especially in his hands and fists of a heavyweight encased in a body that was then still at home in the middleweights and the light heavyweights. When Moorer got older and physically mature, he proved to be a heavyweight indeed and not just an ordinary heavyweight mind you particularly when he first fought and beat Evander Holyfield.
The same may be true of Manny Pacquiao who at featherweights, hit like a lightweight or even a junior welterweight and at lightweights, was as strong anf hit like a welterweight or even a jnuor middleweight.
Or course. Tommy the Hitman Hearns started off at welterweight and fought as far as cruiserweight. Even then he was knocking guys out. Roberto Duran knocked Iran Barkley down hard at middleweight. Chavez started at 130 and KOed Taylor at 140. But some guys don't carry power all the way. The ghost Guerrero was a big puncher at 126 and now he isn't that strong at welterweight.
Middleweight Joe Choynski weighed never more than around 170 pounds and fought against the most famous heavyweights of his time. He fought against Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin, Joe Walcott and Jack Johnson. And they all said that Choynski hit them the hardest of all and they fought each other. All who fought both said that he hit harder than 210 pounds Jim Jeffries. And Jim Jeffries himself, who had the chin that even a sledge hammer couldn't destroy, said that Choynski hit him the hardest and he fought also 200 pounds Tom Sharkey. Jack Johnson said that he hit him so hard in 3 rounds that he suffered even pain after the fight and said that he hit twice as hard as Jim Jeffries did. That easily makes Choynski to the hardest hitter of his time and he was only a middleweight. Plus he hit harder than all heavyweights of his time and some of them weighed already around 200 pounds.
one good example, pacquiao's punch can ko a 140 pounder.... thats when he was a featherweight....
even now, hes beating elite welters, but he never is a natural 147....
he fights at 142-144, his walk around weight, same weight the night when he ko hatton at jr.welter....you can imagine how devastating his power can be at 135 or 140....
possible to pacquiao, same to a MW having the power of a HW...
only such power are inborn....I guess, you can say, not all are born equal..lol
of course, the prince could punch more heavy than tyson
In boxing,is it possible for a super middleweight to punch with the strength of a heavyweight?
