What type of punch is powerful?

Answer 1

The uppercut; the angle, number of muscles involved, in addition to the fact that the arm naturally moves in that arch, makes the punch incredibly powerful. In the 1890's, allegedly many Irish bare knuckle boxers had perfected the uppercut to such an extent, they could take even larger men off their feet with it. Although 1890's bare knuckle boxing, and modern boxing, all have the same names for the punches, the way said punches are executed is TOTALLY different. Modern boxing emphasizes speed, as competition is gloved, its about scoring points and landing leather. Because in a bare knuckle fight, the situation is much more dangerous, you have to "set yourself," additionally, you can not throw punches carelessly. From the time of ancient Greece until it was revived in England, Boxing was a stiff, defensive competition, reason for that being, again, an ungloved fist can do a lot of damage. I'm sure you saw the movie "Snatch," in which actor Brad Pitt played a bare knuckle brawler; what the movie said was true you know, a gloved pro boxer, would be no match for a bare knuckle fighter, because the bones of their face is accostumed to taking bare bones blows, when their faces heal, the bones beneath come back even tougher. In other words that gloved pro boxer character could have punched Pitt's character until hell froze over, he wasn't gonna hurt him. Given that bare knuckle boxing is almost a totally different game, the uppercut in old time English boxing, is done with more of the body's weight behind it. As to the method on how to do it, sorry; this is all I know. You'll have to track down bare knuckle brawling sources yourself.