Who's scared of Monsters?

[ICB]

I guess everybody who's ever boxed has been told that if you don't keep your hands up you'll get knocked out someday. With novices, this might still be freshly ringing in their ears. However if you do enter the ring with a man who has exceptional punching power, how much can the hands truely help?

Movement is obviously one key, a man cannot hurt you if he cannot connect, but some might say that it's only a matter of time before you get caught or that it is harder to fight when simply trying to stay away.

In my limited expierience sticking close even clinching and holding is a good idea if you can fight on the inside, but a problems arises against a good inside banger.

So what do you guys think
I'd especially like some retorts from trainers as this is a subject everybody may need at some point.

I've sparred with a few big punchers and i can tell you even when you block there punches you can feel the force of it, even when i have done the shoulder roll they hit me so hard on the arms and shoulders that i wish they would just hit me on the face rather than the arms

I tend to use movement against punchers and i keep the jab stuck out there to keep them off balance and to make them think twice about throwing there big bombs, one thing i am good at it is timing punchers coming in i take a little step back when they throw there big punches then counter with good shots, and when they do get close i always tie them up on the inside so they cannot work on the inside plus it frustrates them, which is a good thing because then they get more wild and sloppy with there punches leaving you more countering opportunities. The punchers i have sparred with i tend to notice they are mostly 1 dimensional and just rely on there power, i can normally figure out punchers in quick time, but maybe i've just been lucky.