Gennady Golovkin vs. Kell Brook

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I agree that Floyd is great and that his lack of power was made up for by his various other skills. Maybe I was just confused by your comment that Floyd is good at everything. I mean, you just admitted that most of his opponents had more power than him right?

I'm not sure that things are as cut and dried as that.

Boxers like Floyd, who are geared up and balanced to avoid shots and counterpunch are not set up to throw power punches. Much of their weight is 'high up' (ie they are not standing with a low centre of gravity, which generates extra power).

I would argue that this is more a function of their style than their natural power. If GGG had a fighting stance like Floyd's he would avoid many more punches but he would hit with less power. If Paulie Malignaggi squared up more like GGG he would hit with a lot more power but would sacrifice some mobility and speed.

As an amateur, GGG was a slick counterpuncher, and if you see any of his fights his entire set up, stance and weight distribution was different. Funnily enough, so was Tommy Hearns ..... The way he stood was completely different when he was a hit and run amateur. Fighting him then was like fighting a COMPLETELY different guy (something that a few opponents did say)

Many people on other threads have questioned whether Ray Leonard could punch or not. Some say not, some say he was devastating.

If you watch the first Hearns fight, when he did change from a boxer to a puncher, you will see that his entire fighting stance changed accordingly based on the tactics he was going to use. For most of the fight he was balanced on both feet, high centre of gravity etc. He morphed into a front foot, low centre of gravity, stalking puncher later in the fight.

There are probably two points I'm trying to make here;

1. Any moderately successful professional boxer can punch very hard when they want to.

2. You can predict the fight strategy and tactics of any fighter based on their fighting stance.