Quote Originally Posted by Brockton Bomber
The only story I ever heard about a great heavyweight's punching power being measured goes something like this...

A couple of years after he retired, Marciano was making some kind of a appearance at an army base. One of the officers asked him if he wanted to know how hard he hit. Intrigued, Marciano said "sure".

They had an army boxing team on base, with some pretty serious amatuers. They had attached a pad to a ballistic dynamometer, which a fighter could hit and it would measure the PSI at impact.

A ballistic dynamometer is a machine used to see the power generated by small artillery shells, so you can see why they would have one at an army base.

All the army boxers big hits were written on a blackboard near the BD. One of the guys had apparently just broken 600 pounds, which they thought was big shit.

They taped the Rock up, slid on a glove, and after a couple of practice swings, Rocky registered 973 pounds. This was at 190 pounds, and a couple of years retired.
CC interesting stuff. Imagine if every pro boxer had to be measured and it was included in the pre-fight stats. I think that would be great.