[Roe]

By Kevin Davis

A member of Team Paris was kind enough to give me his thoughts on the upcoming Garcia/Judah contest and his thoughts on the Vernon Paris vs Danny Garcia is sparring, while I was in Detroit. As I am sitting by waiting for the boxing fights t continue, I see a gentleman representing Team Paris, so I asked him the question of the skill of Danny Garcia,

He stated "I've seen him, he's solid, but i don't think he's the destroyer they make him out to be, he don't have no real knockout power to me. He got good timing, that's it, how many times he dropped guys and they get right up. Morales was getting up before his corner just stopped the fight." Then we spoke on the sparring session he had with Danny Garcia, "Man that's his daddy just selling the fight, he knows that's a damn lie, he apologized to Vernon for that b*******, how Vernon ain't tough, the man been stabbed up, shot up, still got a bullet in his back...and you try to make him sound like a b****. That ain't cool." I was just as shocked to hear all of this myself in the masonic temple.

Source: http://www.boxingsocialist.com/profiles/blogs/danny-garcia-doesn-t-have-real-knockout-power-to-me

I guess we already knew this really with Garcia overall being a solid fighter but not exactly a beast of a puncher or a knockout machine but the way he finished both Khan and Morales in his last two fights suggests to me that his power's definitely got to be respected now.

 

[adamcanavan]

i think he definitely is with that left hook, maybe not with his other punches. i do think that garcia however will get beaten soon, he seems quite slow and if it wasnt for khans chin he would have been a nightmare opponent for garcia.

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

He has one punch knock out power. That's all there is to it really. Morales was not getting up. Danny fucked him up big time with that hook. He has good timing and knock out power.

 

[Earl-Hickey]

He's got decent power against very low punch resistance opponents

Right now tthat's all we can say for sure

Prescott fucked khan up a lot worse with two punches than garcia did with about 30 so I'm not raving

 

[BoxingAnalyst]

Solid power, nothing more.

His power gets overrated for knocking out a glass chinned Khan and beating up an old blown up Featherweight.

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

Who hits harder: Garcia or Maidana?

 

[BoxingAnalyst]

Who hits harder: Garcia or Maidana?

Maidana, definitely.

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

Maidana, definitely.

Yet Garcia put Khan away.

 

[BoxingAnalyst]

Yet Garcia put Khan away.

Khan walked onto that, Maidana would have put him in a coma if he timed a punch like that.

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

Khan walked onto that, Maidana would have put him in a coma if he timed a punch like that.

Perhaps. Maidana's punching power is massively over rated IMO, I think Garcia is a big puncher.

 

[BoxingAnalyst]

Perhaps. Maidana's punching power is massively over rated IMO, I think Garcia is a big puncher.

Yeah it does get overrated but he's still a banger.

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

Yeah it does get overrated but he's still a banger.

As is Garcia. Maidana went the distance with Khan and Morales, Garcia KO'd them both.

 

[faz]

As is Garcia. Maidana went the distance with Khan and Morales, Garcia KO'd them both.

I see your point, but that might also have something to do with Garcia having superior boxing skills and timing to land those shots - rather than simply being a bigger puncher?

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

I see your point, but that might also have something to do with Garcia having superior boxing skills and timing to land those shots - rather than simply being a bigger puncher?

Honestly, I think that these skills like timing really equate to being a puncher and you HAVE to take them into consideration. If you can 1 punch knock guys out at a higher level than somebody else because you have the ability to land the shots, you're a bigger puncher.

 

[Earl-Hickey]

Maidana hits harder than garcia, end of story

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

Yeah, he really proved that against morales and khan.

 

[Earl-Hickey]

Yeah, he really proved that against morales and khan.

It doesn't work like that.

Make a poll if you want.

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

It doesn't work like that.

Make a poll if you want.

He his Morales clean several times and still had a tough as fuck fight, Garcia sparked him. Maybe Maidana has more brute strength, but Garcia is a better knock out puncher as he is able to deliver the bomb with accuracy.

 

[sim_reiss]

Saying who hits harder on the basis of their respective performances against Khan/Morales ain't my cup of tea.

Khan went into the Maidana fight where the talk was as soon as Maidana landed he would be KOd, meaning Khan was cautious and as focussed as he'd arguably ever been

Against Garcia he was promising to knock him out and sparring footage showed he wasn't overly concerned with being caught himself.

 

[w;dkm ckeqfjq c]

Saying who hits harder on the basis of their respective performances against Khan/Morales ain't my cup of tea.

Khan went into the Maidana fight where the talk was as soon as Maidana landed he would be KOd, meaning Khan was cautious and as focussed as he'd arguably ever been

Against Garcia he was promising to knock him out and sparring footage showed he wasn't overly concerned with being caught himself.

Both guys hit Khan flush with several huge punches. Maidana beat the fuck out of him for a few rounds but couldn't put him down. Garcia dropped him three times and probably took a few years off his life. Maidana landed 175 clean power punches on Morales, unable to budge him and as a result was dragged into a war that he arguable lost. Garcia dominated him first time around and dropped him hard and then had a KO of the year candidate for the rematch. Both men have one punch KO power, Garcia can land it better. Therefore, to me at least, he is the better puncher.