Campbell Hatton has had to learn to deal with the level of pressure that comes with his family name.
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Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou have both shown how strong they are by taking part in a fun punch machine challenge.
When boxers go on TV, they often have to try the 'punch machine challenge', especially if they are a big champion. 'AJ' was on the Graham Norton show in 2017 and took his suit jacket off before testing his strength.
Before him, actors Rachel Weisz, Martin Freeman and Greg Davies had a go and got scores of 182, 594 and 632 respectively. Then it was the turn of Joshua and with his right hand, he got a score of 848, which broke the old record of 787.
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More recently, Ngannou also tried a punch machine when he was in London, talking about his fight with Joshua. He didn't use the same machine as Joshua, so we can't say who is stronger from this. But when Ngannou hit the machine without even trying hard, he got the top score of 999. He put up a video of his amazing punch and asked: "Who can beat my score?"
In 2018, Ngannou set a world record for the strongest punch ever. He got a score of 129,161 units on a PowerKube, which checks how powerful a punch is by looking at how hard, accurate and fast it is.
"Francis Ngannou has the world record for the most powerful punch, his punch is the equivalent to 96 horsepower which is equal to getting hit by a Ford Escort going as fast as it can," said UFC president Dana White. "And it's more powerful than a 12-pound sledgehammer swung full force from overhead. Holy sh**!"
But now, UFC middleweight Joe Pyfer has beaten that record with a huge punch that scored 170,218 units - that's 31.7 per
Campbell Hatton has had to learn to deal with the level of pressure that comes with his family name.
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