Chen Jue had held back with that shake and throw. He had not injured the tiger, only shaken apart its force so that it could not follow through with a bite.
An adult tiger's paw strike was roughly 10 percent stronger than a lion's, ranking first among all felines.
The strongest tigers could deliver a paw strike with as much as 1,000 kilograms of force!
What did that amount of force mean?
It was equivalent to a 100-kilogram boulder falling freely from a height of over five meters!
Even the world-famous boxing champion Tyson could only punch with 800 pounds of force, about 363 kilograms-nearly three times less than a tiger's paw strike!
Oh, and incidentally, Tyson had once kept three tigers himself. In the end, afraid of being injured by a swipe from one of his own tigers, he had given up keeping them.
Supreme Ultimate Fist had a technique people spoke of in almost supernatural terms: four ounces deflecting a thousand pounds. Only after practicing Supreme Ultimate Fist himself, and even raising it to level 4, had Chen Jue understood that it was not nearly as miraculous as the rumors made it out to be.
In Chen Jue's view, four ounces deflecting a thousand pounds was merely a technique for releasing force. It ought to have another half-line before it: "Raw strength overcame ten techniques."
To deflect a thousand pounds with four ounces, the prerequisite was that you first had to possess a thousand pounds of strength yourself. Only then could you truly apply skillful force to redirect your opponent's power.
It was just like boxing and weightlifting competitions, where athletes were divided into lighter and heavier classes according to their body weight before competing. The strength ordinary people could develop through training was limited; generally, the greater