What are “units” that measure punches?

Question

A friend and I were talking about Francis Ngannou and trying to figure out the strength of his punches but the measurement used everywhere is just “129000 units” (except one place that used horsepower”

What is a unit and why not use something like psi to measure strength?

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Answer 1

The people who generated that number have not released a formula, so at best it’s proprietary and at worst (and more likely) it’s made up. I’m guessing they just wanted a big number to attach to the punch and Newtons or PSI just didn’t do it for them.