Boxers with devastating body blows?

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  1. VG_Addict

    VG_Addict Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    What boxers had devastating KO power in their body punches?
     
  2. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    Micky Ward
    Ruben Olivares
    Mike Tyson
    Julio Cesar Chavez
    Eder Jofre
    Fitzsimmons
    Roberto Duran
     
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    Bummy Davis Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Gerry Cooney had a great left hook to the body

    Mickey ward in modern times, Mickey Walker in days gone by

    Mike McCallum
     
  4. dyna

    dyna Boxing Junkie banned

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    Don't you mean livershot?

    I personally make a difference between standard bodyblows and livershots.
    A livershot is something you can onehit boxers with, normal body blows are damage by accumulation.
     
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    Roy Jones. He KO'd Glenn Wolfe early in his career with a body punch, but after he KO'd Virgil Hill, he was devastating.

    "Roy Jones Junior is the best body puncher in boxing. He can actually knock you out with a body shot"

    -George Foreman
     
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    Gerald Mclellan, Mickey Ward, JCC, Tony Zale, Lloyd Marshall & Jack Dempsey are a few names.

    I don't know if it's the one punch KO kind of power, but Kid Azteca has a reputation of being a terrific body puncher with a particularly vicious hook to the liver and, if the boxrec records are correct, he had more than 100 KO's to his name. I know nothing about him though.
     
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    ricky hatton deserves a mention
     
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    chavez, gatti, frazier, tyson can be added to the ones already stated.

    riddick bowe could bang the body pretty well, just watch the bowe-holy 1 fight, more specificaly rounds 3 and 6
     
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    Jeffries deserves a mention.

    He prety much beat all his opponents using a body attack.
     
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    Mosley before he fell into that power boxing nonsense :verysad
     
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    Alexis Arguello was good at KOing the body.
     
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    The executioner deserves a mention:

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    As far as the best and most brutal body Punchers...my top 3 would be
    Mike Tyson
    Tommy Hearns
    Joe Frazier
     
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    'I loved Williams' right uppercut, left, left, right on Gatica.'

    'Don't you mean a four punch combo?'


    --

    'Hagler almost knocked down Caveman Lee with a jab.'

    'Hmm don't you mean a power jab?'


    Get the **** out!
     
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