Most brutal displays of body punching?

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  1. Blofeld

    Blofeld Active Member Full Member

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    What it says, let me know some savage examples of vicious body punching. Either single shots or prolonged beatdown.
     
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  2. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    McCallum vs Watson sticks out to me. There's others, though.
     
  3. lone star

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    Roy Jones Jr vs Virgil Hill @ Michael Nunn vs Crawford Ashley comes to mind.
     
  4. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  5. haNZAgod

    haNZAgod New Member Full Member

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    Eddie Mustafa Muhammad vs Marvin Johnson
     
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  6. Glass City Cobra

    Glass City Cobra H2H Burger King Full Member

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    Sheeeeeet, almost any Frazier or Chavez fight.
     
  7. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

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    De La Hoya vs. Hopkins was especially brutal. Also any Inoue fight.
     
  8. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    For a prolonged beating I would say one of them would be Ron Lyle against Joe Bugner. After the fight Bugner ended up with purple welts on his sides from the continued shots.
     
  9. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I will also add in the Carlos Palomino v John Stracey fight. The pain on Stracey's face and body language in the 12th round said it all.
     
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  10. surfinghb

    surfinghb Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Jofre v Aoki
    Jofre v Fukuyama ... take your pic

    Ward setting up Sanchez also deserves a mention
     
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  11. Terror

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    Here are the ones that come to mind:

    Cotto vs. Jennings: Overmatched and outgunned Jennings takes a crippling beating to the head and body from a slightly post-prime Cotto. This was awesome to see. Great showcase for the skills of Miguel Cotto. It's awesome to see a demigod in there with a skilled mortal every now and then. Every time Cotto landed to the body, you could see the shift in Jennings' body language. Cotto was the best left hook-er to the liver I've seen during my time watching boxing.

    Daud Yordan vs. Celestino Caballero: just a billion rounds of that trademark Bazooka Limon style swinging at an undersized Yordan. A horrible beating to the body, but Yordan just took it. Credit to him. The commentary team was in near tears about the brutality of the shots Yordan was absorbing and Yordan and his corner were absolutely unfazed.

    Definitely the left hook Ward hit Gatti and Sanchez with. Wow that was a banger, Ward had the sweetest left hook to the liver. I know it's a retread to mention but on his podcast with Mike Tyson he mentioned that you don't need every piece of the puzzle to make the picture of a good boxer, you just need enough pieces to make a picture that makes sense. His "left hook to the body" puzzle piece was one of the best I've seen.

    Definitely RJJ knocking out Virgil Hill WITH A BODY SHOT! That I have not forgot. Then he made a gold album about it.
     
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  12. Greg Price99

    Greg Price99 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    A few single body shot KO's that I've not seen mentioned yet, that stick out in my memory:

    Fitzsimmons vs Corbett (that's memory of retrospectively reading about & watching the footage, no memory of the live fight!)
    GGG vs Macklin
    Hatton vs Castillo
    Lomachenko vs Linares
     
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    Eddie Mustafa Muhammad vs. Marvin Johnson
     
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    greynotsoold Boxing Addict Full Member

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  15. Ken Ashcroft

    Ken Ashcroft Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Julio Cesar Chavez against Edwin Rosario.