Ward could end a fight with one body shot against C level opposition. I don't think he deserves to be listed among Chavez, Arguello, and Saldivar.
I do. He stopped a lot of guys w/ body punches. Another good one was Roberto Elizondo. And 2 great ones were Pintor and Gomez. Of course McGuigan, Hamsho beat Benitez basically cause he hurt hjim so bad w/ body punches in rd. 3 that Wilfredo stayed in the corner the rest of the time. Mardo Roybal was a good body puncher, and of course the great Briscoe and Fletcher. Mike Weaver was a really good bodypuncher, as were Ray Mancini and Bazooka Limon. Cuevas crushed to the body and after the Duran fight Leo. saw the results of body battering. .
This is an older McCallum but it's still worth a watch: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1dlKTdTcLg[/ame]
Luis Manuel Rodriguez...his two handed attacks to the mid section were so often relentless from the beginning and very nearly always paid dividends down the track.
Excellant shout very different from most body punchers with his smooth boxing style. Lupe Pintor had a brutal left hook to the body that was crippling as did Jose Torres. But my favrouite is Olivares.
Yeh, I remember reading afterwards Pastrano never thought his liver was quite right after it either. All the Murderer's Row guys seem like good body punchers.
Joe Frazier, such brutal pressure in his destruction of the body. “Kill the body and the head will die.”
Before he started to deteriorate as a technician, Gerald McClellan proved to be a devastating body puncher, particularly with that left hook. He had at least 10 KO's with it, most of them in the first round early in his career. It's a shame he didn't have a sharper mind, because if he could've brought his physical tools together he'd have been something. Alas, he was a head-case both in and out of the ring, especially after Steward packed his bags, and karma eventually caught up to him in the Benn fight. Tragic career. I'm not a big supporter of the guy, but he had some unreal punching power.