Fighters who were great at defending or resisting body shots

James Toney, besides having a great defense, has proven his resistance to body shots throughout his career, where he has faced two hard hitting body fighters, McCallum and Jirov.

 

Duran ate a ton of body shots from Barkley and in the end his gas tank was surprisingly more full than Barkley.

 

Locche and Mayweather were good at defending against them, Leonard stood up to some brutal ones from Duran in Montreal

 

Winky Wright but he had a huge anatomical advantage in blocking body shots due to his long arms and short torso. Still impressive, though, how he was able to leave so few openings for his opponents with his high guard defense.

 

Rocchigiani blocked them v.well apart from v Eubank. The only time Eubank was great at leading off with accuracy was against a static target it seemed.

 

You beat me to it. Toney was tough as nails to the body. Ike Quartey is another guy that could eat a shot downstairs. With his high guard, guys would always try to attack him downstairs but I can't think of a time when he ever was significantly hurt by a body shot. Lopez and Vargas really went after him downstairs.

 

It's ironic that every third thread seems to involve Ali, and yet only the OP mentioned him a thread where Ali should be rightfully recognized? God knows how many opponents tried to get to Ali's body, and I don't ever remember him being seriously hurt there.

 

Dmitry Bivol when he fought Canelo, he was able to angle his elbow every time ever so slightly, to completely throws Canelo’s body shots off of their trajectory,

 

Roberto Duran.

 

I mean, Ali was good at “resisting” them but he was hit there a lot more than someone like say Toney… I see he’s been mentioned 3x rightfully so, great at countering body punches not just blocking them.

 

Nice call on that one

 

Ribalta and the shots he took from Tyson

 

Toney, Walcott, Moore…