Best Body Punchers of the 21st Century

GGG, Hatton, Micky Ward, Cotto, Barrera, Ali Raymi :yep

 

Gennady "GGG God of war Kazak Thunder" Golovkin

 

Think Mosley deserves a shoutout. He deviated away from body snatching when he entered the higher weight classes.

But back when he was younger (135 lber) (In the 90's), he was quite the exquisite body puncher. He did great work in the 2000's, but he never really put emphasis on body punching in the 2000's.

 

Tony Baloo

 

Umm...

Holyfield

Tyson I think...

Maybe bute?....

 

Kovalev´s straight punches to the body seem to work just fine..

 

Lomachenko according to Al Bernstein, Max Kellerman and myself.
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Too bad Lomachenko lacks power. It's the only facet of the game that prevents him from being a truly complete fighter. Though he kind of makes up for it. I've never seen a guy land 3 consecutive body punches at will to KO somebody like he did against Koasicha.

 

His style isn't really centred towards his power but out-pointing his opponent, kind of like a Mayweather. He fights on his terms, and only when he wants to really sit on his punches, he will. That's usually after accumulating punches over a longer stretch and then open up when he knows he's got you.

Having said that, if he did have very good power, Russell Jr would have been gone earlier. Russell Jr wouldn't have survived another round though, but still. Lomachenko would have suited a 15 round fight even more than 12 rounds. He would have had a more Salvador Sanchez esque late round finishing reputation.

 

Golovkin is at the top he drops guys with body shots with either hand which is rare .... and if he drops you with a body shot and you get up to fight on , he's gonna land more of them