Best Body Punchers

"Manc Tank" Ricky Hatton deserves a mention. :deal

 

I thought Campillo had some good body punching last night :deal

Qawi also dug to the body beautifully.

 

Chavez, Duran, Frazier, McCallum, to name a few.

My favorite display of bodypunching is Eddie Mustafa Muhammad against Marvin Johnson. He destroyed poor Marvin to the body, particularly getting in that left hook.

 

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Duran
Ayala
Hagler
McCallum
Marciano
Frazier
Hamsho
Fletcher
Pryor

 

Very good lists going - I would like to add Tony Zale and Lupe Pintor... Hopkins can also be brutal to the body as Del La Hoya can confirm...

 

vassiliy jirov has to the best, if not one of the best in the past 20 years. recently the guy in my avatar vernon paris is great at attacking the body

 

Chavez
McCallum
Duran
Fraizer
Arguello


Chavez' body attack against Rosario is the greatest display of breaking a fighter down with body punching in modern times IMO.

 

Frazier is the best body puncher of all time IMO, mostly built around that murderous, versatile and persistent left hook to the kidney

 

Not really a good call for best, but just an outside pick:

Ike Ibeabuchi was developing into a mean body puncher. Actually, when people talk about him as a prospect, what I really saw was the best body punching heavyweight fighter since Tyson.

He had a lot of technical work to do, but I wish I could have seen him take it downstairs consistently against a real world class fighter. That would have been the litmus test.

 

Jeff Fenech used bodypunching very effectively

 

All good shout-outs. I'm going to post footage of a fighter most don't readily think about in terms of effective body punching, but was damn good at it when he wanted to be:

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Never get tired of watching that.

 

Bob Fitzsimmons- accomplished the single greatest feat of body punching in history when he won the heavyweight championship of the world with a body shot.

Tony Zale
Roberto Duran
Mike McCallum
Julio Cesar Chavez
Frank Klaus
Billy Petrolle
Ace Hudkins

 

Jose Torres v Willie Pastrano.