Calzaghe's Body Attack

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  1. Dunks

    Dunks Absolute Grandmaster Full Member

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  2. Jennifer Love Hewitt

    Jennifer Love Hewitt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The form of Joe's attacks are sort of irrelevant to his style. As long as his arms are moving, it's effective. He wins fights by volume more than by causing punishment.
     
  3. stonerose

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    he hurt jones a few times to the body, earlier rounds especially
     
  4. Sweet Pea

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    It had less to do with the fact that Jones is shot and hasn't had good stamina or been able to keep up a consistent pace for the past 4 years in any of his fights, regardless of the caliber of opposition.
     
  5. Gatekeeper78

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    I think Joe was hitting Jones harder than we all suspected, and the body shots definetly had its toll and the cut sealed the deal.
     
  6. catasyou

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    He wearded Roy down in the mid and latter rounds
     
  7. Akxtinguish

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    It's all about activity. He's got the ability to keep swinging for 12 rounds without showing fatigue.
     
  8. Monstar

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    none.....

    as soon as it was decided that he was fighting jones, the fight was decided.....
     
  9. Ted Stickles

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    I think it helped ,body shots always help
     
  10. BigBone

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    Thank you very much! Finally a thread on the subject. If you not only watch but listen to the broadcast, you can clearly hear that the loudest actual connects were Calzaghe's body shots, and a LOT was landing clean round after round.

    IMO Roy was in great condition, one third of those shots landed on Kessler and hurt him, and IMO Calzaghe landed on Roy with more power - what a great body recovery Roy has as he never was hurt down there.

    IMO it was body punching that broke Roy's will and punch output. While missing and barely landing upstairs early, Joe landed one body shot after another down there and it worked really well... the key weapon was this, but STILL boxing fans and even experts give very little attention to body punching.
     
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  13. martin0792

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    Most of the shots were blocked and the rest were slapps.
     
  14. ThePlugInBabies

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    against kessler in the mid to late rounds, whenever kessler looked to be creeping back into a round calzaghe's corner would implore him to go to the body which he did, the attacks constantly slowed the big dane down and allowed joe to stay on top.

    last night he used a decent body attack and done the usual mix in a few hard shots with the quick flurries.
     
  15. Drusome

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    That persistent, sharp right to the body was key for Calzaghe.