Despite the announcers claiming bodyshots will slow someone down later, they Never DO

15 rounds? a new low for you, and that's saying something.

 

I can see why you believe this. There are often times when body shots don't appear to do much damage, I think it's largely because most fighters train to absorb body shots, so most are conditioned to take them. And any fighter will tell you that the most damaging punches are the one they don't see or expect, see Maidana vs Khan. Khan dropped Maidana with a great body shot, and it looked like the fight was over at that point, but Maidana can back to make it a very competitive fight. It's not like Khan didn't go back to the body after that, the difference was Maidana obviously braced himself for those shots and knew Khan could hurt him to the body. I said that to say this, Khan's body shot was effective because one, it was a good shot, but two, Maidana wasn't ready for it.

Body shots are only as good as the person throwing them.

 

******.

 

You're right.

My bad.
Although the fight was 15 rds, Ali KO'ed Foreman in the 8th.

Still, that 8 rounds of body shots Ali absorbed from Foreman were like nothing many other top fighters have ever experienced in the ring.

 

Ali took a worse beating to the body from Frazier in the FOTC and Manila than he did against Foreman in Zaire.

Foreman was landing hard bodyshots but also fighting like an idiot with his hands so open and leaving himself exposed, and Ali was landing the cleaner shots all night long.

Ali is a rare case anyway. He is perhaps the best ever at taking body shots. He took a total beating to the body in Manila, in 100 degree weather, and still finished very strong in rounds 13 and 14.

For that matter, Leonard's ability to take Duran's body shots in Montreal and finish stronger than Duran was also very impressive.

 

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Tho Tomoki didn't land many, that one beautiful bodyshot is all it took to halt a rampaging Singyu, who fought like a champ. The way Tomoki set the bodyshot up with a short left uppercut was excellent.

 

Care to cite examples of this?

 

Body shots will absolutely take the legs right out from under a fighter. Head shots don't unusually hurt until the next day. Body shots and I mean any body shot hurts right now. The only time I ever went down for the count was from a monster shot to the liver. It was 30 seconds of not being able to catch my breath and of thinking I was gonna die. The first two fights of my amateur career. I went down from head shots but got right back up with no affect. The body shot bruised my ribs and it took over a week to heal. I would take one hundred punches to the head before I would take one clean body shot.

 

That ****ing Paulie. He was about to cry over the 117 card. Runner's never get any breaks, waaah! :|

 

Body shots clearly slow most fighters down but those extra 3 rounds 13,14,15 really made a difference and with less rounds now perhaps the body attack is not quite as important ?

 

They do.

 

Depends on the fight. Thurman's body shot's definitely took their toll on Chaves.

 

If you want to know for real, then get in the ring yourself. After you take some shots to the liver and plexus, you should come back here and educate us scrubs on how body work is useless and never amounts to anything significant.