MMA fighters and body punches

It is dangerous to throw body punches as it leaves your hands down, particularly when your in close you can do more damage with knee's in close too.

 

Hong Man Choi quit from taking too much damage to the body against Badr Hari.

 

Its used occasionally Melvin Guillard KOed Gabe Rudiger with it on a UFC show a few years ago also Sergei Khratinov uses them well. I think alot of it has to do with them not wanting to expose themselfs more to the Muay Thai Plum or even a sharp elbow which will likely cut you. Plus MMA guys mostly only really practice the basics of boxing alot of basic jabs,crosses and hooks

 

You have to be incredibly smart as to when you use it. Watch Liddell v Rampage II for when not to throw body shots.

 

mma is not boxing, why punch to the body when you can use your knee and keep both your arms and fists free

 

Also, Scott Smith went down from a great body shot against Pete Sell before knocking him out.

It depends on the fight, but sometimes body shots get used over and over. Watch the recent Kevin Burns vs. Chris Lytle fight. Lytle really breaks him down with right hooks to the body. It seems like they're used pretty much only when a guy is moving back so that they can't easily catch you with the stuff discussed above and so in mma it turns out to be a shot at range. The times when they're used the most in boxing is on the inside, whereas in mma you're clinching and looking for takedowns and dirty boxing and throwing knees and all sorts of other stuff that keeps you from doing the kind of inside work that you see in boxing.

 

YouTube top 10 body shots in mma, it's part of a series with armbars and leglocks, there are tons of body punches that have ended or let to the ending of fights.

Watch a Bas Rutten highlight, he was ending fights with body shots in Pancrase before the UFC existed.

You are either just seeing what you want to see because of bias or haven't seen much MMA.

 

Yeah, Bas loves himself a liver punch!

 

Body punching is going to be less of an occurrence in mma than in boxing. In boxing, you only have two limbs able to attack the body. In mma, there are four. In boxing, only two limbs are capable of countering body shots. In mma, there are four.

 

melvin guillard knocked a guy down from a bodyshot, right hand. and the guy could not continue.

 

I agree, body shots are overlooked in MMA. Pretty much everyones post, IMO, was correct above me just different perspectives.
I think body shot do leave you exposed in MMA MUCH more than boxing, at the same time they are not used enough else. I think liver shots with MMA gloves is deadly and should be looked for as much as a good right hook to the chin. Especially when the opponents back is to the cage or the circling out to that side.
Body punches made a lot of highlights but I think there could be a lot more if top fighters looked for them more.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6mFd00yfgk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD-R79Zf44Q

 

I remember at an ultimate fighter finale Pete Sell hit Scott Smith with a great body shot, Smith doubled over and as Sell charged in for the kill Smith landed a nice right hand and KO'd Pete. I really enjoyed that fight.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRcXr3kanJY