Been watching a few rounds a night of Chuvalo-Patterson, and although he didn't win, George was putting some awesome body punches on Floyd, enough to make me wince at times. Surprised Floyd could take them like he did
Duran against Moore was brutal. Limon against every opponent he ever fought. Fulllmer vs. Paret Frazier against all. And yes Ali 3 beyond brutal. MICKEY WALKER
One of the greatest body punchers was the great Eusebio Pedroza. He had many body punching KOs. But my fave is how he cowed and beat laporte with body punching. Laporte started off strong and on the third, rocked Eusebio with a right hand. It was after this in the middle of the round that Pedroza said fcuk this and proceeded to beat little zzz juans body. In the next round Eusebio cornered juan and did nothing but beat the sheeeit out of his body. A few were low but 98% were just great shots. LsPorte as he usually did, gave up trying to win and instead fought to survive. As a result of how badly Pedroza hurt him to the body, gutless cheater LaPorte never entered the ring agaoin without his cup up under his armpits.
eric morales vs zaragoza- punch to the solar plexus that ended it after a great battle! vassily jirov's speciality was body punching as well!
Matthew Saad Muhammad v. Louis Pergaud True, Pergaud wasn't really world class enough to warrant a title shot, but still Saad worked over the body before faking a left to the body and landing a picture perfect fight ending left hook/uppercut to the chin.
Oh and I would be remiss if I failed to mention Toney's great body crushing beatdown of the weightlifter E. Holyfield.
Yes, this was a brutal display of body punching by Pedroza. However the highlighted part is unnecessarily harsh and not really true, in my opinion. Pedroza did land a TON of low blows in that fight. In fact he landed a lot of low blows in a lot of fights. The referees were usually WBA house refs though, so he was never DQ'd. And LaPorte was a tough and gallant fighter who fought all the best guys at 126 lbs and most at 130 lbs and was never even dropped and only stopped once, at 140 lbs very late in his career - basically at the end of it. He was not a quitter. You think he didn't try to beat Chavez and Nelson?. He tried like hell and gave them extremely competitive fights. Juan Laporte didn't have a sparkling record, but he has one of the highest quality of opposition resumes you'll see re: the 1980s = in any devision. And he stopped a guy in two rounds that Pedroza struggled mightily agasint - Rocky Lockridge. Nobody else ever did that to Lockridge in his entire career.
many of you probably don't remember this. A small fight. Simon Brown vs. Shawn OSullivan on CBS I think. or NBC.. O Sullivans body was red and the fight lasted only 3 rounds