Straight punches to body? Good idea?

Roy Jones would Jab upstairs, then BOOM......straight right hand to the body.

 

I do it all the time. Jabs and right hands.

Jab head -> jab body
Jab head -> right to body
Slip your opponents jab and throw a jab to his body
Slip his right and throw a right to the body
etc

Floyd Mayweather will throw a lot of jabs to the body, but you don't need to be as fast as him to do it safely. Alfredo Angulo does it alot too and he's pretty slow. Love how he KO'd Joel Julio. Got him looking for the jab to the body, feinted it and came with a hard right to the head.

 

**** yes, nothing to protect their organs

 

Floyd Mayweather throws Jabs to the body, allot more in the mid rounds....when his oponents are becoming mentally fatigued.

When he throws a hard Jab to the body, this brings there hands down........then BOOM.

Straight Right Hand to the head.

He got Shane Mosley with this move, i'm gonna try and find the footage.

 

sounds like a good idea to me

 

The first big right hand in round two landed by Shane was a perfect jab to the body, right hand upstairs combo. Very effective, I do it myself.

 

The only time I throw a straight punch to the body, is after a jab to the head.

 

Hell yeah. No feeling like landing a big right hand right on the gut!

 

A jab to the body thrown in I find very effective, being a taller figher it throws people off a little when trying to close the gap.

Never een able to land a straight right there though.

 

Remember to bend your knees.

 

In amateur's a straight right to the body rarely scores, unless you hear a loud hiss of air come outta the opponent or you drop him

saying that though, it's still a great shot to throw!!

 

Yup. Don't punch downwards. You're open for a counter. Bend your knees and throw straight out.

 

One of my favorite things to do is a lunging jab-right hand downstairs. You set it up thusly:

Stay out of range. Jump in with a jab, then back out. Make it a double or triple jab sometimes. Maybe even a 1-3.

Then bring the lunging 1-2. This probably won't land, but it'll push him back if you do it right: Jump into the jab and execute the pivot for the 2 while in midair (so your feet land at the same time your punch does). Put serious power behind it, the goal being to make the guy think "I can't let him land that or I'm dead." Do it a few times, make it a 1-2-3, 1-2-2, etc.

Then finally, load up on another one. Freaking telegraph it. But this time, drop about 6 inches lower than you normally do. The punch will look like a straight right to the head, but it'll land right below the left pec and HURT LIKE A MOTHER****ER.

Bonus Points:
If he gets all high and mighty and tries to duck or slip your right, it'll land on his face (probably the bridge of the nose). See Froch vs. Kessler. Heck, if you want to see some serious straight rights to the body in general, see Froch vs. Kessler.

The straight right to the body is a good punch, but you want to use it along with a right hook to the body, left hook to the body, right uppercut to the body, etc. Don't let him get used to guarding against the same punch, unless you're doing it to set up one of the others.