Who couldn't take it to the body...?

anyone who gets hit with a perfect punch to the body comes to mind for me

 

You already mentioned what I thought of when I read the title of this thread. That was the fight that ran through my mind.

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anyone that fought Roberto Duran between 1972 and 1980.

 

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From recent years, Jeison Rosario. Erickson Lubin stopped him with body shots, and he was also taken out with what looked to me like a half-blocked jab to the body by Jermell Charlo in a unification fight. Time stamped...

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Despite bulking up well to HW, assistance or no assistance, both Holyfield and Usyk have been visibly disturbed by good body shots. In Usyk's case, Dubois' shot was perfectly legal IMO. I think he would've beaten a 10 count but it does go to show you can climb up and best the big dogs of HW, but a real HW puncher can always remind you where you started.

 

Yoshiaki Numata, the jr. lightweight champ - I saw his fight against Raul Rojas and Rojas was killing him early in the fight with bodyshots. It looked like it was going to be over but a Hail Mary uppercut in the 5th saved Numata. It always stuck in my head how Numata reacted when getting hit in the breadbasket. And then I recently had the opportunity to watch his challenge on Mando Ramos for the lightweight title. Again, the reaction to Mando's bodyshots was noticeable and Mando's bodyshots was the key ingredient to Numata's fall in 6.

 

Leonard Dorin was so weak to the body, he took a body shot from Gatti and never fought again

 

Ali.

The Rumble in the Jungle and the Thrilla in Manilla are perfect examples of this.

 

We all saw Kovalev unravel when opponents started going to his body, though I wonder if his penchant for vodka had anything to do with that.

 

Two South Korean boxers from that country's golden age for boxing had very, very strong offensive skills but also showed a pronounced weakness to bodyshots.

Chung-il Choi was a tall, thin super feather with a long reach and fast, straight shots. He won every second of the first six rounds in his title shot against Bazooka Limon, but as soon as Limon landed a couple of bodyshots in the seventh he just couldn't take it. You can't call him a quitter or anything. He physically couldn't withstand those shots to the midsection, and they just shut his body down. Never fought again.

Chan-hee Park looked like the next great flyweight in 1980, but had his career derailed by three losses to Shoji Oguma that saw him struggle with Oguma's bodyshots and some of Oguma's less gentlemanly tactics. Park didn't look like he was physically incapacitated by those bodyshots, but he seemed to get frustrated and tense quite easily. In their first fight he looked like he wanted to go home after about seven rounds, got dropped by a bodyshot in the eighth, and had more or less stopped fighting back in the ninth. In their third fight he seemed to go into retreat mode every time Oguma started attacking his midsection, which was odd given how much damage he'd inflicted on Oguma in that fight, making a real mess of the champion's face. Oguma took a decision by coming on strong in the second half of the fight, and that was the end of Chan-hee Park as a world-level fighter.

It feels very strange to make a post in a thread created when I was about half the age that I am now.

 

Keith Thurman was hurt to the body in at least two different fights, against Pacquiao & Collazo.

 

Omar Figueroa vs Able Ramos. Ramos battered Figueroa's body to point of him throwing up blood in the corner before quitting.