Can a bodyshot be effective in a street fight?

I've hit to the body when the other person has missed badly. It works amazingly well on drunks who I could have hit in the face with a hammer and not fazed them. Breathing is important even to drunk people. One thing about body shots....they are always there. The average person in a street fight leads in with arms flailing and the head leaned straight back. Punches thrown in a looping manner,after bringing the fist back well behind the ear to build up "momentum" The body of a street punk is usually bent slightly backwards with the shoulders slightly leaned back over the feet. The only thought is to protect their head. And they will sling themselves all over the place to avoid getting hit in the face. Because of this....the left hand is often only used as a blocking tool to catch incoming right hands. This allows for easy shots to the body under the persons left arm. Which will usually be well elevated. For evidence, type in "street fights" into youtube. I have seen several instances of body shots causing the knees to buckle, and have even seen a left to the body cause the person that has been punched to swing their upper body forward with their arms down to protect the midsection. It is far easier than landing clean to the face of a juiced up crackhead who doesnt want to get hit.

. As soon as they start pushing, you dig a hard left hook to the liver and end it right there :boxing: Dont ever wait for the pushing shit..Someone wonts it just give it to erm straight away dont wait for no man. Pushing is for people who are still thinking weather or not to do it. As soon as they call you just lace erm straight away dont be standing there pushing thats for girls.:boxing:

might be off topic but you ever see some wobble like say sam peter after gettin hit in a street fight,i dont think it could happen but just askin

Any type of shot can be effective. But the most effective would be a gun shot.

I have never thrown a body punch in street fight,Not knowingly And I have never seen someone win a fight from a body punch..if ya gonna get in that close then grab the fuker and bite his face off pull his eyes out rip his ears off there are no rules in a street fight best use that to your advantage, the best of all that works for me time and time again is a punch to the throat. or the neck...but I guess would a body shot be affective yep if ya can place your shot!

Are you people kidding me of course a body shot works in a street fight . The reason why you never see it done is because most street fighters have never had any kind of training and can't think more then one or two moves at a time. It all comes down to where the fight is, what's going on and whether or not you have that option but to say that it can not work at all doesn't make any sense at all.

I can recall at least 3 times where a sucker punch to the bread basket (stomach) has helped me out of some bad situations where I was about to be pummeled by 3 or 4 guys lol....so yeah, body shots can be VERY effective.

Most guys will double right over with a strong punch to their midsection. Unless they are in real good shape you can often feel their backbone at the end of the punch. Backboners end up on the ground almost immediately and the fight's over.

I would say that it is probably effective, but because most idiots on the street can be deterred with a couple of punches to the face it's easier to throw out a couple of jabs and maybe a right hand.

I think in a street fight, a body shot is just as effective as a hit to the face. If you hit someone with a straight right hard shot right in the middle, right between the ribs. It will leave the opponent stunned and breathless.

I was in a street fight a couple of weeks ago and I layed the guy out with one right cross... So no you dont really need to go to the body because if you learnt any boxing technics it will be easy just to KO the guy with one powerful blow... In street fights guys tend to throw really wierd akward looping punches so its easy to just sneak in a right hand.

From a boxer absolutely. I don't think people realize how hard a trained boxer can hit.

Mmmm if your gonna have time to look for a body shot, Then ya best off doing some grapling!! While your looking to throw that punch to the body your gonna take more than a few to the head, And whats to say that your gonna land it where its most effective..I wouldnt dream of going to the body unless te guy was bent over with his back facing towards the sky then maybe smash the body left and right.

if you're fighting a skinny guy on the street, you could most definitely crack a rib if you have a powerful punch, unless they have a strong core. Same thing with a fat guy, u can hurt em, but they have fat to cushion the blow as well, which doesn't do a whole lot but still helps protect against a body shot. You wouldn't be able to hurt a bodybuilder in the body though. How do you work it wouldnt hurt a body builder? I bet if you caught even ronnie coleman with a body shot then he'd drop like a bad habbit. No matter how much strength you have in your abs and core, if you get caught hard enough and in the right position you're going to go down.

You can charge in with a stance sort of like Winky or Tyson. I much rather go for the body then the head 1 punch. Nobody is wearing gloves and the difference is like being hit with a baseball and a pillow with a tennis shoe in it. You can't take too fucking many shots on the mouth bare knucked man. 2? 3? Ok. not 5, 10, 20. With gloves on...........the impact is great yes...and you feel the shock. But you don't start to fracture like you would getting hit with bare knuckles. That's a whole new ballgame. Never pay again for live sex! | Hot girls doing naughty stuff for free! | Chat for free!

Feasible: Yes according to these people and not me. A street fight shouldn't consist of beating up a drunk acquaintance. I'm talking about throwing down. Recommended: Haha yeah right. Why would you expose your mouth to aim at someone's belly? Man if I could bite both of my fists and chew them like a rubber ducky on top of a mouthpiece to absorb shock I would. Getting hit in the mouth sucks. Never pay again for live sex! | Hot girls doing naughty stuff for free! | Chat for free!

yeh i guess it could b effective but for some reason, it seems like a body shot with a boxing glove will hurt more then a body shot witout a glove..

Theres no doubt a bare fisted punch to the ribs would hurt like hell, and possibly take the guy out. But it just seems too risky to me. You expose yourself when you throw a hook to the body. I'd rather throw straight punches to the face.

never been in an actual street fight, but id guess itd be good. When i used to box i got hit in the body a lot and it kills if it lands right, ur gasping for air. seems like a good idea. probably a better idea to just go head hunting, cause the fights only last like 30 seconds

a good right cross to the windpipe were the ribs meet