Would boxing be as exciting without.....

I always thought it made Micky Ward exciting.

a nice left hook to the body is something beautiful

Apparently you have never seen Floyd Mayweather fight. Mayweather threw an average of 45 punches per round in his last three fights?

Apparently you have never seen Floyd Mayweather fight. Damn where did you find that video sig of Junior Gong doing the rope a dope..thats classic :boxing:

Apparently you have never seen Floyd Mayweather fight. Floyd Mayweather's fights are fine... he managed to sell some of them, or not?

Can't know for sure until we see boxing without punching. Apparently you have never seen Floyd Mayweather fight.

It drove me nuts a couple of years ago how so many world class fighters didn't punch to the body. Things have changed lately, thankfully.

gotta be some sort of anti wladimir thread :lol1: it's pretty obvious that taking body punches out of boxing is limiting.

Body punching definitely plays a part in making the sport more exciting. Yes a lot of the time it is neglected, for example Ali barely threw to the body and he was one of the best ever. But me personally I love to see a good well placed body shot. Also a big part of the sport is to break a man down to the body, beat him slow and wear him down over the course of the fight....It's too big of a dimension of the game to overlook. There are some great body shots in the history of the sport too that are just as entertaining, if not more, than some headshot knockouts; Hopkins vs De La Hoya, Roy Jones Jr. vs Hill, Cotto vs Foreman, Hatton vs Castillo, for a few modern examples. Shots to the body where also a big part of what made Gatti - Ward a great fight too...

Problems, doe? Better make it: "Does punching make boxing more exciting?" .... Can't know for sure until we see boxing without punching.

I would like to see more fighters going to the body.

So Im having a debate with a poster here and he says as fighters have a high workrate they don't need to work the body to be exciting. Imagine the Gatti-Ward fights with no body punching. Holyfield-Bowe, Frazier against Ali, Hearns-Barkley or any JCC fight with no body punching. Would they have been nearly as exciting? Working the body not only slows the other fighter down its an integral part of opening up head shots. Vote and discuss please. Problems, doe? Better make it: "Does punching make boxing more exciting?" ....

well if Jabs don't count, as poster D4tincarnation says, why would we need body punching? Every match can be hooks and uppercuts to the head!!! Go back and watch a heavyweight fight in Joe Louis' era, and that's what you'll get!

biggity bumpy

HW champion of the world doesnt throw body punches. Just saying Neither do most of the HW contenders. Terribly eroded skills in that division.

well if Jabs don't count, as poster D4tincarnation says, why would we need body punching? Every match can be hooks and uppercuts to the head!!! Rock em, sock em robots style?

HW champion of the world doesnt throw body punches. Just saying

So Im having a debate with a poster here and he says as fighters have a high workrate they don't need to work the body to be exciting. Imagine the Gatti-Ward fights with no body punching. Holyfield-Bowe, Frazier against Ali, Hearns-Barkley or any JCC fight with no body punching. Would they have been nearly as exciting? Working the body not only slows the other fighter down its an integral part of opening up head shots. Vote and discuss please. well if Jabs don't count, as poster D4tincarnation says, why would we need body punching? Every match can be hooks and uppercuts to the head!!!

Why this is even a poll ... no real boxing fan would ever suggest that boxing would be better without bodyshots Well two have, the one who voted that way and KBRO. Than again, I suppose I don't consider either of those guys "real" boxing fans, so I guess you're right.