The best body puncher in history

[shadymg]

i'll never forget the SOUND of the punch as much of the reaction!! i cringed just listening to it :-)

[nawfal]

wards body punch was sickening i agree. but he ddint put enough pressure on his opponents, and was a little plodding.

[jack_the_rippuh]

i'll never forget the SOUND of the punch as much of the reaction!! i cringed just listening to it :-)

How about Hill vs. Jones Jr. that was quite a smack..

[Slipx]

wards body punch was sickening i agree. but he ddint put enough pressure on his opponents, and was a little plodding.

and would get cut very easily..

[WillieW]

JCC, Salvator Sanches, and Mikey Ward.

JCC and Sanches would break their opponents bodys down throughout the fight.

Ward would end the fight with one shot. 27 KOs on his record...almost all the result of body shots.

[brickhouse187]

Definitely when it comes down to body punching u hav 2 includ jc chavez, but mickey ward only had in my opinion one good body punch which was the left hook. If he would of used more of a two handed body assault i would have put him higher.

[{BrownBomber}]

Cant believe nobody has mentioned JC Chavez

I was wondering also. How many fighters do u know made guys quit on there stool because of the body attack?(Mayweather 2) How many guys u know made u piss two pints of blood due to the body attack?(Taylor 1)

[cple]

So many to name, but off the top of my head:

-Joe Frazier: could be hailed as the best of all-time based on pure determination, effort, and relentlessness.
-Mike McCallum: they didn't called him the "Body Snatcher" for nothing.
-Bob Fitzsimmons: won the heavyweigh title on a single left hook to the solar plexus. Yeah, that was pretty good...
-Tony Zale: from all accounts, he had the best body attack of his day.
-Julio Cesar Chavez: what Mexican can't throw a left hook to the body? His was probably the best of them all, and that's saying something.

There are also many fighters who were so versatile and skilled, they didn't concentrate on the body as much, but they still thew excellent body blows: Roberto Duran, Ray Leonard, Alexis Arguello

[666boy666]

I think Hagler shadowboxed underwater, many of the good fighters have done it but when you see their routine posted it doesn't include it for some reason. What else would give him such an edge when it came to punching power, also swimming strengthens the neck, maybe that's why he was un KO'able..

I also know for a fact that Johnny Tapia shadowboxed underwater (not that he's a great fighter)

LOL, Ali started this "underwater" fighting craze.

I remember watching a sportscentury about him, Ali couldn't even swim, and he just jumped in the water and made up a story about practicing underwater for this writer watching him for a couple laughs. Now every body thinks it's required to be a champ LOL

I always hated ali, but it's so funny to think everybody that trains underwater, does so from a prank

[TheEvilSaint]

i say bob fitzsimmons.