Bolo punch

[The Gambler1981]

It has nothing to do with a knife, it got the name from the throwing weapon by the same name that has two round stones in a piece of leather that is used to tangle up someone/somethings legs.

It is a wide winging sort of punch you wind up and throw at odd angles like you are throwing a bolo.

[Bushidō]

bolo punch is like a curving punch over the top right

[The Gambler1981]

The term should actually be bola but Americans were lazy and changed it to bolo.

[Bushidō]

"Fighters who include the bolo punch in their repertoire often use it as a tactical maneuver without actually attempting a blow. Its most important aspect is a circular motion performed with one arm to distract an opponent, causing the opponent to either take his eyes off the attacker's other arm or actually focus on the fighter's circling arm. When the opponent concentrates on the hand that is circling, the bolo puncher will usually sneak in a punch with the opposite hand. When the rival concentrates on the hand that is not moving, the bolo puncher will usually follow through with a full punch."

"Ceferino Garcia is commonly referred to as the inventor of the bolo punch, though a 1924 article appearing in the Tacoma News-Tribune reported a Filipino boxer named Macario Flores to be using it. Garcia, Kid Gavilan and Sugar Ray Leonard are widely recognized as three of the best bolo punchers in boxing history. Roy Jones Jr. and Joe Calzaghe also use the bolo punch frequently.

When asked once how he came to develop the wide sweeping uppercut, Garcia said that as a youth he cut sugarcane in the Philippine Islands with a bolo knife, which he would wield in a sweeping uppercut fashion.

Three of the most famous cases of a fighter using the bolo punch were when Leonard avenged his loss to Roberto Duran (see "The No Más Fight"), when Leonard drew with Thomas Hearns in their second fight (see Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns), and when Ike Ibeabuchi knocked out Chris Byrd with a left-handed bolo punch during their 1999 heavyweight contest."

[Talon]

dont see how ike's punch wasnt a regular uppercut.. or the ones in the picture above.

**** the bolo punch. just because it has its own name doesnt mean its that special.. id rather just call it an uppercut. there are all types of each punch, a looping right hand is still a right hand.. no need for fancy names. itsa gimmick and if we dont stop talking about it pretty soon we're gonna hear ufc commentators talking about it, and all the fighters trying to do it before they have the basics down

[WhoreUs]

It has nothing to do with a knife, it got the name from the throwing weapon by the same name that has two round stones in a piece of leather that is used to tangle up someone/somethings legs.

It is a wide winging sort of punch you wind up and throw at odd angles like you are throwing a bolo.

The term should actually be bola but Americans were lazy and changed it to bolo.

you're wrong , bud.

[Don Flamenco]

yeah... its based on a filipino cutting tool/weapon called the "Bolo"

That's not a bolo. This is a bolo. It's basically a machete

[The Gambler1981]

you're wrong , bud.

Nope that is correct.

[WhoreUs]

Nope that is correct.

people credit ceferino garcia for that term.

his story is the same as the story abut kid gavilan using a machete to cut down sugar canes.

using a bolo in the rice fields would be the same movement.

[The Gambler1981]

people credit ceferino garcia for that term.

his story is the same as the story abut kid gavilan using a machete to cut down sugar canes.

using a bolo in the rice fields would be the same movement.

Incorrect, boxing writers came up with the term.