Left hook to the body: Boxing`s underrated under shot!

[Kimmy]

Just crossed my mind, what an underrated punch it really is. Just recently both Bernard Hopkins and Arturo Gatti won two of their biggest fights with this punch ( Over oscar and Dorin respectively ).
Marco A Barrera lives and dies by this shot and Juilo C Chavez in his prime used to cause all sort of mayham with it.
The old boxing expression is the punch that KO`s you is the one you don`t see coming and the left hook to the body is certainly in this catagory.
Apart from being a KO punch it also works as a wear down shot, to weaken an opponent for later in the fight.
Out of interest does anyone know any big fights apart from the ones i mentioned that were ended with this shot?

[xrhythmxnxbluesx]

i love throwin the left hook to the body... 1 2 to the top and end it with that hook to the body...

[Kimmy]

i love throwin the left hook to the body... 1 2 to the top and end it with that hook to the body...

Evander employed this combo to Rid**** Bowe in their second fight to great effect. Throwing the one - two convinces the opponent to either defend or counter over the top so the left hook to the body is not prepared for. Simular with Oscar Vs Hopkins last year. Hopkins was loading up with right hands over the top then ****! Hook to the body and over!

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The left hook downstairs was Ricardo "Finito" Lopez favorite punch, he mastered this punch and did a lot of damage with it.

Johnny Tapia kayoed Cesar Soto with the very same punch.

[Run]

Johnny Tapia kayoed Cesar Soto with the very same punch.

Sure did.

And the best left hook to the body award goes to Micky Ward IMO. He has hurt so many fighters in the past with that punch, that I lost count. He bombed the hell out of Steve Quinones with that punch, and knocked him out in the first round with it. He is a ****ing master when it comes to body punching, and Quinonez also said he had trouble training after receiving it. Shea Neary, and Emanuel Augustus recieved it the hard way also. He brutalized Emmanuel with that same punch at least 75 times.

The suprising thing.....was his fight with Judah. He landed the left hook to the body a couple of times, and it did not even seem to phase him. I suppose physical conditioning plays a serious role in taking that punch. I dont think people can simply "Take it to the body, or not". That might come with building muscles in the torso, or your relative position when you recieve the punch. Micky Ward would make an excellent mob cronie who jumps people when they enter their house.

Fat T sends his regards....followed by the left hook to the liver.



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[m00ks]

Gerry Cooney had a nasty left hook to the body. Nasty Nasty Nasty.

[Kimmy]

An excellent fight to watch which shows the left hook being mastered is Barrera Vs Richie Wenton from 1998 ( on Hamed/McCullough undercard ).
Wenton wasn`t top flight but you see how the left hook just drains the will and fight out of a man, brutal!

[Round 1]

The left hook to the body is more damaging when the person receiving it is exhaling at the time of impact.

[Bozo_no no]

The suprising thing.....was his fight with Judah. He landed the left hook to the body a couple of times, and it did not even seem to phase him.

Actually, I saw Judah interviewed a few years ago (before the Tszyu fight) and he said a Ward left hook to the body in the 11th round of their fight was the worst he had been hurt in his entire career to that point.


Good call on Ward though. He had one of the best left hooks to the body of all time.

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[QUOTE=Kimmy]
Marco A Barrera lives and dies by this shot.

Barrera KO'd Luiz Freitas [Acelinos brother] in the very first round, it was the only power punch of the fight.