Has Body Punching Become a Lost Art?

[Primera]

marquez, mayweather cotto etc

[Mastermind24]

its not


altho its gone in the HW division, imo.

[Jerub Baal]

to a certain degree, i mean i hate when a fighter has another guy hurt and when he goes in for the kill all he does is head hunt and the guy that is hurt is able to survive the round just by keeping his hands up. if the fighter would have went to the body some to bring the other guys hands down he could have got some clean shots in up stairs.

Yeah man, I know exactly what you mean.

A guy this happens to often is Pacquiao, he'll hurt someone with a body shot badly - and then swarm them with head punches. The Pac-Morales 1 fight for example - I remember Pac hurting Morales badly with a body shot in the 2nd round, and then he rarely went back to that punch throughout the fight...