Does BoxingScene know body shots are an awesome offensive weapon?

[Lion81]

I also feel a good body shot begins to take it's toll and can do severe permanent body damage (think Chavez vs Meldric Taylor) over a good jab. UNLESS there is a cut...

[Rayzah]

Jabs>Body shot.....ur jabs it you stick...sets everything up.....measures distance...first line of offense...Jabs keep your opponent busy and force them to play defense and creates the possibly to go to the body.....Jab all day....you throw a right hand i can see it, you put i nice jab before it and it can cause problems.

[HitmanTommy]

I voted body shots are superior because a wicked body punch is more hurtful than a stiff jab to the face. But it varies a lot depending on who is throwing the jabs or body shots. Body punchers like Spence, Canelo, GGG and Rigo can knock a boxer out with one well placed bomb to the body. Other guys go to the body a lot but their body punches are not that hard or effective. Some boxers use a jab that is just a tap. Some boxers have a smashing ramrod head snapping jab that is a real power punch that hurts their opponent and keeps him rattled and off balance. So it depends on who is throwing these jabs or body punches and how good they are at it. The great Ali seldom threw body punches but he jabbed the hell out of his opponents.

Yep. Remember that wicked right body punch Tyson hit Holyfield with in the 5th round of their first fight? Holyfield was legitimately hurt for a good 10-15 seconds.

[AKAcronym]

Canelo threw a lot of body shots in the 2nd fignt with GGG, but Gennady actually caught quite a bit of them. A good amount didn't even land. His jab kept landing so of course he's going to keep throwing them. And his jabs are solid. Still wish he threw more body shots. There was one he threw in the 8th that literally moved Canelo. What's done is done though. He wasn't going to get the win. In a months time, Canelo signed his contract. They had that planned even before the fight fight happened.

[DaBeastO]

He won because he won. Not because of Vegas or whatever conspiracy bullshiiit people have.

clenelo didnt win any of the two fights against ggg. are you delusional enough to deny that clenelo gets favorited heavily by judges. It's corruption plain and simple.

[GrandpaBernard]

body shots can do major damage even without big power behind the

[Floyd is TBE]

I never met a good boxer who didn't consider the jab the most important punch in boxing

[sicko]

NO! Body Work gets overlooked big time by not just The Fake Hardcore Boxing Fans but Boxing MEDIA, Boxing Announcers and "So Called Boxing Experts" as well but it is the most one of the most EFFECTIVE punches in boxing also a High % Punch

Teddy Atlas have some incredible analysis on why "Going To The Basement" as he likes to call it is so important which I'm sure he learned from working under Cus D'Amato. Don't have great TEACHERS in boxing anymore, no more Cus D'Amato, Manuel Steward guys like that. Now it is just mostly Trainers who want to maintain friendship with their fighter and not get fired I guess

[abracada]

Just asking because people seem to think Jabs = body shots or are even superior.

IMO, Body shots > Jabs

Are BoxingScene posters aware of this, because it seems as though they aren't.

Judges will give body shots more respect than jabs when scoring a fight. Jabs are a tool to find range, and help set up body work or combinations.

They have several uses and are a great tool, but by themselves they get you few points. Unless it's the amateurs, but who gives a damn about the amateurs.

Body shots are an investment for the late rounds

[Citizen Koba]

I voted jabs to get this party started. It depends if the body shots have no effect and doesn't hurt or slow up the other guy then they count as punches not some kind of superior weapon. The same for jabs. If the jabs don't confuse, disrupt or force the other guy to stop punching they are just scoring blows like the body punches I mentioned. The head is the primary scoring area for most judges. With both punches you have too look at the effects of the punch and are they doing what the boxer intends if you want to give them more credit. On one hand body shots are usually harder but most judges pay more attention to head punches. The majority of jabs are to the head. Larry Holmes had one of the best jabs in history. He used it to set up his offense and confuse his opponent. If you want to see how important jabs can be look at Larry's fights.

This ^. Dudes invest to the body in the hope of gaining advantage down the line.. they pay dividends by tiring and weakening an opponent, but in and of themselves they ain't somehow automatically scored as more significant than other punches, even if their cumulative effect may be more devastating.