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Watched the 1st Harding/Andries fight earlier,superb fight and the 1st time i'd seen either guy box,what impressed me most about Jeff in the fight was his superb body punching,especially seeing as he was so tall

Any other good big/tall body punchers?

Hearns and Bowe are two.

Arguello and Pedrosa would be the other two obvious ones that come to mind

Depends what you define as tall? Andries greatest opponent was Tommy Hearns who was an underestimated body puncher, great left to the body. So did Ezzard Charles.

Others that I can think of straight away, Joe Frazier, George Chuvalo, at lighter weights but still quite tall there was Arguello, Pedroza and obviously McCallum. Historically Bob Fitzsimmons is considered to be the first great body puncher, he was quite tall. More recently Paul Williams had good body attack, so did DLH and Corrales. Hopkins as well, especially against Keith Holmes and his knock out of DLH.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:Hearns and Bowe are two.

Hearns vs schuler ...wicked

Hearns was 1 of the 1st that came to my mind too,Arguello is another good shout

Sandy Saddler, Ike Williams, Ioka

Michael Watson

Enzo Mac

Michael Nunn

Gerald McClellan

Mark Breland

Tyson Fury

Carlos Zarate

Erik Morales

Antonio Esparagoza

Michael Moorer (tall at light heavy)

Derry Matthews

Callum Smith

Jaime Garza

Cooney was a good body puncher.

palooka wrote:Michael Watson

Enzo Mac

Michael Nunn

Gerald McClellan

Mark Breland

Tyson Fury

Carlos Zarate

Erik Morales

Antonio Esparagoza

Michael Moorer (tall at light heavy)

Derry Matthews

Callum Smith

Jaime Garza

Great list palooka,Fury and Smith are great shouts

Thanks, Barry - the best body puncher I've seen was Chavez Snr though Zarate hospitalised a couple of opponents, Hearns had been mentioned by a few and he was wicked. Moorer on the way up was just an incredibly hard puncher. Henry Wharton had a big left hook and Calzaghe did some damage, he'd mix the punches up and drop a sneaky left hand in - he hurt Kessler to the body.

palooka wrote:Thanks, Barry - the best body puncher I've seen was Chavez Snr though Zarate hospitalised a couple of opponents, Hearns had been mentioned by a few and he was wicked. Moorer on the way up was just an incredibly hard puncher. Henry Wharton had a big left hook and Calzaghe did some damage, he'd mix the punches up and drop a sneaky left hand in - he hurt Kessler to the body.

Ive been watching the Harding/Andries fights this week,just watched the rematch tonight and Moorer was ringside supporting Dennis,as you probably know both men were trained by Manny Steward

Great fights BTW i'll watch the 3rd fight tomorrow

Hughie Fury likes the body punch whether he can do it at world level is something we will have to see?

handsofstone wrote:

palooka wrote:Thanks, Barry - the best body puncher I've seen was Chavez Snr though Zarate hospitalised a couple of opponents, Hearns had been mentioned by a few and he was wicked. Moorer on the way up was just an incredibly hard puncher. Henry Wharton had a big left hook and Calzaghe did some damage, he'd mix the punches up and drop a sneaky left hand in - he hurt Kessler to the body.

Ive been watching the Harding/Andries fights this week,just watched the rematch tonight and Moorer was ringside supporting Dennis,as you probably know both men were trained by Manny Steward

Great fights BTW i'll watch the 3rd fight tomorrow

Those three fights are incredible. If you stuck them in the ring together a hundred times you'd not be able
To predict the outcome other than war. It's almost like all three fights are the perfect continuation of each other. They literally pick up where they left off.

What's odd for me is the end result of
The third fight. It was razor thin yet the loser's top flight career almost died yet the winner's carried on.

evrenb wrote:Cooney was a good body puncher.

Yes he dug to the body very well. Good call

Crisanto Espana

Raul Perez

Ricky Burns

handsofstone wrote:Watched the 1st Harding/Andries fight earlier,superb fight and the 1st time i'd seen either guy box,what impressed me most about Jeff in the fight was his superb body punching,especially seeing as he was so tall

Any other good big/tall body punchers?

5'11 1/2" is hardly tall for a light heavyweight - Andries was shorter and fought low, so I guess Harding would have looked tall by comparison.

palooka wrote:Crisanto Espana

Raul Perez

Good calls. Cesar Bazan was a very good body puncher and in-fighter, too. Just lacked durability.

jezzamundo wrote:

handsofstone wrote:Watched the 1st Harding/Andries fight earlier,superb fight and the 1st time i'd seen either guy box,what impressed me most about Jeff in the fight was his superb body punching,especially seeing as he was so tall

Any other good big/tall body punchers?

5'11 1/2" is hardly tall for a light heavyweight - Andries was shorter and fought low, so I guess Harding would have looked tall by comparison.

I was going to cite the best of them, Mr Mike McCallum, but he's 5' 11 1/2" too, so I thought he didn't qualify as tall, as to have to be 6' 00" to be officially tall!!

Sandy Saddler was supposed to be a master body puncher and very tall for his weight.

At 5'8" Danny "Little Red" Lopez was tall for a featherweight and all you have to do is watch his second fight with David "Poison" Kotey to learn all you need to know about him and body-punching.