Which heavy works the body best?
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Winter king
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Which heavy works the body best?
I can tell tons of people in the lower weight classes that are great body punchers put somehow the top of the foodchain heavies dont seem to put much focus on those crisp body punches. I could be wrong. How do you think is good though?
Re: Which heavy works the body best?
Fury probably. He was sending to a canvas with body punches quite often at the early stages of his career. He was providing good inside boxing then. Later he became more keen an outside work, but he has shown great inside game just recently against Wilder.
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Winter king
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Re: Which heavy works the body best?
True but I dont know if hi body punch knock down happened because it was that hard or because wilder was exhausted.
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Dillian Whyte maybe but that's probably a reflection of how few heavyweights are effective body punchers these days, rather than any specialist expertise on Dill's part. Mentions for Usyk, Povetkin, Fury when he feels inclined. I'm not putting him forward as a notable body puncher but I have in the past been surprised By Kubrat Pulev's left hook to the body probably because I'd previously considered him exclusively a head-hunter.
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Counter-puncher
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Re: Which heavy works the body best?
Helenius vs Kownacki had couple of great body shots in it.
I guess the title needs to go to Whyte tho.
I guess the title needs to go to Whyte tho.
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I don't know if Helenius is in line for the "Which heavy works the body best award" although it's quite possible, but I'd certainly put him up for the "Which heavy is the most difficult to predict the result award"
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Boxerbeetle
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Re: Which heavy works the body best?
X2. When he can be bothered, anyway.
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margaret thatcher
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Re: Which heavy works the body best?
Helenius favourite punch might be the long right hook to the body, hws today throw so few body shots that simply by virture of going to the body regularly someone is a notable example. Fury did have a lot of good body work earlier as mentioned. He won his debut by body shot ko and has put a number of guys down with body shots. He used to be an inside fighter with uppercuts and body work as much as anything. And Chis does dig in there as well.
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Jeff_lacy_ko
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Re: Which heavy works the body best?
Vladyslav Sirenko
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I think Dillion Whyte is not that great a body puncher. Yes he does throw them more than a lot of heavies, but I haven't seen guys drop from one, maybe a cumulative thing though.
If you call yourself something ( The Bodysnatcher) long enough, some of it rubs off. I've yet to see concussive body shots from him at he higher levels. He drilled Parker with hooks to the body for half the fight, and didn't drop him, same against Helenius who wasn't in A1 shape for that one either.
If you call yourself something ( The Bodysnatcher) long enough, some of it rubs off. I've yet to see concussive body shots from him at he higher levels. He drilled Parker with hooks to the body for half the fight, and didn't drop him, same against Helenius who wasn't in A1 shape for that one either.
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Just relying on memory here, but I believe I saw Oscar Rivas launch and all out attack on the body, round after round in a recent fight. What I remember though was that it wasn’t of great effect.
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tiny_acres
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Re: Which heavy works the body best?
Though I find Chisora to be vastly overrated.
He is probably the best body puncher today
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Jeff_lacy_ko
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Re: Which heavy works the body best?
You disagree?
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Jarell Miller is the last blobby standing, and that is only because he is not fighting. Nothing he does in the ring puts him in a "best of" category.
Edit: he does have the most different PED's on a pre fight test- so that is a "best of" for 2019 at least.
Re: Which heavy works the body best?
Chisora works the body alot. He's up there..
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margaret thatcher
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Drum kit noise with cymbal.
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Winter king
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Re: Which heavy works the body best?
I made this post because i was wondering if there was a less gigantic heavy I mean somewhere betwee. 6foot and 6'3 with good ring generalship and crisp head body combos I think he could murder most of the top 25 because they are so used to this modern head hunting giants.