Best Body Puncher?

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(07-28-2014 02:31 PM)Jason Bourne Wrote:  

(07-27-2014 11:42 AM)Decagon Wrote:  Roy Jones almost never went to the body. He's best known for knocking Virgil Hill out with a bodyshot he set up with the right cross. When Ring magazine's poll named him Body Puncher of the Year, the joke was that he only threw one bodyshot that entire year. You can't compare him to Julio Cesar Chavez or Eddie Booker.

Please!!! You done said it your own damn self! Roy was BODY PUNCHER OF THE YEAR!!! You shoulda stopped that post right there!!! NEXT!!!

Yeah, but you missed the part where he said "joke" being he only threw 1 shot to the body.

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Agreed on all points above about Jones/Tarver III.

To me, that was Jones' saddest moment. Not him getting KO by Tarver II. Not him twitching at the hands of Johnson. Not him crying in Korea back in '88. Not even his way past prime KO losses to 2 lesser profile dudes a few years back.

The way Jones just "gave up" against Tarver III, a fight that he was winning and easily outclassing Tarver in every way when he chose to... avenging that KO loss would have been huge; he'd have been 2-1 over Tarver instead of 1-2 and could have chalked that 1 loss up to a fluke punch. Had Jones continued to fight Tarver the way he did in that clip above, he actually stands a good chance of even stopping Tarver from cumulative damage stemming from that body assault.

Such a shame.