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10 of the best body shot knockouts

George Gigney counts down 10 of the best body shot knockouts

George Gigney

25th October, 2016

10 of the best body shot knockouts
  1. Roy Jones Jnr ko 4 Virgil Hill (1998)

Hill could do nothing to prevent a lethal right hand slamming into his ribcage in the fourth.

  1. Micky Ward ko 7 Alfonso Sanchez (1997)

Delivering his bread-and-butter manoeuvre, Ward touched Sanchez upstairs before folding him in two with a left hook to the liver.

  1. Arturo Gatti ko 2 Leonard Dorin (2004)

Rather than the gruelling affair many expected, Gatti dispatched Dorin with relative ease with a left hook.

  1. Bernard Hopkins ko 9 Oscar De La Hoya (2004)

“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d get stopped by a body shot,” said De La Hoya after Hopkins left him writhing on the canvas.

  1. Ricky Hatton ko 4 Jose Luis Castillo (2007)

The teak-tough Mexican turned away and took a knee when Hatton punished him with a left hook.

  1. Canelo Alvarez ko 9 Liam Smith (2016)

After controlling proceedings for eight rounds, Canelo produced the third and final knockdown of the night with a monstrous left hook that was audible from ringside.

  1. Gerry Cooney ko 1 Ron Lyle (1980)

The towering Cooney opened Lyle up with a brace of uppercuts before flooring him for good with a left hook.

  1. Marco Antonio Barrera ko 3 Jesse Benavides (1996)

A sharp combo ending with a particularly brutal left hook was enough to put Benavides away.

  1. Gennady Golovkin ko 3 Matthew Macklin (2013)

The Kazakh wrecking ball left Macklin gasping for air with a bone-crunching left hook.

  1. Gerald McClellan ko 1 James Williamson (1990)

A looping left hook just as Williamson was backing off instantly floored him and had him screaming in pain.

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