Ever been dropped by a body shot?

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I hadn't until tonight. Damn it hurt. You always see it during fights, the guy will step back, pause, then crumple. That was what it was like for me. I was sparring a guy who is about 5-6 inches taller than me and outweighs me by a fair amount. What's worse is that he is better than me. They say the best weapon against a southy is a straight right and he was hammering me with it, so I started to focus on protecting my head then he threw a right which a blocked and anticipated the left hook... He threw it but to the body and I was caught standing tall.

Well it was a definate learning experience, I tell you that.
 
Oh god yes.

IIRC the first time I got dropped by one in practice I really didn't feel like sparring anymore. I remember for like a month after I would keep my a hands a little too low just out of fear of getting blasted again.

Really opened my eyes.
 
yep :)

i was sparring my coach and he kept getting me with liver shots, at first he was going light but since i kept making that same mistake of opening too much he blasted me hard. it took about 2 seconds for the full pain to come in. I didnt drop at first but he saw i was hurt so he rushed me with more body shots after a few more shots i dropped to the floor in pain.

It was the worst feeling and i didnt want to get back up but i had to go spar again like 15 minutes after. It taught me to keep a good guard though
 
Makes you realize how tough the guys in the cage are. Not only are they getting hit cleanly by a body punch, but they're getting hit by highly trained martial artists in peak physical condition who are throwing punches meant to inflict damage.

On a sidebar, have you ever taken a heel kick to the kidney? Going back and just watching Dan Severn take heel kick after heel kick from Royce Gracie made me piss blood for a week.
 
Yeah, body shots are so ridiculously under used in MMA.
Hit a fighter with a good shot to the face, they'll smile and try and hit you back even harder. Hit him with a good shot to the body and they won't want to fight anymore.
 
I remember a few years back I was sparring with my instructor and took a knee to the solar plexus that dropped me and had me feeling like I couldn't breathe for a good 5 seconds... felt like the longest 5 seconds of my life too :)
 
ColonelAngus1 said:
Makes you realize how tough the guys in the cage are. Not only are they getting hit cleanly by a body punch, but they're getting hit by highly trained martial artists in peak physical condition who are throwing punches meant to inflict damage.
On a sidebar, have you ever taken a heel kick to the kidney? Going back and just watching Dan Severn take heel kick after heel kick from Royce Gracie made me piss blood for a week.
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this-

people forget how tough you have to be to effectively absorb even avg bodyshots and continue to fight; last time i sparred i got blasted w/digging left hook to the body, i was done.

then on the kicking side i was slipping shots and looking to come in w/the lead right guy slipped it, pivoted and raked my body w/a kick to the body.

and last time i sparred a karate dude, he kneed me w/the "colliding knee"; stopped me dead in my tracks then swept me machida style...lol

so at least three times..... lol ...sucked but a good experience nonetheless
 
Many grapplers dismiss body shots from punches and kicks thinking they'll just wear it and get inside. I used to think like that until I felt the power people can unleash with punches, kicks and knees.
 
last time i got caught with a good body kick i thought i was gonna die...then my instructor held me like he was gonna perform the heimlich maneuever on me but instead of doing anything he told me to scream at the top of my longs and i did...the first couple of yells ended up coming out as more of a groan but i couldnt help it...then around the 3rd or 4th i got my breath back i weird way to get rid of the pain but it worked.
 
RightHooksRus86 said:
last time i got caught with a good body kick i thought i was gonna die...then my instructor held me like he was gonna perform the heimlich maneuever on me but instead of doing anything he told me to scream at the top of my longs and i did...the first couple of yells ended up coming out as more of a groan but i couldnt help it...then around the 3rd or 4th i got my breath back i weird way to get rid of the pain but it worked.
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I had the same experience, weird cure.
 
dr.feelgood said:
Yeah, body shots are so ridiculously under used in MMA.
Hit a fighter with a good shot to the face, they'll smile and try and hit you back even harder. Hit him with a good shot to the body and they won't want to fight anymore.
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This is so stupid.
A good shot won't make anyone smile.
 
I was dropped with a series of knees to the midsection during sparring and it's like everyone says, for a brief second, you think you can fight through it before the pain comes back even worse and you just fold.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you're hit so hard that you begin to rethink your career, like, "Maybe I wasn't cut out to be a fighter?" I got hit with the first knee, let out a little yelp, that thought crossed my mind, and before I could finish it, I was hit with like three more knees before hitting the canvass, out of breath, and with my blood pressure low as hell.
 
jlagman said:
I was dropped with a series of knees to the midsection during sparring and it's like everyone says, for a brief second, you think you can fight through it before the pain comes back even worse and you just fold.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you're hit so hard that you begin to rethink your career, like, "Maybe I wasn't cut out to be a fighter?" I got hit with the first knee, let out a little yelp, that thought crossed my mind, and before I could finish it, I was hit with like three more knees before hitting the canvass, out of breath, and with my blood pressure low as hell.
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Well, considering fighting is a hobby for me, no :icon_chee
 
Yup, got hit 3 times in the liver in one sparring session. First one I was able to not blink at, but it hurt, second one I winced and by the time my wince was complete my man was coming at me like Wolverine on the covers of old X-Men issues. This is the kid that did it:



I'm pretty proud of the fact that that's the only legit time I've ever been down in sparring (lots of slips and rasslin' matches that ended in throws), and that it wasn't a head-shot.
 
When I first began boxing, I had always loved the idea of body punching. It seems to be a very cold and clinical way of pulling apart a person's will to be in there with you, and it was something that appealed to all of the old-timers and commentators I had come across. I thought it was something cool, but never really put too much stock into how effective it was; I had started to think maybe proper body punching had faded as a tool in the typical fighters arsenal because it was not actually that effective, or that defensive techniques had developed enough to phase it out. After all, my elbows covered most of my prime body targets when I had a good guard up, right?

I had an eye-opening experience similar to the TS's, and I also had the pleasure of seeing 2 guys throw up in the ring between groans, and one of our junior WWs, Jerome Gabriel, sent a MW fighter screaming (well, limping) to the washroom before he shit his pants with a focused body attack.

I'm also not particularly gifted with power, and so I have a GREAT appreciate for the placement > power reality of body punching. I don't have to have dynamite in my hands to hurt you, and that's a godsend.
 
I had an eye-opening experience similar to the TS's, and I also had the pleasure of seeing 2 guys throw up in the ring between groans, and one of our junior WWs, Jerome Gabriel, sent a MW fighter screaming (well, limping) to the washroom before he shit his pants with a focused body attack.
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You ain't Boxin' until you've swallowed vomit from your mouthpiece to finish a round.
 
Yes. Mind you, I was untrained going up against a guy who had an amateur boxing career. I consider myself to be a mentally tough dude growing up in the hood having been jumped, stabbed and shot at. And of course plenty of street fights. I played football through all kinds of injuries. But that body shot...it's debilitating. I'll say no amount of mental toughness could have overcame it. My mind was saying continue fighting but my body just wouldn't move...I was left crunched over grunting.


With that said, it definitely hurt, but it didn't hurt that bad. It was just my body wouldn't function.
 
Ive been caught with some wicked straight rights to the chest, as im a Southpaw, so the better guys throw it often, whats even worse is after taking it a couple of times, I go to block it, and get hit with a left uppercut, bullshit.

The only time I went down from a body shot was when I was kinda pushed into sparring, when I really didnt want to, and I kinda let myself get wailed ona bit, and after eating a couple of big body shots, I voluntarily went down to a knee, just didnt feel like sparring that day I guess, and at the time, not brave enough to decline, as I was still new.
 
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