Best arm punchers?

[Blacc Jesus]

Who would go on this list?

[Manassa]

As opposed to boxers who punch using their legs?

[RAMPAGE0017]

Ali comes to mind....

[Blacc Jesus]

As opposed to boxers who punch using their legs?
You know what the fuck I'm talking about.

[JohnThomas1]

Bazooka Limon and Mustafa Hamsho were good arm punchers. Many would have you believe Foreman was an arm puncher if you want to go the power route.

[mcvey]

Who would go on this list?
George Foreman,he put guys down without getting his body behind punches on several occassions.

[NickHudson]

Hagler.

[ron u.k.]

foreman

[Holmes' Jab]

Marciano. Brutal to an opponents blood vessels. :good

[red cobra]

Bazooka Limon and Mustafa Hamsho were good arm punchers. Many would have you believe Foreman was an arm puncher if you want to go the power route.
Bazooka Limon was a great arm puncher. I remember seeing him against Rolando Navarette back in the 80's, and remember how he was getting his clock cleaned round after round, then in the 10th, I think, he just swarmed all over Navarette in a great come from behind effort and ko'd him. That's all he was basically, an arm puncer, but a great one.

[Dempsey1238]

Marciano was no arm puncher, he put his whole body behind his shots.

[Duodenum]

Foreman and Hagler were indeed described as "arm punchers" during their careers, as was Bazooka Limon. Another who I remember Gil Clancy descibing as an "arm puncher" was Matthew Saad Muhammad. Clancy also attached this designation to Euzebio Pedroza during his US television debut against Rocky Lockridge.

When Duran decisioned Minchillo, the color analyst speculated that the eventual difference in the contest might be the fact that while Duran used leverage behind his blows, Minchillo was an arm puncher. Nonetheless, Luigi went on to have a pretty fair career at the world class level.

[Holmes' Jab]

Marciano was no arm puncher, he put his whole body behind his shots.

Fair enough. I wasn't refering to his punching technique or the weight he put behind his shots, just that he hit opponents on their arms pretty frequently.

He employed this tastic to make opponents drop their guard, it worked very effectively. :hey

[bulakenyo]

^^
Miguel Cotto copied Marciano's trick when he made the Italian guy Branco(?) quit due to a severely battered arms.

[bulakenyo]

Was Wayne McCullough an arm puncher?

I heard some commentators say Erik Morales more often was an arm puncher also.

[Doppleganger]

If you mean guys who punch without putting their hips/legs into the punch then you're asking who was the best puncher utilizing bad technique, which is exactly what arm punching is. In other words it's a rather silly question lol.

[Mantequilla]

Guys like Hagler and Saad were only occasionally arm punchers.

Most of the time they got sufficient weight behind their shots and punched relatively correctly.

A real consistent arm puncher would be someone like Mate Parlov, Chuck Davey or Calzaghe when he has hand problems.

[Dempsey1238]

Davey was a arm puncher, no weight behind his shots in the Galvian fight at all. I am kinda of shock that Davey gave the Kid some problems in the early rounds.

[Sizzle]

Armpunching can be effective.

1/ Conserves energy
2/ Generally a quicker motion

Although there are fairly powerful armpunchers around, I don't know of an instance where amrpunching is actually MORE powerful than putting bodyweight behind the shot.

Mayweather comes to mind for being an effective armpuncher, particularly at the higher weights where there is no way he's going to stop his opponents anyway.

[China_hand_Joe]

Arm punching should be a part of ever boxer's arsenal.
People don't use it often enough.

[C. M. Clay II]

Maxie Rosenbloom:good

[Manassa]

You know what the fuck I'm talking about.

Alright, don't have a cow.

[brooklyn1550]

Marvin Hagler wasn't usually an arm puncher. He did throw arm punches every now and then, but most of his shots, he would get his whole body into them.

Erik Morales and Joe Calzaghe come to mind

[divac]

Pernell Whitaker.

Vitali Klitchko.

[bulakenyo]

In Jin Chi looks like a windmill when he punches.
Barely any body movement as he smothers an opponent and he rains down a shitload of hard slapping shots and short hooks and uppercuts.

[mexman]

Pipino Cuevas threw those big loopy punches. He had terrible technique but nonetheless his punches, when they landed, were devastating.

[brooklyn1550]

Pernell Whitaker

Whitaker put his body into his shots and snapped them out...an arm puncher he was not

[RoccoMarciano]

Valuev - not one of the best, but that is about all he is capable of throwing.

[Dempsey1238]

Maxie Rosenbloom:good

He was more of a slapper though.

[divac]

Whitaker put his body into his shots and snapped them out...an arm puncher he was not

Pernell Whitaker was an arm puncher in every sense of the word.

He was always in position to defend. He was an active puncher, and you dont throw shots with your body and leverage behind them without leaving yourself vulnerable.

Of course most fighters will at one point in the fight put some leverage in his shot, but for the most part, Pernell arm punched, and quickly brought it back to defend!

Winky Wright is another defensive fighter who did the same.
Its the reason why they dont have many knockouts.

[zivic1941]

Matthew Saad Muhammad.

Often, he did not distribute his body weight behind a punch at all. He was so strong he'd knock you out with a punch that didn't appear to have leverage on it. If you ever get a chance, watch his uppercut on Lotte Mwale.

[India_Foot_Bob]

Arm punching should be a part of ever boxer's arsenal.
People don't use it often enough.

...Which is why girls are so dominant in boxing -fullstop-

[Duodenum]

Pipino Cuevas threw those big loopy punches. He had terrible technique but nonetheless his punches, when they landed, were devastating.Ringside reporters covering his matches for KO Magazine during his career described Cuevas as, "The definitive leverage puncher, though he occasionally throws roundhouses." (For whatever that's worth. I mainly bought KO for the pictures, and because I was able to start with their inaugural issue.)

Gil Clancy denigrated Pedroza's bolo shots to Rocky Lockridge's body as "arm punches," but Eusebio did an awful lot of damage with them during his career, nonetheless. (He certainly slowed Lockridge down with those bodyblows, as they headed into the championship rounds. Lockridge simply didn't have enough steam left to attempt a rally, despite being in excellent condition.) This first meeting between Pedroza and Lockridge was actually one of El Alacran's cleaner performances.

[ironchamp]

Ali - he had a tendancy to throw alot of slapping shots. I tend to think he was probably one of the most notorious arm punchers who used that method effectively by varying the power he unleashes on his punches, setting comfort levels with opponents only to sit down on his punches and produce a late stoppage.