Is the hip-bone a legal target for a punch?

Seems some peoples' hip bones are higher than others', meaning sometimes the body protectors still expose the hip bone, so would that be an illegal punch? Or right on the hip bone even if it is covered by the protector? Foreman and Marciano among many othrs have thrown that punch all their careers, never saw a warning I can remember.

also wtf is this??! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXLqqaroEuM

The scoring area is from the waist line up, on the front of the torso and head, not the top of the shorts, otherwise Lennox Lewis's waist line was just under his tits!

You'd risk breaking your wrist by purposefully hitting it.

yeah Lewis sure kept that protector pretty high didnt he.

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Originally Posted by ross

The scoring area is from the waist line up, on the front of the torso and head, not the top of the shorts, otherwise Lennox Lewis's waist line was just under his tits!

You'd risk breaking your wrist by purposefully hitting it.

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Gatti broke his hand in the third fight with Ward hitting him on the hip.

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Originally Posted by Master

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Originally Posted by ross

The scoring area is from the waist line up, on the front of the torso and head, not the top of the shorts, otherwise Lennox Lewis's waist line was just under his tits!

You'd risk breaking your wrist by purposefully hitting it.

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Gatti broke his hand in the third fight with Ward hitting him on the hip.

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Foreman used that punch generously. That weird "amateurish" right he would throw that either bluntly exploded on the hip joint or barely made it another inch around and thudded into the kidney. OUCH.