Low blows. Why are they bad?

[AdamGB]

Forget your balls for a second... push your hands in to your stomach... there's a relatively thick layer of muscle over the top of a fairly strong organ in the stomach... now have a dig around the front of your pelvis... really try to dig you fingers in... there are intestines... the bladder... urethra... spleen all sorts down there with little to no protection just waiting to be burst or prolapsed by an impact... it's full of nerves so that anything touching there gives a stong "GET THE FUCK OFF" signal to your brain. Not a nice place to get hit and if you could just wail away down there (even if nut shots were still illegal) you'd have a lot of shit, short or tepid/timid fights and a tonne of internally damaged fighters.

p.s. I can tell you first hand that unless your cup has been personally fitted that there/s a good chance that it may absorb some of the blow... there's all so a good chance that it will be too small etc and CRUSH YOUR BALLS.

Even assuming that the cup does fit... you'll probably still feel it a bit... I'd rather touch a shot to my contracted abdominal muscles than to me soft, saggy nuts. just saying.

[Kev]

Forget your balls for a second... push your hands in to your stomach... there's a relatively thick layer of muscle over the top of a fairly strong organ in the stomach... now have a dig around the front of your pelvis... really try to dig you fingers in... there are intestines... the bladder... urethra... spleen all sorts down there with little to no protection just waiting to be burst or prolapsed by an impact.. Not a nice place to get hit and f you could just wail away down there (even if nut shots were still illegal) you'd have a lot of shit, short or tepid/timid fights and a tonne of internally damaged fighters.

Ah, cool answer Adam. So the most exposed organs are below where the belt line would be? That makes sense if that's the case.

[AdamGB]

Yeah... All of the vital stuff... heart, brain, lungs etc are all encapsulated in either the skull or ribs, hard bone frames.

The stuff below the waste isn't as vital in terms of immediate survival, so yeah... I guess it got the short end of the stick in the "where abouts in the skeleton should we be placed" game.

You're not going to out right die from trauma to those organs (not right away anyway) but can still mess you up in the long run.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

y'know about kidney shots being illegal right?

[AdamGB]

Pretty easy to do on the ref's blind side though.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Pretty easy to do on the ref's blind side though.

lol my reply was meant for bilbo, you beat me to it.

[amiller]

Boxers are like premiere league footballer and fake the injury to get the opponent deducted a point or even disqualified. It is simply cheating, they feel nothing and should not be allowed to get away with it. Remember Bernard Hopkins against Galzaghe, embarrassing.

You don't know then.

[marbleheadmaui]

y'know about kidney shots being illegal right?

That is a much more recent thing. Low blows have been illegal for 275 years. Kidney shots only about 70 or so.

[chinchekked]

Oh the irony

[Howlin Mad Missy]

y'know about kidney shots being illegal right?

That is a much more recent thing. Low blows have been illegal for 275 years. Kidney shots only about 70 or so.

Seriously? who gives a fuck how long ago it's been illegal

[0james0]

Even with a cup, the cup tends to dig in. I played cricket and got one in the nuts while wearing a cup and it still hurt like hell. Clipped a ball and also bruised the area around it.

I cant say I'm a fan though of the shorts and protector near the arm pit fashion that many boxers sport.

[bcollins]

I don't know anything about the foul protector used in boxing, but I've been dropped more than once wearing a cup. Many of those came in training from a woman less than 5' tall who was really, really trying to get her spinning back kick into a legal target area.

[marbleheadmaui]

y'know about kidney shots being illegal right?

That is a much more recent thing. Low blows have been illegal for 275 years. Kidney shots only about 70 or so.

Seriously? who gives a fuck how long ago it's been illegal

Anybody who cares about how the sport has become the one we have today of course!

[THE THIRD MAN]

It appears that Mares has over stepped the line with these low blows, i also believe that officials and fans alike underestimate the damage that can occur during a fight due to repeated low blows. ( I am convinced it cost Tszyu against Hatton) and i have no doubt Agbeko sufferred greatly last week. I rewatched Mares V Vic and it certainly slowed Vic down by the later rounds. (Remember Golotta? the referee took no shit that night, what has happened since?)
We need some tough referees who just say enough is enough and DQ someone mid fight, but i fear promoters, HBO or Showtime don't want that result? They want a decision (controversial or not) or preferably a sensational knockout.
Being hit in the balls hurts like hell, my English forum members will tell you what it's like to be hit in the balls by a cricket ball at close to 100mph! Your down for sometime and the wife ain't touching the family jewels for a week! Boxing has rules and being hit in the balls is the big no no, it can affect you for several rounds or have you writhing in agony (see Mayweather V Judah) I want to see a clean fight and the best man win according to the rules. Without rules, you have chaos, with chaos comes disorder. I don't want to see boxing sink to the level of a Ric Flair sucker punch to the nuts!

[marbleheadmaui]

It appears that Mares has over stepped the line with these low blows, i also believe that officals and fans alike underestimate the damge that can occur during a fight due to repeated low blows. ( I am convinced it cost Tszyu against Hatton) and i have no doubt Agbeko sufferred greatly last week. I rewatched Mares V Vic and it certainly slowed Vic down by the later rounds. (Remember Golotta? the referee took no shit that night, what has happened since?)
We need some tough referees who just say enough is enough and DQ someone mid fight, but i fear promoters, HBO or Showtime don't want that result? They want a decision (controversial or not) or preferably a sensational knockout.
Being hit in the balls hurts like hell, my English forum members will tell you what it's like to be hit in the balls by a cricket ball at close to 100mph! Your down for sometime and the wife ain't touching the family jewels for a week! Boxing has rules and being hit in the balls is the big no no, it can affect you for several rounds or have you writhing in agony (see Mayweather V Judah) I want to see a clean fight and the best man win according to the rules. Without rules, you have chaos, with chaos comes disorder. I don't want to see boxing sink to the level of a Ric Flair sucker punch to the nuts!

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

(sorry, it's a reflex)

Good post.