After tangling with a pro boxer as a 17-year-old, Bellator MMA lightweight Tim Welch learned some valuable firsthand information: Body shots hurt like hell. So when the 23-year-old Montana native made his pro MMA debut a few years later, he remembered that lesson and incorporated the knowledge into his training. “Being a young kid and getting beat up by a pro boxer at age 17 helped me,” he said. “He’d drop me to the body over and over and just generally lay a good beating on me.
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Bellator 113′s Tim Welch discusses the art (and pain) of body shots – MMA Junkie