A bolo punch is a punch used in boxing. Bolo punches are not one of the traditional boxing punches (jab, uppercut, hook and cross) and they are seldom used; much less so during a combination. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A jab is one of the three main punches used in boxing, the two others being the uppercut and the hook. ... The uppercut (sometimes also referred to as the upper), is a punch used in boxing that usually aims at the opponents chin. ... A hook is a punch in boxing. ... In boxing, a cross is a counter-punch. ...

Ceferino Garcia is said to have been the inventor of the bolo punch. He, Kid Gavilan and Sugar Ray Leonard are widely recognized as three of the best bolo punchers in boxing history. Ceferino Garcia, the inventor of the bolo punch and world boxing middleweight champion in 1939-40. ... Gerardo Gonzalez (January 6, 1926 - February 13, 2003), better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a former gardener and world welterweight champion from Cuba. ... Sugar Ray Leonard (born 1956) is an American former boxer. ...

When asked once how he came to develop the wide sweeping uppercut, Garcia said when he was a youth he used to cut sugarcane in the Philippine Islands, with a bolo knife, which he wielded in a sweeping uppercut fashion. ... A bolo is a kind of machete, used particularly in the jungles of Indonesia and the Philippines. ...

The bolo punch might not even be thrown at all. It really is a circular motion that one boxer does with one of his arms to distract the opponent, causing the opponent either to take his eyes off the attacker's other arm, or actually focus on the fighter's other arm. When the opponent concentrates on the punch that is circling, usually the bolo puncher would sneak in a punch with the hand that is being sustained. When the rival concentrates on the hand that is not moving, then the bolo puncher usually uses the bolo punch to attack his target.

Two of the most famous cases of a fighter using the bolo punch were when Leonard avenged his loss to Roberto Duran (see "The No Más Fight") and when Leonard drew with Thomas Hearns in their second fight (see: Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns). Roberto Duran (b. ... The No Más Fight was a boxing fight held in New Orleans on the night of November 25, 1980. ... The two fights between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns in 1981 and 1989 were among the most eagerly anticipated confrontations in the history of boxing. ...