Fortuna swarmed Zamudio, from Mexico, in the opening seconds of the scheduled 12-rounder and dropped him with an overhand left.

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It won't be long before this muscle mania reaches Broadway and we get a Willy Loman who yells at Biff while ripping through sets of overhand pull-ups.

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Yet a professional tennis player can't lob a ball a few feet into the air and hit an overhand smash without being able to hear a pin drop?

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The power in an overhand throw and in a golf swing, a tennis serve or a baseball swing comes from the separate turning of hips and shoulders.

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Despite his questionable pedigree and punching power Afolabi punished Maccarinelli's casual defence in the ninth in the most emphatic style, when a huge overhand right came from nowhere to floor the Welshman.

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Thomas describes a skillful overhand throw as an uncoiling in three phases: step (with the foot opposite the throwing hand), rotate (with hips first, then shoulders) and whip (with the arm and hand).

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Or perhaps, allow you to bowl overhand.

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At the beginning of round three referee Richie Davies warned both fighters about use of the head and later in the round Quigley connected with an overhand right, followed by a left hand which had Smith struggling against the ropes.

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Not a week out of the hospital, he cracked this illegal Peruvian kid in the face with a hammer and two hours later threw down at the Pathmark because he thought some fool was talking shit about him, popped said fool in the piehole with a weak overhand right before a bunch of us could break it up.

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