As a result, he's stopped punching walls.
Both men never stopped punching as the fight went into the championship rounds.
But a smart person would go, "Oh, he stopped punching her in the face".
Banks stopped punching the bag and said, "Thank you, thank you," just as if the expert had said something novel.
By the end of the third round, when he was first cut over his right eye, he had virtually stopped punching.
Tyson, 35, started fast, winning the first round largely with aggressiveness and a lively left hook, but he had just about stopped punching by the fourth round.
In fact the whole episode was more than usually playful (once John had stopped punching Sherlock for failing to recognise that pretending to be dead for two years can put a strain on the closest friendships).
It's still true that "a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its boots", but even the truth is shuffling through Terminal 5 before I've stopped punching my alarm clock.
It's partly a question of self-perception and identity: we think of ourselves as being different from the wimpish Europeans, and if we stopped punching above our weight, we wouldn't be different.
Although Viloria never stopped punching and sometimes connecting, González battered him until his face started to swell; the referee's stoppage, in the ninth round, seemed not at all too early, although Viloria said, as boxers are supposed to, that he would have liked to keep fighting.
Early in the fifth of twelve scheduled rounds, Klitschko began to reel and skip backward around the ring, with Joshua following; Joshua finally knocked him down with a left hook and an ensuing barrage, and, as the referee moved in to separate the boxers and begin his count, Joshua raised his hands, either to show that he had stopped punching or to claim victory.
