What happens when you get hit in the stomach?

Answer 1

A few things happen when you get hit in the stomach. Let's assume a bully has punched you in the gut and you had no time to flex.

BAM!

Your insides are literally being forced backward, into an unnatural position. In addition, they are relatively sensative and the nerves in your torso tell your brain that you are in pain. Next, the force of the punch is forcing your diaphragm to expell air; hence the term "knocking the wind out of someone." This causes you to gasp for air, making it difficult to breathe. Oh, and let's not forget about your unflexed muscles. They feel the brunt of the guy's fist too, causing even more pain.

Now, there are more factors to a punch than just a fist and a poor sap at the other end of it. To get an accurate measure of just what kind of damage a punch produces, you would have to calculate the attacker's size, strength, velocity, stance, and technique. In addition to that, you would have to calculate the poor sap's size, strength, stance, and how much of that punch he really took.

Most of the time, a punch will only knock the wind out of you, leaving you helpless and gasping for air.

But if someone who is big enough, strong enough, and/or executes a perfectly designed punch, it CAN kill you.

Lesson learned: Don't get punched!

Did you know that an aspiring rapper was killed in 2011 by a woman with a single punch in a five dollar bet?

Answer 2

Internal Bleeding.