Green’s Dictionary of Slang

doubler n.2

[it causes the recipient to double up v.2 (1)]

an extremely severe blow.

[UK]Fancy I, 255: In the fourth round he came in all abroad, and got a doubler in the bread-basket, which spoiled him for the remainder of the fight [F&H].
[US]Matsell Vocabulum 126: doubler. A blow which causes the person struck to bend forward.