I feel Paterson would have beaten Roy at heavyweight or light heavy because of his power advantage, but Roy`s hooks were lightining quick, if he could catch Floyd flush would it knock him out? Who would land more hooks if they fought anywhee between 175-heavyweight and who had the better, most effective hook overall between the two?
Patterson's ol Gazelle Punch is a bit underrated IMO, Louis and Marciano used with with success but Patterson seemed to have perfected it I'd take Patterson's left hook here, in terms of explosiveness and pure power. One of the most beautiful knockouts I've ever seen is when he landed it on Ingo
I'd favour Floyd being the naturally bigger man h2h but who has the best left hook is tougher to call imo. As TUL just said Floyds KO of Johansson is one of the more spectacular KO's in boxing history but I recall Jones scoring some brutal stoppages with lightning fast, powerful hooks. The left hook/uppercut that destroyed Montell Griffin was a peach as was the lead left hook that flattened Thulani Malinga. My personal favourite though was the left hook that put away the normally extremely durable Thomas Tate. It's a beauty.
Patterson probably had the harder left hook with one single shot. But Jones Jr. Could land 3-4 left hooks in a row, all with power, all landing cleanly. And then be in another area code by the time a counter shot was launched. Jones Jr. Was truly a special athlete that happened to be a boxer in his prime, and he did it against far more capable competition than Patterson did.
Patterson’s left hook is better. Jones is the greater fighter with the greater legacy but I feel had Patterson stuck to his natural weight class we’d talk about him in the same ilk as guys like Jones. Patterson was a special fighter.
I don`t think he could have landed 3-4 hooks in a row on a fast fighter like Paterson witout catching a fast hook back though, Floyd had problems with fast fighters like Griffin and Calzaghe, he didn`t throw many hooks in the first Griffin fight and even though he took Montell out with a hook in the rematch he missesd wildly with a few before landing that punch, which I feel was more sloppy than Paterson.
Are you really holding Jone's loss to Calazaghe against him? If so, Louis's loss to Marciano, Ali's loss to Berbick , Leonard's loss to Norris and Camacho , Duran's loss's to Laing and Lawlor, etc and I can just about go on forever on fighters that stayed around to long, should be held against them too. And the Griffin loss was mainly about Griffith's awkwardness NOT his speed, and him being smart enough to feign being seriously hurt from an obvious cheap shot that didn't at all land cleanly . Jones Jr fought him again the very next fight and destroyed Griffith in a grand total of one rd . Where was the problem with Griffith's speed in the 2nd fight? Or did Jones adjust to the awkwardness and took him serious the 2nd time.
Jones missed wide with a couple of hooks v Griffith before stopping him because he just came out blasting, he simply had too much power for him and Griffin wasn`t good enough to know how to deal with his tactics, Ali had parkinson`s disease against Berbick, Jones had a lot more left than Ray at the same age, Ray would have been destroyed by Trinidad when he was 39-40, you`re right about Louis and Duran though, nice one.
