Most Powerful Signature Move in Boxing History ?

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  1. Claw4075

    Claw4075 Ezzard Charles GOAT Full Member

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    Who do you think had the most powerful signature move ? I'll go with Ruddock's Smash.
     
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  2. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    Obviously it's the Koichi Wajima frog punch. Timestamped below:

    In all seriousness I'd go with Gavilan's bolo punch. Very flashy. No one did it quite like him.

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  3. Mike Cannon

    Mike Cannon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I quite like Walcott's shift ! if you haven't seen him do it check him out on You Tube. keep well.
     
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  4. Mike_b

    Mike_b Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Sucker move stole from a game chicken!!!- Roy Jones junior, in the toney fight and against (I can't remember) have to boxrec it.
     
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  5. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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  6. Glass City Cobra

    Glass City Cobra H2H Burger King

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    When Ali was in his prime and used the pull counter landing flush on the jaw, it dropped guys like a sack of potatoes. Underrated power. Part of the damage is psychological because the jab is usually the first in a sequence of punches and the opponent often leads with a jab of their own. It's demoralizing to not only get countered before you can even get your combination going, but to get hit by your opponents rear hand (which is further away and takes longer to throw than the lead hand).
     
  7. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    It was pretty sharp and pretty fast.
     
  8. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    7:54
     
  9. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    Jimmy Young: at least in one fight, sticking his head through the ropes v Ali. Power move? No. Memorable? Yes.

    Not to bang on Earnie because I love Shavers but even while possessing a powerful uppercut in its own right, it was often aided and abetted by Earnie’s free hand holding behind the neck.

    Along similar lines, Johnson totally clutching down on an opponent but being able to free his hand to rip a searing uppercut with little room required.

    Foreman’s power shove. No mean part of George’s game. Poor Frazier, he came to fight, pure punching machine but he had Foreman pushing him back to keep him off and put him range or he had Ali clinching him down to stifle his inside game (at least in fight II). As if Joe wasn’t already at dimensional disadvantages against that pair than to have to also deal with unquestionably illegal moves.

    The Manassa Mauler. Of course there was Dempsey roll but also the neat trick of punching his foe’s gonads into their stomachs then seamlessly shifting to finish them with a wholly legitimate punch. The ol’ one two. Completely intended. Okay, maybe only used so perfectly against the Boston Gob but it looked well practiced.

    Finally, Fainting Phil Scott, awesome “power” move for multiple wins by DQ. :(
     
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  10. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    You mean the balls to chin combo that Dempsey pull on Sharkey?
     
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  11. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Not sure anyone can beat Golotas combinations to the balls. You see how he dropped Bowe!
     
  12. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I don’t know if you meant a game of chicken — like two cars driving at each other full speed to see which driver is going to swerve — or not, but Roy Jr had fighting chickens and said he would watch them and pattern some of his moves by how they fought. The chickens would go in, pull out to set a trap and then attack when the other chicken came forward as they backed out.
     
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  13. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    LOL. Exactly! The steriliser then the pulveriser. I guess if D’Amato trained Jack and gave the punches numbers as he did Floyd, the nut punch might be assigned a symbolic zero and the left hook the number 5, with Cus shouting 0-5!!
     
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  14. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    I’m not up with Bowe’s parental status. Were there any little Riddicks on the scene pre Golota? I hope so. Of all bags, including heavy, speed and floor to ceiling, Andrew worked the ball bag best! He had a singular gift for it.
     
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  15. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s Full Member

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    Koichi obviously has the coolest one at the very least.
     
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