Who owned the greatest right hand in boxing?

We know you dont value power,so you saying for the very few times Hearns was off balance,someone like sweetpea,could make him pay for it?

 

Yes there are tons of heavyweights with crushing righthands,but for the big boys I'll have to go with Tim Weatherspoon,his righthand was a thing poetry for a man that big,not to mention the speed was as nearly as fast as most middleweights righthands he also could double it with textbook acuracy to.

 

What a stupid post. You'd really feel at home in the general forum...you're out of place anywhere else.

 

Louis or Hearns

 

u mention baer, schmeling, and johansson but leave out marciano?


Name me five other fighters in history who could knock you out with a right hand throwing it both long and short. Rocky could knock you out with one right hand throwing it long(roundhouse style see layne) and short(crisp with extreme leverage see walcott I)

rocky may not have the best technique, but he had a very natural right hand punch.

I think he rates near the top. Louis rates at the top because his right hand was the greatest punch from a technical and power standpoint i have ever seen in my life.

Sonny Liston may had had the most powerful. It was like a club. it bounced opponents around it was so powerful. it could also put your lights out(see westphal ko)

 

No way. It was good. Very good. but Max Baer proved in their fight he had a better right hand than schmeling. Schmeling did capitalize on louis' big flaw in a masterpiece in 36, but louis just never let his hands go in that fight.

I think

Marciano' Suzy Q- thrown long or short
Liston's clubbing right
Loui's devastating sharp right
Foreman Atombic Bomb of a right
Lennox's snap shot whale of a right
Tyson's fast crisp powerful right
Dempsey's effective snake shot right
Walcott's mouse trap right
Patterson's lightning like right
johansson's drop your dead right hand

All had equally or better rights than schmeling

 

An oversight of mine, to be sure..of course you have to include the man who used the ultimate right hand bomb to win the heavyweight title. It was early for me when I did that post...give me a break.

 

I won't give you a break but I will you a cup of coffee instead

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On a boxing site is it appropriate to say "one lump or two"?

 

Red Cobra,

i hate to veer of course, but how amazing does floyd patterson look in the late 1950s?

 

You only have to see the Patterson-London match, in my opinion Patterson's best pre-Ingo performance. He threw hooks to the head and body and moved like a welterweight. I've only heard about this fight for years, but after seeing it for the first time on your thread the other night, I must say I'm amazed and impressed with Floyd, and even the toughness and heart displayed by Brian London (!!) in soaking up a dreadful and steady beating from FP. Amazing and impressive at the same time...the freak kds at the hands of Roy Harris and Rademacher and all the talk about Floyd's chin have always cloaked the reality that Patterson was a highly skilled, purposeful combination puncher who, as I said, moved like a welterweight, and with the fastest hands of any heavyweight champion possibly barring Ali.

 

Come on, Suzie, you know better than that. Baer´s right was more powerful but Schmeling´s was faster, straighter, technically better and shorter.

I think the red ones you are right. The others are great and not far away but not as good as Schmeling´s.

 

Schmeling's right hand is one of the best I've ever seen in any division. He could land it on any opponent. There were bigger punchers than he was in the heavyweight division but few with a sneaky right hand like Schmeling's.