Top 5 greatest uppercuts ever ?

If you're talking single shots Lewis hit Klitschko with an absolute peach during their fight, how Vitali stood up to it I'll never know

 

Arguello and Zarate then.

 

Lewis and Louis as well.

 

Benvenuti had a brilliant lead right uppercut.

Arguello to the body.

Azumah Nelson

Kalambay had maybe the best counter uppercuts from the outside i've ever seen, a punch many fighters can't even attempt for fear of being badly countered, yet he seemed able to throw it from multiple angles, in almost any situation.It was a bit of a weakness as well as a strength though, as he often waited for the ideal countering chance to use it when it may have been more appropriate to just let the straight right go.

 

That's basically all he uses. Like Foreman, he seems to throw most of his punches from low to high and in an upper cut arc. Tyson did that a lot too, where as Lewis' upper cut was more conventional, although he wasn't beyond holding the head of a fighter when he delivered it. (ie Grant) that was brutal.

 

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Great picture, thanks for posting this Tommy.

Lewis brutal TKO6 Vitali.

 

I will post this whenever the klit huggers get out of line.

 

How could it not be accurate? He was usually holding his opponent's head with the other hand.

 

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Skip to 7:25.

 

Just some names that immediately came to mind:

Mike Tyson
Roberto Duran
Jack Johnson(one of the few clean shots you can see consistently in those old films)
Larry Holmes
George Foreman

Also Riddick Bowe. Razor Rudduck(though that was more of a hook/uppercut hybrid). Mike McCallum(to the body).

 

Tyson
Louis
Foreman
Ray Robinson
Napoles

 

Old Time Jack Johnson.
Recent Larry Holmes.

 

The fellow who's surname you have in your username threw a mean uppercut or two in his time . Walcott had a sidewinder on him too when he used it ie. the Charles ko.

As an aside, I was re-watching Lewis-Mavrovic the other day and I'd forgotten just how many good full-blown uppercuts and overhand rights Mavrovic swallowed that night. Hard man he was.