What is the Corkscrew hook?

never heard of that one. Trying to envision how that would work.:think Sounds like a lowercut instead of an uppercut?

 

my understanding is that you throw it with front of you're hand facing away from you...you turn it over...almost like a jab right as you land..thus landing with the final two knuckles.

 

Kid McCoy was proficient with this punch. I saw a drawing done of him (from a much earlier source) in an old boxing mag where he demonstrated the punch.

 

This isn't the article or the drawing I'm refrring to but I got it from the internet just now.
http://www.bullworks.net/daily/20080511.htm

 

Dunno...about a corkscrew punch. But will say that Hagler was very good at twisting his right jab on impact...Pretty good at tearing your face up. Arguello could twist his left jab too...

 

I'm pretty sure his punch was just called "The Corkscrew Punch" and was in essence just a modern straight right. All it involved was turning the punch over at the point of impact, as became the normal standard for the technique afterward.

I'd never heard of the corkscrew hook prior to this. It sounds like a pretty bizarre technique.

 

Hmmm. I stand corrected.

 

is this one?? It's a funny old punch whatever it is!!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0hZKnQ07IE&feature=related[/ame]

 

That would be the famed "hookercut" of yore.

 

Walcott Hooooooooookkkeeerrrrcuuuuuuuuuttt!!!!!! :rasta

 

I remember reading somewhere that Mccoy claimed to have invented the punch after watching a cat paw at something in the air, and decided to try to replicate the technique lol

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=i-gKlNJpJGEC&lpg=PA155&ots=KFSFnmtz9O&dq=the%20corkscrew%20hook&pg=PA159#v=onepage&q=the%20corkscrew%20hook&f=false

page 159

or ali vs liston 2 with the controversial knock down.

 

So would it be the punch Lennox Lewis used to set up the right hand against Rahman in the second fight? A weird long hook thing.

 

The punch was outlawed.

I thought it was when you landed a left hook and then followed it back up with and elbow to the point of the jaw. It was outlawed after Dempsey was KO d with it.