Best Left Hooks ?

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  1. Claw4075

    Claw4075 Ezzard Charles GOAT Full Member

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    List your top 5 left hooks based on their effectiveness AND power.
     
    Claw4075, Jan 7, 2022
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    Balder Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    Mickey Ward
    JC Chavez
    Frazier
    Tommy Morrison
    Tyson
     
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    kaapa2 Photo believed to be Col. W.E. Kurtz... Full Member

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    When talking about heavyweights, I'd say

    Sonny Liston
    Joe Frazier
    Mike Tyson
    Jack Dempsey
    Tommy Morrison
    Cleveland Williams
    Joe Louis

    They are all in no particular order and they are from the top of my head so it is possible that I've missed someone that deserves to be mentioned.
     
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    Sugar Ray Robinson
    Joe Louis
    Joe Frazier
    Bob Foster
    Ruben Olivares
    Mike Tyson
    Donald Curry
    Felix Trinidad
    Nonito Donaire
     
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    Barrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Gerry Cooney deserves to be up there. His left hook was excellent.
     
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    Bob Foster ( Don't believe anyone had as many "unequivocally over" ko's
    than he did off the left hook.)
    Joe Frazier (a left hooking machine, could counter with it, lead, double and triple hooks
    wasn't the most powerful, but the greatest left hooker at heavy overall.)
    Joe Louis (speed precision, and power)
    Chavez (his body punching with the hook was devastating)
    Olivares ( The Mexican hook to the liver was his specialty,
    he may have created that legend.)
     
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    Michael Spinks. He's known for his right hand, but his left was no joke either. It was the left hook that sent Marvin Johnson to dream land.
     
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    Yes, I thought about adding Cooney and maybe Tua just after I posted. Thank you!
     
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    Tony Sibson had a cracking LH.
     
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    WHAT HE SAID
     
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    Tony Bellew
    Callum Johnson
    Danny Garcia
     
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    Ray Leonard and Mike Weaver had real good left hooks.
     
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    Olivaires
     
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    Nino Benvenuti another
     
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    The Dempsey Willard footage sound version claimed Dempsey had the best left hook of all time.
     
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