Why check hooks are dope

The title should read "Why check hooks are dope"

 

Roy Jones had the best I ever saw.

 

I dont believe in a so called "checkhook" I think the term is ridiculous and made up. A hook is a hook period.

 

Thank you Robert...I agree with you.

 

Thanku my pal

 

A check hook, is a counter hook, stepping away from a hook while doing so

 

Nope, it has nothing to do with countering, it's just a hook where you pivot as you turn over the hook. It can even be an offensive weapon rather than a matador weapon. Cotto threw it as an offensive weapon sometimes and many southpaws do the same.

 

It's a different kind of hook, get over it. A leaping hook is not an ordinary hook, why would you say a check hook is an ordinary hook?? Read my post above.

 

The one that knocked Louis down was actually the 'check hook' in the exchange.
Galento's was a tight short hook, thrown and landed while Louis was loading up a bit with his own.
Galento displayed the technical superiority in this particular exchange.

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Textbook check hooking from the "fat bartender" there.
It's almost as if he knew something about boxing, eh ?

 

You don't pivot while you throw a "check" hook because that would keep the weight on your left foot. The weight transfers to the right foot, which allows you to slide your left foot over, and then to pivot on it. With practice it becomes a very fluid movement.
But it takes time and attention to detail and patience and attention to detail are lacking in most boxers, trainers, and observers of boxing. So you end up with a bunch of guys spinning on their left foot and trying to throw an effective punch with no weight shift.

 

No

 

No. It's still a hook right

 

I don't think there's any agreed definition of a check hook, other than it's a short counter hook, usually countering a wider punch.
To be honest, I'd never heard of it until Mayweather mentioned it after the Hatton fight. It was never boxing parlance over here in England, as I recall.

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No. To throw a check hook, you throw an ordinary hook, but as you land the hook, what you with the rear foot is, instead of in an ordinary hook where you just pivot on the ball of the rear foot, in the check hook you actively turn the rear heel as you land the hook; this causes your rear foot to leave the ground a split second right after you land the hook, which not only causes you to pivot your body and move from the opponent at an angle, you also still get full power behind the hook because your rear foot leaves the ground only a split second right after you have landed the hook, so the hook still landed while both feet were on the ground and thus had full power.