Best left hook downstairs today?

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by IntentionalButt, Jul 19, 2023.

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Best left hook downstairs today? (As stated - no southpaws, no head-hookers, nobody from past eras)

Poll closed Dec 31, 2023.
  1. Naoya Inoue

    80.0%
  2. Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán

    4.0%
  3. Nonito Gonzales Donaire Jr.

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. Ryan García Quesada

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  5. Jaime Aarón Munguía Escobedo

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  6. Murat Georgievich Gassiev

    12.0%
  7. José Carlos Ramírez

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  8. Juan Francisco Estrada Romero

    4.0%
  9. Anthony David Benavídez

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  10. Kazuto Ioka

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  1. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    I'm not sure you'll find one better than Naoya Inoue's. In the same ballpark, maybe.

    The alternative names I'd expect to get bandied about would be Canelo, Donaire, and Kingry...and until a few years ago GGG. Anybody else super obvious I'm not thinking of?

    I will put up a poll once a fair number of nominations have been made. :thumbsup:
     
  2. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Also may be courting some minor controversy with this, but don't think we've seen one since prime Cotto that's been as good.
     
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    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    This category of course would have once upon a time been dominated by Mexicans, but now there are only two in the running (one a pretty boy Chicano, and the other looks full-blooded Irish :sisi1) rivaled by as many Asians...three if you count Golovkin and four, actually, if you add Ioka.

    ¿Cómo se llama copium?

    Doesn't help that Nacho and some of the rest of the country's old guard of excellent coaches are wrapping up their careers without much generational backfill.
     
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    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Names, peasants - give me names! :monoloco:
     
  5. MidniteProwler

    MidniteProwler Fab 4. Mayor of Aussie Boxing Full Member

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    Tim Tszyu
     
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    tinman Loyal Member Full Member

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    Gassiev's is brutal. That's a large man delivering that punch. Makes me queasy just thinking about what it must be like to absorb one of those to the liver.
     
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    drenlou VIP Member Full Member

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    Honestly it's Inoue as far as the left hook goes.
     
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    mono Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Canelo, GGG, I think Jose Ramirez deserves a mention. But they’re all just playing for second. Inoue is leading this category.
     
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  9. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    The poll will be Inoue, Canelo, Donaire, Kingry, GGG, Ioka, Tszyu, Gassiev and Jaguar unless I see an upswell of support for different choices by this hour tomorrow.
     
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    ****ing troll
     
  11. MidniteProwler

    MidniteProwler Fab 4. Mayor of Aussie Boxing Full Member

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    Oh hi ellerbe, I hope your are well....
     
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  12. Charles White

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    Andrew Golota had the best left hook downstairs. Not sure about present day.
     
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  13. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    I mean it's pretty good tbf. Several better ones named in this very thread but it might just be a top 10 left rip downstairs in the game right now.
     
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    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    Right now there is no better body puncher in boxing than Inoue. In fact he might be the most scary body puncher I've ever witnessed, so many of his stoppages come from shots to the body.
     
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    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    I've got somewhat of a left hook downstairs. But nobody has ever called it the best anything.
     
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