Fighters who were overtly reliant on one punch

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  1. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    No one has stated the ultimate trick pony, Wilder?
     
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    Donny Lalonde
     
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  3. dmt

    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    OP
     
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    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Were you a victim by chance? Would explain a lot.
     
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  5. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Always to a degree, but especially later on; Bobby Chacon and his right hand.
     
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  6. DirtyDan

    DirtyDan Worst Poster of 2015 Full Member

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    Adonis Stevenson as time progressed only had his left hook. Tbf it did bail him out a couple of times.
     
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  7. Samart'sTeep

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    David Tua with his left hook.
     
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  8. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    Good call. I was thinking of Donnie The Golden Boy and his bionic right hand. Not enough to hold off Sugar Ray. That was a spectacular KO win for Leonard.
     
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    Young Pacquiao and his straight left
     
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  10. Journeyman92

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    Joe Frazier… took a minute? Thought he’d be the #1 pick.
     
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  11. dmt

    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    i can agree Frazier was overly reliant on the left hook. But he did work the body with both hands. His right hand to the body was effective.

    Whereas a guy like Wilder is almost entirely one handed.
     
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    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    He might have overused the left hook but he had a lot more than that. Tua ko'd Michael Moorer with a right hook.

    He ko'd Daniels with a double left uppercut.
     
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  13. Barrf

    Barrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    When I see "overly reliant", I think of it in a way that was to their detriment. Frazier was so damn good with that hook that he'd have been nuts to not spam it all night long every fight. It was his fastest punch, it was his hardest punch, he threw it equally well to the head and to the body, and somehow he could double or triple it up rapidly.

    So he was reliant on it, but overly so? No, wisely so.
     
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    Earnie Shavers and his right hand bomb!
     
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  15. cross_trainer

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    True, but the OP says "overtly" reliant. Frazier's reliance was very overt.
     
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