Best combination punchers..

This might surprise many. Oscar de la Hoya. The strongest part of his game, bar none. His variety of combinations are phenomenal.

 

Ray Robinson
Willie Pep
Muhammad Ali
Kid Gavilan
Ray Leonard
Roy Jones
Thomas Hearns
Fighting Harada
Pernell Whitaker

Some fighters that were fast with them, but not as accurate as the above:
Hector Camacho
Terry Norris
Meldrick Taylor
Oscar de la Hoya

 

Gotta start with Tyson, Sugar Shane, Lennox Lewis, Ali was unreal...

 

Agreeeeeed.

 

I can't believe Thomas Hearns is getting a mention. He's brilliant with punches flowing off the jab, and the straight right hand. But triggering off a variety of 4-5 punch bursts?. Not anywhere the best combination punchers of all-time.

Hearns was brilliant with the 1-2's.

 

Ive always throught De la hoya's combinations are better than Leonard's. If you watch Leonard, he flurries quick with both hands very quickly, but not much behind them, usually. De la hoya triggers them off better with more authority behind them, even though the consequences aren't the same. Leonard punched harder. He smashed Lalonde with nice combos, and some superb finishes at welterweight. De la hoya's combinations were lethal against Chavez, and some of the 3-4-5 punch bursts against Trinidad were the best I have ever seen.

When De la hoya has a come forward aggressor in there against him his combinations to the body and head are a sight to behold. Just ask Gatti whom De la hoya used as a punching bag with them.


The main reason I like De La Hoya's combinations over Leonard's, variety.

 

Leonard would fire off the combos when he had an opponent hurt, and he was a FINISHER. So I don't quite get the whole bit of him throwing shoe-shine punches.

 

De La Hoya over Mosley as well. Agree?. De La Hoya seems to fluently put together 4's and 5's in succession. Mosley would probably place three hard shots max, and that was him. If you watch him letting them go quickly, he usually flurries.

If you ever watch De La Hoya's fight with Mayorga, he triggered them off very well. The combination he floored Mayorga with before he rose and stopped him against the ropes, sublime. He went downstairs first with both hands, then to the head. And they were not flurries.

 

Mosley was not accurate enough in my opinion, and while his punches may have looked harder, they were clearly not as effective as Leonard's.

 

De La Hoya's over Leonard's everyday of the week for me. And I wish I could make up a couple of min video to compare them.

If anyone has the De La Hoya v Corley fight to hand, check out the round where Corley hurts De La Hoya, then he gets hurt himself during the same round. The 7th. Near the end of the round Corley stumbles back and De La Hoya chases him along the ropes. Watch the combo De La Hoya lands when Corley gets backed into the corner, he goes to the body with both hands, and finishes off with a left hook to the head. Rapid, extremely hard with either hand. He throws about 5 shots in about 1.5 seconds.

 

Are you saying De La Hoya's handspeed was better than Leonard's? Did you see the fight ending combo Leonard threw on Floyd Sr?

 

De La Hoya never had the stamina of Leonard, the power, or the intelligence. But he was better at landing combinations with variety. He triggered them off in succession with more authority, and the biggest difference......variety.