Best Heavyweight Left Hooks

In know particular order,Louis,Dempsey,Frazier,Tyson,Cleveland Williams,and despite the Liston bashers,he had a very good one.

 

Interesting list.



Did you realise that your #4 and #5 left hookers of all time landed flush on Lennox Lewis, who would've been knocked out cold, because if Rahman and McCall could do it, certainly they could!!:nod

.. or wait?

 

I think he mans to say Lewis was more vulnearble to a right hand rather then a left hook

 

That's interesting, so his chin is so intelligent that when a huge punch lands on it, it thinks: was it a right hand? Nope, left hook. Alright, nothing happens then. Oh wait, it was a right hand after all..... ok.... prepare to get knocked out...

 

Sorry, but my point was that these guys LANDED on Lewis, flush, so whether he was vulnerable for a certain punch is completely irrelevant.

 

i'm not so sure tua landed on lewis all night

 

I'm a big fan of Sanchez, he didn't have any glaring weaknesses. He was uncomfortable on the front foot but he could and did fight that way although he prefered his opponents coming to him. Sanchez was always perfectly trained and ready, but I saw in a documentary/tribute thing to him that he wished to become a doctor, that was his dream. So he didn't look like having a long career left. But yes you're right in his worst performance he beat Nelson, in hindsight its easy to see that it was a bad performance because of the quality of his opposition.

 

floyd patterson
jack dempsey
joe frazier
tony galento
mike tyson
david tua
tommy morison
'razor' ruddock

 

During Sal's nontitle performance against Nicky Perez, the commentators discussed his desire to become a physician, and the fact that Sanchez came from a good family, and chose to become a boxer because he enjoyed it, not as a matter of economic survival, or because he was pushed into boxing by an ambitious parent, like the Quarry boys or Ayala clan.

Although it certainly was not Sal's intention to box for much longer, a fact also discussed during the Perez bout, the "path of least resistance" dynamic might have caused him to prolong his career for a more extended duration than he was planning on. (It was also a way for him to indulge in his only vice, the love of exotic high speed sports cars which ultimately killed him.)

However, as an athlete whose body was so finely tuned aerobically that he always knew what pace to box at to bring his heartrate to a specified target, he could well have been absorbed enough in the workings of the human body to successfully parlay his training and conditioning experience into an equally outstanding career as a medical doctor.

What a tragedy, that such a classy and elegant individual would get killed by his one and only obvious personal indulgence, when so many other prominent athletes pursue criminal activites and conduct which negativly impact upon the lives of so many others, as well as themselves. More than Holmes/Ali, Mancini/Kim, or any other of the myriad unfortunate events involving boxing and boxers in my memory, the death of Sal Sanchez remains the saddest event, the one which continues to affect me most deeply. (And many others I know who follwed boxing during that time period.)

 

When Joe Louis decked Max Baer (for the first knockdown I think),
Louis tripled up on his left hook!!! You don't see too many
heavyweight do that!!!



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Walcott vs Charles....Marciano double hook vs Matthews and Moore..Joe Frazier vs Ali1, Foster,Ramos,Ellis,...Rudduck vs Dokes....Morison vs Rudduck, Sam Peter vs Williams...Tyson vs Berbick...Dempsey vs Willard

 

Besides round 8, round 3 was Tyson's best round agains Douglas because he used a left hook to the body and it slowed down Douglas. Too bad Tyson didn't have the intelligence to follow up with this body punching but instead opted to head hunt.

Liston had one of the deadliest left hooks I've seen. A very memorable moment in the Liston-Clay I fight is when Liston lands a long left hook "dug under the heart" and a durable Muhammad Ali is visibly shaken from that body blow. See that again and tell me his left hook doesn't deserve mention.

Liston, Frazier, and definitely, Gerry Cooney.