Check-hook KOs

Curry vs. McCallum. I honestly didn't expect it, although as Curry was down on the canvas I actually thought in my mind McCallum was too big. It just crossed my mind that a great punch like that still would not knock a guy cold like that since Mike was not a huge puncher. So I thought, he is too big, and you could tell in some exchanges early that Mike was stronger. I like both guys. They were both top fighters, and the fight was incredible in a technical way. Both were trying to land punches and it was interesting seeing them pick their punches.

 

Robinson-Fullmer is the GOAT check hook KO.

 

No such thing in my book. A left hook is a left hook it's some BS word that Showtime announcers made up during Mayweather Hatton fight I believe. Befor that I never heard it once not in any gym I trained in or any fight I watched since 77. My opinion

 

If by check-hook is meant when you swivel on your front foot at the same time as you throw the hook, Floyd's is the only one I can think of off the cuff. Ali floored Mildenberger with one, but it wasn't a KO.

That's a good punch to get off the ropes with, but it requires insane timing and execution to land it clean enough to KO someone.

 

I'm with you. It is just Floyd fans acting like he made up some kind of new punch. He just happened to catch Hatton off balance and out of position. A left hook is a left hook

 

Technically, you don't pivot on the front foot as you hook. The weight shifts back to the rear foot; in that instant you slide your front foot a bit to the side then pivot. The timing is split second so about 96 percent end up doing it wrong.

And from 1974 up until a couple years ago, I never heard of a ''check hook".

 

Roy against Kelly counts, maybe. It was his right hand though.

 

Threads like this...

Every time someone says the word "check hook" an angel loses it's wings.

 

For one, Mayweather-Hatton was on HBO, not Showtime. Floyd didn't join Showtime til 6 years later. The fight was called by Lampley, Merchant, and Manny Steward.

Two, Manny Steward was the one who first used the term on air. So it wasn't pulled out of some random Floyd fans' ass. I actually remember Steward specifically saying "It's what we call a check left hook."

 

Ok so I got the network wrong. I stand by everything else

 

Certainly a new one for me as well I am sure Steward called it that but a hook is a hook in my book even if it's your first punch, off the jab, doubled up or following a right.....but strategy? He may have meant not throwing it hard to set up another down the line not sure but letting it rip is a hook.....maybe he is referencing touch boxing while setting up big shots like GGG as an example

 

Oh, it is very real. It was actually a technique pioneered by the great William Sherriff, an evolution upon the Ham Shift and Slot Counter. Given Sherriff's dandy-ish sartorial tendencies, specifically in the form of the checkboard stockings and matching patterned sash that he wore in the ring, this maneuver came to be known as the Chequered Hook, later shortened to the Check Hook.

Credit where credit is due.

 

You slide your front foot to the side and then swivel on it, pushing off from the back foot, while throwing the hook. At least if we're talking about what I think we are. I e a hook that take takes you outside, in about a 90 degree angle, of the attack coming at you. Which is the kind of hook Floyd KO'd Hatton with, if I remember it correctly.

And whether it's been called a "check hook" for so and so many years or not is as about as helpful whether the "Philly Shell" has been used for years or not. The only thing of importance is whether we have definitions that everyone understands what they are about.