Do people in classic understand....

I understand that the primary hook that you learn to throw is with your front hand, put you can still throw a hook with your back hand, I never did when I boxed though, might swing a haymaker with it, but left hooks were my main hooks. I was **** though.

 

i liked left hooking too.my right cross was pitiful but i liked to hook off the jab

 

...It's my understanding that when it hooks...it's a hook. And when it crosses...it's a cross...and when it's straight...it's a straight...and when it jabs...it's a jab. And if it crunks...it's a crunkercut. Although only SNV can really crunk it, hence the SNV crunkercut being attributed only to him.

 

I don't know anyone who thinks that.

 

You are right from a technical standpoint, but it is really a matter of semantics.

If you get hit with it you probably don't care what it is called.

 

no it just hurts or knocks you down

 

No, it is possible to throw a non-lead hook. This is quite common when working the body. It's especially pronounced when you have someone swinging away at the body and/or if someone squares up.

If you want to see really swinging right hooks, look at George Foreman's bodywork in the Rumble in the Jungle.

 

they were pretty wide

 

I hear it often.

Chavez, Armstrong, Hopkins, Marquez... on the inside both hands have the same capability. Even on the outside a both lefts and rights can be a straight, hook, uppercut, overhand, etc. Have you ever heard of fighting a southpaw on the inside to take away his advantages?

 

On a side note, the punch in question made me think of Sam Langford a little. Seems to be the kind of shot he often close the show with.

 

show me the crunkercut

 

A right hook though (for an orthodox or a left hook for a southpaw) is quite a hard punch to throw and it is generally more over hand or uppercut than hook but it can be thrown.

 

The movement defines the punch, not which hand throws it (well, technicalities aside like a southpaw throws a jab with a lead right hand, but the orthodox fighter jabs with their left; their leading hand).

you cna hook with either hand in either stance.