Greatest right hands in Boxing history?

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  1. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    After having watched an Alexis Arguello fight, I came to the conclusion that he surely had one of better right hands in history. Straight as an arrow, and possessing one punch knockout power at Featherweight. The same right hand that put Rooney to sleep in the second round. The clip is all over youtube.

    Who else had spectacular right hands?

    Julian Jackson
    Thomas Hearns
    Joe Louis
     
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  2. round15

    round15 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Thomas Hearns and Alexis Arguello through the best right hands I've seen in boxing. Shavers has the hardest right hand punch, perhaps in the history of the sport with George Foreman, Sonny Liston, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis not too far behind him.
     
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  3. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    Alexis puts punchers together in bunches like no other fighter I've seen. Sure there has been faster and sharper combination punchers in Taylor, Leonard, Louis, and the list goes on, but Alexis plants every punch with precision. He mixes it to the head and body seemlessly, and mostly from quite wide angles. His one-two is similar to Pavlik's, only in a p4p sense Alexis hit harder and threw straighter punches.
     
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  4. Bad_Intentions

    Bad_Intentions Boxing Addict Full Member

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    max baer
    joe louis
    julian jackson
    rocky marciano
    mike tyson
    thomas hearns
     
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  5. punchy

    punchy Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Lennox Lewis had a great right hand.
     
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  6. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    Do you think Juan Manuel Marquez qualifies?
     
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  7. ThinBlack

    ThinBlack Boxing Addict banned

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    Michael Spinks, Spinks Jinx.
     
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  8. Ted Spoon

    Ted Spoon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Carlos Monzon and his rival Rodrigo Valdez had two equally contrasting and fantastically effective right hands.

    Monzon just wrecked you with his through the rounds and it's hard to swallow the effect Valdez's right-hand blast had on the near impenetrable, 'Bad' Bennie Briscoe.

    pghmiddleweight, you've summed Mayweather up well here. He basically took Ali's sucker shot and gave it to us all in every possible version. He only needed that punch against Hatton, and he had every other tool to make it connect as he pleased.
     
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  9. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Max Baer
    Rock Marciano
    Roger Mayweather
    Lew Jenkins
    Rocky Graziano
    Micheal Spinks
    Ingemar Johannson
     
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  10. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    Danny Lopez right was great.
     
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  11. natonic

    natonic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Mathew Saad Muhammed had a beautiful right hand which bailed him out of many a jam.
     
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  12. ChrisPontius

    ChrisPontius March 8th, 1971 Full Member

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    In terms of accuracy, technique and speed it does, but i think he lacks a bit in the power department.

    Well, compared to Hearns, Johansson, etc that is.
     
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  13. Bill Butcher

    Bill Butcher Erik`El Terrible`Morales Full Member

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    ARGUELLO & HEARNS

    Just ask Kevin Rooney & Roberto Duran.
     
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  14. Hatesrats

    Hatesrats "I'm NOT Suprised..." Full Member

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    I'd say Marvin Hagler had a great right hand.. "His Jab"
    (His best punch)
     
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  15. JohnThomas1

    JohnThomas1 VIP Member

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    :yep:yep:yep:yep:yep

    Eddie Mustafa had a ripper too but laid back more than Spinks.
     
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