Hardest/Best Left Hooks thrown at heavyweight

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  1. Ali4life

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    Who do you think through the hardest left hook and threw the most picture perfect Left Hook at heavyweight
     
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  2. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    In chronological order:
    Jack Dempsey's left-hook that dropped the 70 pound heavier Jess Willard ,July 4, 1919.
    The perfect left-hook uppercut that flattened Ezzard Charles,thrown by Jersey Joe Walcott
    July 18, 1951...
    And the shot heard "round the world", thrown by Joe Frazier,in the 15th round that floored
    Ali, in the FOTC, which i was priveleged to see March 8, 1971.
     
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  3. Swarmer

    Swarmer Patrick Full Member

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    Fitzsimmons
    Langford
    Dempsey
    Baer
    Louis
    Charles
    Marciano
    Frazier
    Norton
    Tyson
    Morrison
    Tua
    Klitschko
     
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  4. sugarsean

    sugarsean Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Joe Louis
     
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  5. left right left

    left right left Well-Known Member Full Member

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    left hook starting at 2:30
    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OQ341cWigg[/ame]
     
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  6. Jear

    Jear Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Staggering to think Ali got up from that shot
    Same with 'Enery's 'Ammer
     
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  7. Phys

    Phys Well-Known Member Full Member

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    But did Dempsey have a loaded glove?
     
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  8. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    Floyd Patterson...when he nearly decapitated Ingemar Johansson in 1960 to regain the crown...no other left hook was more picturesque and lethal, in my opinion.
     
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    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoK50XlZUDg[/ame]
     
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  10. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    Holyfield's left hook was underrated. Dropping Mercer and Bowe for the first time in their careers and landing 3 consecutive on Tyson in the 10th (or was it 11th?) before putting him away. All left hooks.
     
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