Larry Holmes, The Thread.

Where did I write Ali looked sharp vs Bonevena? Show everyone!

If you want to see what Ali could do with his hook watch his bout with Bonevena.

 

Homes was the more versatile attacker, would you say? And yes Ali looked pretty bad vs.. Bonevena.

HOUDINI might disagree, but he would be wrong.

As for Holmes having a bad left hook, which piece of film are you judging this on?

 

All respect @Mendoza but Larry's hook almost never did much besides be there. It wasn't anywhere near as effective as his straight right (much less the uppercut), and was damned less effective than his jab.

There's not a single fight where the hook made much of a difference...it just served as a heavy slap-type of punch in Larry's combination-scheme.

I should mention, Larry did have a pretty darn decent left uppercut, and he did have a good hook off the jab (though it was the actual combination together that made it, not the hook by any means).

I'd love to be corrected on this point with video examples.

If Larry had had a stronger hook both Witherspoon and M. Spinks would have been out of there imo. Norton too.

 

He didn't, the hook was mostly just there (though he surprised a couple of opponents with it in the course of his defenses, they were the exception that proved the rule).

Larry had a much better uppercut.