Please breakdown young Mayweather's leaping left hook?

It's called leaping but that's not literally what he does (except on very very very rare occasion)

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Pretty much a perfect example.

Floyd will generally move on his feet, step in and jab to the middle of the abdomen, repeat this a few times, and then step in and come upstairs with a quick disguised hook when the opponent expects the jab again (or right hand)

It requires quick footwork and balance, but he doesn't leap. After the left hand has landed he usually pivots round on his left foot and changes the angle and turns his opponent. The initial step inside and pivot away is very important

It's generally also a punch performed with more speed than power - he won't be knocking people out with it, I wouldn't find it detrimental to describe this as a slap-hook

 

A Young Mayweather was such an amazing boxer. It doesn't matter who he fights and they couldn't hit him and he can really do what he wants at will. Back when he was hungry anyways.

His leaping left hook was quick, accurate and he escapes before his opponents even realizes that they got hit. The older Mayweather uses it less and he have to smother/pin/push his opponents after he connects to avoid getting countered. I see this a lot also with Jones jr when he does his leaping left hooks. Jones was powerful and fast and is extinct from jones repetoir now for he doesn't know how to use it without getting countered. Oh well.

I have practice leaping left hooks and leaping straight rights on several occasions. It is extremely hard to do. It takes a lot of form and leg strength just to justify the effort. It is hard for me to generate a lot of power on the leap lefts. It is much easiler on the leap str8s but both recovery time makes it too risky to use often. I pulled it off in sparring couple of times if i'm feeling i got the opponent mentally give up.

 

not a fan of that one you show. It looks good cos it scored the ko, but very high risk involved, if a straight right was thrown similtanoisly then good night floyd.

 

This is why him setting up the punch by disguising it with his body movement and prior work was important. Juan goes to jab at the time Floyd is throwing the hook, Floyd outsmarts him & beats him to the punch.

 

From the other thread:

I'd say he usually leaps more than he does with the JMM example. The "both" in the quote refers to RJJ as well.

 

great post Floyd actually jabbed Marquez to the body just a few seconds before the moment in the gif. Once the jab was established, he feinted to set up that hook we see.

There's no risk if you're controlling your opponent. Floyd knew his enemy and understood how Juan was going to respond to it. You can see Juan fall for the feint and incorrectly anticipate a jab coming from Floyd. He moves his right hand as to swat a jab to the head while jabbing back with his left hand, but instead Floyd loops his own left to create that hook. Juan thought the right thing to do was to "catch 1, then shoot 1".

 

he tried it o cotto but cotto was prepared 4 it and blocked it so floyd didnt bother using it

 

Serigo does it a lot for sure except with his left of course. Leaping Str8 is one of Floyd's most use power shot. Bhop uses it a lot too. Look up Floyd vs Hatton prodigy on youtube for great examples where it slo mos his leap str8s. He basically throws his whole body into his right following through his shot. Left leg grounds while he transfer his power from his right leg (off the ground) to body to shoulder to punch. Sometimes he throws it with half commit to score pts and duck sway escape. His feint rights are his biggest weapon for sure. He is able to tag basically everyone he fights with it and he disguisit it very well.

Mosley and Pac uses it a lot too

 

mosley had a sick leaping left hook circa ODLH 1 even