These are some of my favorite straight right hand KOs. Toney-Williams Arguello-Rooney Hearns-Cuevas Hearns-Duran Hearns-Shuler
Sanches vs Gomez, Tyson vs Botha were the first two I thought of. There so many, we could go on & on....
Agreed. That kid looked like he had been shot from the referee with a double barrell shotgun. Gil Clancy said during the replays "Anyone who Argeullo hits with that right hand at one hundred and forty pounds is going to go, I don't care who it is". Clancy was wrong in the end as Pryor took everything Arguello could throw at him over two fights.
How can it be anything but the"Suzy Q" that Rocky Marciano landed on Jersey Joe Walcott's chin in their classic title fight in Philly on September 23,1952???
And Mike Weaver landed a good one to dispatch Gerrie Coeztee. (Weaver was one of the truest examples of one punch knockout power in either hand during his WBA Title run. Left hook on John Tate, right cross on Coetzee (and both punches delivered during true championship rounds).
Well, were Rocky's right hands generally delivered straight down the pike? (I consider him to be a little more of a roundhouser, and the impression I get is that this thread asks about defense splitting straight rights.)
Interestingly enough, many of Hearn's rights were arced, not straight. Including the one that levelled Duran.
The more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to go with Arguello. He delivered it in such a straight line that he actually sacrificed some explosive force in the process, but more than made up for it with his sharpshooting placement and accuracy. Even though he couldn't drop Pryor with it, the delivery, placement, and follow-through was as instructive as the proper execution of a correct and efficiently generated right cross can get. Against Mancini, Alexis was so methodically graceful and fluid in his deployment of the right that it appeared hypnotically slow, yet it wasn't. He looked like a bombardier fixing his sights.
Hearns-Duran wasn't a straight right. That's a right cross; so was Tyson-Johnson and Marciano-Walcott. Maybe I'm being picky, but a genuine straight right travels in a straight line, something like what Arguello hit Pryor with. You know, the one that knocked Pryor's head back and made him look directly up at the stars. EDIT: Why does my post say 'Last edited by Erebus : 03-04-2006 at 5:40 PM.' :rofl
