Young Wlad, pre Steward had a beautiful left hook. His hook off the jab, he was able to double, triple it and very fast too.
Cleveland Williams threw a pretty impressive looking triple left hook in triple in his rematch with Liston. Or maybe in both fights, I forget.
yes, but if one of the Youtube boxing experts "broke" that video down, there was also a "shift" involved. Bean went southpaw after throwing his right. Most call that "walking" with a punch and see it as a technical flaw, but there are YT videos about the lost art of "shifting." It's an "art" that should stay lost for most fighters.
All Wlads triple left hook combo highlight reel KOs just suddenly came to an end when Emanuel Steward became his trainer. I wonder what reason Manny had for taking his left hooks off him.
Well it's easy to do against a punching bag. But not so much against a live opponent whose defensively sound and trying to take your head off as much as you're trying to take his.
Too much was stripped away under Steward, or perhaps that was Wlad's doing. Steward used to go crazy at him to let them go at times but he wouldn't until he was ready