Ok so boxing 101, trainer says put your power side back and lead with your weaker arm for example. Naturally we are all gifted being a certain hand in spelling, baseball, boxing, skateboarding so on and so forth. My question is for a orthodox fighter :" does his left hook bang less powerfully than his powerful right hand?" Especially when he sits down on the right with all his core muscles. I can't think of a right clubber that had a shi()y left hook: look at wilder for example: great right hand, concussive left hook, power in both hands (regarding a fury KD) Tyson mt had both hands powerful, I suppose one can be ambidextrous? But why is it that we see left hookers without a solid right hand? Yet we see right hand monsters with no problems in the left hand? Btw Braddock the Cinderella man would favor his weaker arm to gain strength at the loading docks because he wanted an equally powerful left hand!
Generally anyone that has power at all has good form and that means all there punches have authority. A big right hander with a weak left hook would have to be mechanically terrible or throwing the left hook for a different purpose then a finishing blow or what not.
Donny Lalonde had a dynamite right and his left was barely adequate, if that. His left shoulder was, for lack of a better term, defective. It kept popping out of joint during fights. Lots of ligament damage and such. He could use it as a range-finder, paw with it and occasionally land a real (but not hard) jab or hook with it. But he became world champ strictly on the strength of his right hand. Basically a one-armed fighter.
First that came to mind. The fact that he virtually shelved it didn't help but it was a conscious decision apparently.
I think there's plenty of those. I'll dispute @Journeyman92 's post in this particular topic. I think it's quite common for fighters to have good form and technique with 1 punch, but struggle to develop good technique with other. Sergey Kovalev had virtually no left hook at all for example, while He had great straight right hand. He looks unnatural while throwing left cross, never really developed it - and was usually following his right hand with a power jab. I think it's quite common with a lot European fighters, with wide and more upright stance. Not suited for throwing left hook effectively.
You’re essentially agreeing with me. Kinda, If Kovalev had good mechanics with his left hook it’d be fine, he doesn’t due to how he fights. Do you get me?
Good post. Lots of European fighters have that stand up style that works behind the jab and straight right or one two. They tend to like to fight at range which makes the left hook not as effective. This style is very prevalent with European amateur boxing. Guys like Mikkel Kessler, Sven Ottke, Axel Schulz are just a few more examples. The left hook is typically not so much a harder punch from a conventional fighter than a straight right hand its that it is a much shorter punch to target and faster than a straight right hand making it easier to land especially as a counter punch.
Hm.. not sure. You wrote that generally for a fighter with power, all of his punches will have authority - and my impression is a bit different, that it's rather very common for fighters to be very 1-hand dominant, particulary when it comes to generating power. I think it's the easiest to see in southpaw. So many of them are so left-hand dominant. All the power for Guillermo Rigondeaux was coming from his left hand, same with Lucian Bute for example - it's not quite what topic starter asked for, but I think from technical stand-point it's the same kind of issue. I think main issue here it's stance that some of those fighters use that makes it hard for them to throw hook with good mechanics - yet it's very effective for straight punches. Don't want to turn it into argument either way, if I misunderstood something - my bad. It's interesting topic though.
