Who Had The Most Devastating Left Hook?

For sheer knock-em-dead power I'd give Foster the nod. For the combination of speed, power and variety I'd give Robinson the edge. For overall usage I'd give it to Frazier. Nobody was more fluid with it, regardless of weight. That punch was ingrained into his repertoire as much as Winstone's jab was ingrained into his.

 

This. To the letter.

(Our man Bujia is on fire today:good)

 

Ah I see, I didnt know you were talking about Langford. Fair opinion if you have enough knowledge about how hard a puncher he actually was. I dont know a whole lot about him so ill stick with my foster pick:deal

 

Are you from Memphis? A lot of brothers down there talk like that. "Mane, bruh, cuz, ni$$a, etc."

 

Who can say ? But for the smaller men,the best left-hooker I saw ringside was the
tough Al Bummy Davis. What torque he put behind that left-hook.! Kod an old Tony Canzoneri with it.

 

Coincidentally i'm living there now

 

She wants your cawk, brahski.

 

Approaching this from another angle, who did the least with his right hand? I'd say Frazier. Even when he surprised Jerry Quarry with his right in their rematch, he tore JQ's face open with it to directly cause the stoppage only after earlier bringing Jerry to his knee with a hook to the body. Chuvalo's said very clearly that Joe's right was nothing to sneeze at, and there are some good face contorting still photographs of his right connecting, but it wasn't a pivotal weapon except in the JQ rematch.

Next, Cooney. He did initially stun Norton with a right, ripped open Young's visage with another right, and decked the then undefeated Philipp Brown with a right, but every other knockdown and highlight reel stoppage I'm aware of from Gerry came courtesy of his hook.

Cuevas ended the career of southpaw Billy Backus with his right, fracturing the former champion's orbital socket with it, but he was indeed normally a hooker. He was no kind of one armed puncher though, and moving away from his hook could definitely get you killed by his right.

Bob Foster and Robby were both perfectly lethal with the right hand, but have become inextricably associated with their most spectacular filmed knockouts.

If I were to have my pick of whose hook to appropriate for myself, I'd take Robby's, because of the way he could double, triple or quadruple up on it at any time from any position. But Frazier could break ribs and faces with his. Even Ali looked like he'd been in a fight when Smoke was done with him. (So did Foreman after their rematch for that matter.) Don't know for sure how many stitches Joe caused JQ, Stander and Chuvalo put together, but he might have killed Wepner through exsanguination if they'd ever met.

 

Patterson
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razor ruddock over cooney

 

Thank you Vic for this reminder:good...put Floyd patterson into this thread mix for sure...that left hook that regained the title from Ingo was at the summit of all the lethal hooks of history. Even if was preceded by a knockdown, that single left would have done the job just the same if it had landed first.

 

Out of this group, i'd say Foster.

 

I list Foster at the very top. His left hook was an exquisite weapon of destruction...probably one of the most merciful killers of boxing history as well as a vengeful, vindictive champion. He'd knock you dead and wouldn't mind doing it at all.

 

Definitely "Smokin" Joe. He had the left hook you couldn't escape.

 

Ray Robinson.