Who throws/threw a good lead right?

Bobby Chacon had a great lead right hand... I can`t believe no one else called it before me, it was his best punch after all.

 

Aaron Pryor comes to mind. Ricardo Lopez is another but he'd set traps or wait for openings to throw it. Come to think of it, Greg Page had a good one.
Eubank was another guy and it was very effective for him.

 

A true lead right? Roy Jones threw the best I ever saw. Unanticipated, untelegraphed and sent in a blink of an eye.

 

1960s WBA heavyweight champion Jimmy Ellis was renown for his sneaky lead right hand. Ellis scored 16 first round knockouts, and many of them were due to his lead right.

 

Good call on Ellis. You know, that's a guy that gets minimal respect these days and he was never an easy fight for anyone. Real nice sneaky right hand lead too.

I consider who they land the lead right hands on and Ellis landed them on lots of different guys and elite fighters. Thats one thing I don't like about say a Jones--landed on old guys only or B and C grade. Ellis landed that nice right hand his whole career & even fired off a few nice ones in that 2nd Frazier bout when he had 1 foot in the graveyard.

 

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Mayweather v N'dou

Watch it from the 1.30 mark.

Three/four great lead rights to finish.

 

That finish was a thing of beauty, espicially the 1st lead right, some of the lead rights he was landing on hatton as well, cracking.

As someone has already said probably the best or at least my favourite showing of lead rights is ali in the 1st round against foreman

 

Exactly what i was thinking of when i posted!!

 

Just a thing on Jones, im not taking away from him because he was effective as helll, which counts for more then anything else, but does anyone else feel that his right hands were hardly ever technically correct, you know, straight single rights, i hardly ever noticed any, they seemed to loop in a way. So fast that it didnt matter though.

 

Mayweather landed something like 5 or 6 lead right within a second or two span in his fight against Gatti.

Friggin' crazy.

 

I didn't know that. That's highly unusual, particularly for a heavyweight. (well, later heavyweight) There's got to be an interesting story behind that one.

 

Moorers KO punch was his powerful right hand... But he boxed with a right lead (Southpaw) watch some of his KO;s at light heavy... he would box you at range , hurt you badly and step in and drill you with a barricade of fast right hands and left hooks..

In particular .. The marcellus Allen fight , and as a heavyweight watch the speed he stepped in to finish Billy Wright once he had him hurt... (Holyfield v Bowe 1 undercard at Thomas Mack centre)

 

Speaking of Moorer;

Were you privy to any of those Moorer---Barber workouts/gym wars? I've heard about them & Barber was a handful for a short period of time. His career went downhill > the Dariusz Michalczewski loss & he sure hasn't stood the test of time too well. But back then he was the next groomed Manny Steward up and comer after Moorer and looked like a potential force to be reckoned with.

I've heard those sparring sessions were wars and tougher than the Moorer title defenses. Any insight you can shed?

 

Jersey Joe Walcott had a beautiful lead right hand when he lured his opponents in, and caught them. He put Joe Louis on the seat of his pants two or three times by doing just that.


Mayweather is very adept at it too. On top of the fight that have been mentioned, he really turned the Judah fight around with it. The majority of the first 5 rounds went to his opponent, but he started throwing the right hand lead more, and didn't lose a round since. Great weapon against a southpaw.

You need a lot of timing, handspeed and footwork to pull it off, but when you can, it's a thing of beauty.

 

Of the current crop, Mayweather, Marquez and Hopkins stand out the most.