Hahahaha yeah throwing a leaping hook at Joe Louis is pretty crazy really. Did Walcott get away with such a punch can anyone remember off the top of their heads? Louis is like, "yes, it's safe, of course, it's safe, it's safe, it's safe, it's safe, move into this space here, it's safe, it's safe, you'd be Ok, moving in here, look, see my right is down, APOOOA"
Bit, this is not as pronounced as your clip. Chavez catches Taylor just as he begins his leap, so its subtle, but I always remembered it. It is at the 9:20 mark of this highlight of Chavez-Taylor II This content is protected
You get full rotation and thus full power only if you let the right hand stay where it is in your stance, which will result in it “dropping down”
Not only that, he came in face-first because he threw his hook from such a wide angle, and he was squared-up too. Embarrassing display.
TBF, doing the "leaping left hook" is really hard for a big man with the right in place. The best at the skill would be Patterson: This content is protected Who does some semis with good guard, but when he throws the real leaping left, he's right arm seems to be extended almost all the way. If Johanson had shot out the right he would have taken his man's head off. Then you have the most famous examples: This content is protected The notion of a 200lbish man throwing this punch with best practice, yeah, not sure. That Patterson sequence is gorgeous.
People who will stand their ground and not back up and has good counterpunching and power like Louis, Holyfield, Lewis were people you didn’t do that against
This is the crux of the matter IMO. It's "don't do that against Joe Louis" not "do that against Joe Louis but glue your right hand to the middle of your face."
Considering the quadrilateral perpendicular plane of his opponents right index finder, Joe Louis wasn’t as impressive as you really think.