Punches with nicknames

[BoxBuzz]

I know there was a Hawaiian boxer that advertized his "Hawaiian punch". But for the life of me I can't remember his name. I don't think he made much of a "splash" so to speak.

[The Great John L]

I know there was a Hawaiian boxer that advertized his "Hawaiian punch". But for the life of me I can't remember his name. I don't think he made much of a "splash" so to speak.

Actually, I think that was Andy Gannigan's nick name.

[BoxBuzz]

I think your right....and he also had the nickname "Mizou" if I recall. If you were west coast in the 70/80's his fights would be televised from time to time. Had a good win streak for a while if memory serves.

[oliverfennell]

Brian Viloria currently uses that nickname, but I believe it's for himself rather than a particular punch.

[HomicideHenry]

Bartley Gorman called his kayo punch the 'Bull-Hammer', in reference to the way steers were put to death via a spike being hammered into their skull. I believe the blow was either a full-on hit to the forehead or behind the ear. Gorman kayoed Freedom Lee, his last opponent, with that same punch---one punch actually was all it seemed to have took against the twenty something upstart against the 50+ year old Gorman---and never fought again.

[Caractacus]

Aleanjro Lavaonte's "Key-Hole" punch which was specially designed to get thru Archie Moore's defense.

[Coco]

Ben Davison The Hollywood Punch

[Caractacus]

the "Pivot" blow
that George La Blanche introduced into the Middleweight title fight with the original "Nonpariel" Jack Dempsey
and knocked him out with it
later refered to as a 'swinging back-fist in later full contact Martial arts fights)
( the punch was shortly outlawed in professional boxing afterwards of course)
that fight was on August 1889 at the California A.C club and I think Jim J. Corbett was there to witness it.

[oogiebe]

The ole' one/two.

[DrDuke]

Deontay Wilder's shots gotta be classified as windmill punches.

[Caractacus]

Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson's "Scoop" punch.
which was a double upper-cut.
he said he developed it after watching 2 kangaroos fight.

[Sweet Dick Willie]

The kangaroo punch - Floyd pattersons left hook with both feet of teh ground

You don't see that very often these days!

[Caractacus]

I heard Floyd Patterson leaping left hook was called "the Gazelle Punch">

[Caractacus]

Tommy Hurricanr Jackson (along with his trainer Whitey Bimstrein)
also developed another punch just for his fight with Patterson,
called the "Yagash" punch.
which was a right-hand to the body directed downwards.

[Sweet Dick Willie]

The kangaroo punch - Floyd pattersons left hook with both feet of teh ground

You don't see that very often these days!

Oh actually for some reason I was thinking about some sort of insane jumping uppercut

[Caractacus]

from IRON AMBITION by Mike Tyson (2017)
page 75
when Mike Tyson moved into the Victorian Mansion in the Catskills in 1980.
He was taught a certain punch by Cus D'Amato.

"Early on, I learned a neat little trick.
It was a punch known as the Blinder.
You put your jab out and leave it in your opponents face
for a split second before the ref warns you.
Your glove blinds the guy for a second and you instantaneously spring to the right,
set your weight properly, and launch a six-five-two*.
It was lethal.

* Willie-Bag numbers
number 6= right hook to the spleen
number 5=left hook to the liver
number 2=right hook to the jaw

[Caractacus]

Sam Langford's "Old Betsy" ( a right-hand)

[elmersalsa]

The great Bob Fitzsimmons' "Solar Plexus Punch" that stopped Gentleman James J. Corbett to win the World Heavyweight Title.

[Caractacus]

Gunboat Smith's "Hospital" aka "Occipital" punch.
which was a down curving over-hand right hook
to just behind the left ear of his opponent,' when they had their chin almost down on their chest..

[Caractacus]

Jess Willard's "Heart Punch"
which he landed on the ribs just above the heart.
which was the punch that pretty much finished off
Jack Johnson in their fight.
ironically it was to become a favorite punch of Jack Dempsey
and it was the first punch he had used on Willard in their fight.
( although it seems to be missing from most of the available fight footage)

[Caractacus]

Mike Tyson's "The Brownsville Robber Punch"

[APerno]

Ruby Rob Fitzsimmins called his favorite body punch, his "shift punch." I.e. The Fitzsimmons Shift.

The newspaper guys gave it their own name, The Solar Plexus Punch, but Fitz always called it his 'shift punch.'

It was the footwork that gave it such power. It gained him the title from Corbett and DQed when it went low against Sharkey.

[bennie]

Not sure if it's been mentioned but Japanese boxing great Koichi Wajima threw 'frog jump' punches whereby he would squat down before bouncing up with a big shot.




Wajima is a forgotten fighter these days but he racked up six defences of the world light-middleweight title in the early 1970s before California's Oscar "Shotgun" Albarado finished him in the 15th round of a brutal encounter in Tokyo in 1974. Wajima, who was 31, looked finished but he shocked the boxing world by outscoring Albarado in another bruising 15-rounder in Tokyo seven months later. Wajima barely had time to enjoy it when a tasty Korean by the name of Je Doo Yuh flattened him in seven rounds in Japan in June 1975. Surely this time it was the end for Wajima but in 1976 he faced Yuh again and pulled off a miracle by knocking out his man in the 15th round to win the title for the third time. If they put the same storyline in a movie, nobody would believe it.

[Caractacus]

at 2:18 of this clip
Gunnery Sgt. Hartman's
The "Gomer Pyle" punch
starts out as a left uppercut to the thorax , and then suddenly switches to a right hand uppercut in mid-flight !

[Caractacus]

Terry McGovern's "Catapult Punch".