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Didn't Kell Brook talk about his punches being 'chocolate brownies'?

Willie Lewis (early 1900's welterweight contender and good friend of Joe Jeanette)
the "Old One-Two" punch

Gus Ruhlin's 'scissors punch"

Georges Carpentiers "Waltz punch"

Brutu wrote: ↑04 Dec 2009, 01:36 Wasnt it Kid Gavilan who invented the"Bolo punch",which was half hook and half uppercut?
Reportly he devolped it from cuttina.g sugar cane back in Cub

Dude, Ceferino Garcia had the "Bolo punch' years earlier.

Henry Armstrong's "Sneaker" right .

Henry Armstrong had discribed that punch in his 1956 autobiography
Gloves, Glory & God
page 126.

"People began to talk about his slashing, tearing style and peculiar looping right.
It was a punch that he just picked up, somewhere.
He never could recall that he had seen anybody do it that way before he began using it.
A fast, high flickering blow, the hand moved in a circular path over the opponents left shoulder.
Mostly it struck the head and the glove was on it's way back before the dazed fighter knew what had hit him.
When that looping right really connected, the opponent usually didn't know anything more, until revived at the count of ten.
it wasn't a spectacular punch from the spectators view-point-except in it's effects.
Most of them didn't see the looping right flick out and back.
those who saw it-except a few who really knew fight technique-didn't know just how to classify it.
It was neither jab nor hook nor swing.
It had less preliminary but more consequences than any of them.
and the glove traveled only a few inches in it's round trip".

One doesn't need to be an "Albert Einstein" or even a Sherlock Holmes
to see where Henry Armstrong (sub-consciously) may have developed that punch.
In reading his own 1956 autobiography he states that after he graduated from HS and had turned 18
around 1930.
he got a job as a section hand on the Missouri Pacific railroad,
and was using a heavy sledge-hammer driving spikes on the railroad.
It had bult up his shoulders arms and back with the swinging.
he also made it a practice to chase the hand-car for miles to build up his legs and stamina.
He had the job for six months (at 20 dollars a week)
then he was laid off.
he had helped build the railroad from Appleton City Missouri to Carondelet Missouri,
a distance of 264 miles (that's a lot of spikes!)
( perhaps the Missouri Pacific RR should consider renaming that stretch "The Henry Armstrong Way" (?)

Da "Peanut-Cruncher" punch

Muhammad Ali -- anchor punch (taught to him by Stepin Fetchit)
Marciano -- Mary Ann (right hand)

"rabbit Punch" used by a lot of guys

Georges Carpentier's "Waltz punch"
( in which he had knocked out Bombardier Billy Wells with)
and was planning on using on Jack Dempsey.
here is how a reporter discribed the punch leading up to the fight with Jack Dempsey

"The punch is started by a feint that brings Carpentier behind his opponent.
Carpentier then wheels him about to face him catching him on the jaw..
Something that looks like an overhand right hook to the chin.
in delivering this punch Carpentier's entire body is out of position and strained".

of course it was easier for Georges Carpentier (at 5 ft 11.5" tall and 174 lbs)to have delivered the "Waltz Punch"
on someone like Ted Lewis at 5 ft 7.5 and 166 lbs
then a Jack Dempsey at 6 ft 1" and 187 lbs.

delisa wrote: ↑24 Dec 2025, 17:43 Muhammad Ali -- anchor punch (taught to him by Stepin Fetchit)

Stephen Fetchit had said that he had learned it "watching old fight films
of Jack Johnson' So which fights of Jack Johnson did Johnson use the "Anchor punch" ?

Jack Dempsey's "Sneak Punch".
Incredible. the Sharkey camp was preparing for it, and still got caught with it !
(article at lower left of newspaper page)
July 1927

https://books.google.com/books?id=kJIrA ... pg=PA11&dq

before it became the 'anchor punch" it was known as the "Mystery Punch'
that Ali was going to use in the first fight with Liston in Miami Beach
February-13-1964
https://books.google.com/books?id=w2ZSA ... pg=PA36&dq

Sonny Liston on the "Anchor Punch".
May 1965
https://google.com/books?id=RdpIAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA3&dq

It wasn't nick-named (as far as I know)but supposedly Lightweight Dal Hawkins was the first to employ
the "Left Hook to the Liver" to dispatch his opponent
around 1902.
https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/10974

a short left hook to the Liver had also been Gene Tunney's preferred punch too.
check out this article from May 1925.

https://books.google.com/books?id=mQxTA ... pg=PA22&dq

Phil Scott had a "secret punch" (an inside right-hand uppercut) but he never got around to nick-naming it, it seems.


https://books.google.com/books?id=ecwmA ... pg=PA14&dq

I recall coming into the 2nd Pacquiao-Morales bout that Pacquiao's camp had talked about a new punch they had developed called "Manila Ice"

I'm not sure it ever appeared in the fight or if so what it was. It was never mentioned again after that I don't think.

gilgamesh wrote: ↑02 Jan 2026, 20:44 I recall coming into the 2nd Pacquiao-Morales bout that Pacquiao's camp had talked about a new punch they had developed called "Manila Ice"

I'm not sure it ever appeared in the fight or if so what it was. It was never mentioned again after that I don't think.

Would’ve been outstanding if Manny came into the ring with the song ice ice baby cranking

Tim Witherspoon's "The Can-Opener".

Light Heavyweight Champion Mike Rossman aka "The Kosher Butcher"
"Chamallye" punch

Usyk called the punch he knocked Dubois out with ‘Ivan’ (explained it as being a name for ‘a big guy who lives in a village and works on a farm’)

Reg Gutteridge used to call the double jab The Postman’s Knock.