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Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 14 Feb 2013, 18:12
by littlepug
I know this accolade is usually reserved for srr but for me curry slipping the jab and knocking out mcrory with counter hook was pure genius

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 14 Feb 2013, 18:13
by SaadOffTheDeck
Holyfield/Bowe III

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 14 Feb 2013, 18:29
by giacomino
Don't know if it was the best ever, but Jorge Castro on John David Jackson in Round 9 was memorable
Frazier v Ali I was also nice

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 14 Feb 2013, 18:41
by Nile4000
The one Michael Spinks landed on Marvin Johnson was straight up serious coldcock.

Ray Leonard's hook on Davey Boy Green was nothing less than awesome.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 14 Feb 2013, 19:12
by Expug
Bob Foster - Mike Quarry , Ray Robinson - Gene Fullmer. Giacaminos call on Frazier - Ali is right on also. That was a tremendous shot. Especially late in the fight.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 00:10
by SaadOffTheDeck
Nile4000 wrote:The one Michael Spinks landed on Marvin Johnson was straight up serious coldcock.
I recall that being an uppercut.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 00:46
by NICARAGUAN NIGHTMARE
Robinson Fullmer
Mayweather Hatton was nice to.
Also Floyd smacked Corrales around with a few nice ones to.
Hopkins De La Hoya

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 02:20
by Jpreisser
You fellas are missing a crucial one. How about that beauty Walcott landed on Charles: http://youtu.be/i0hZKnQ07IE .
I think the hook landed on Johansson by Patterson was brutal as well: http://youtu.be/PoK50XlZUDg .
Tommy Morrison had some nice ones, especially on this boy in blue: http://youtu.be/ze3ycQjA5NA?t=1m28s
And the only knockout that has ever shocked me while watching a fight: Wilson vs Nwodo: http://youtu.be/OS77moBJnTM . This was so vicious.
Donaire`s stunning knockout over Darchinyan: http://youtu.be/VQLbi2duG5E and one the most beautiful counters over a right hand I have ever seen in his left hook that knocked out Montiel: http://youtu.be/chxmYF4m2xg

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 05:17
by orbtastic
Tua/Ruiz.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 07:03
by Ezzard
Most have been mentioned…

Curry-McCrory
McCallum-Curry
Leonard-Green
Holyfield-Bowe III
Foster-Quarry (actually frightening)
Foster-Tiger
Robinson-Fullmer
Robinson-Graziano
Callejas-Stecca (often under the radar)

Great left hookers

Dempsey
Frazier
Chavez
Pintor

Underrated left hookers – these guys had such great right hands people overlook their left hook

Louis
Hearns

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 09:01
by Chuck1052
Bob Foster had an awesome left-hook. Like Sugar Ray Leonard, Carlos Palomino also knocked out Dave "Boy" Green with a tremendous left-hook to the head. Green was "out" for quite awhile.

- Chuck Johnston

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 09:47
by Ezzard
Green’s big punch was nicknamed the muck spreader. I think he used to work on a farm.

I remember him tagging Leonard with it…maybe the round before…and ray decided enough was enough… in later life Dave looked Ray up when in the US and Leonard invited him over to his house…and treated him really well.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 10:01
by Old bones Ian
Micky Hughes knocking out Gary Jacobs, well behind on points and Jacobs looking comfortable then 1 left hook by Hughes and the ref could of counted to 100

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 15:05
by thunderfromdownunder
First KD of the De La Hoya Mayorga fight

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 15:26
by BoxBuzz
Frazier through a History making Left Hook which by all measures seemed educatedly refined, one night in Madison Square Garden.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 15:42
by IKSRTFO
Frazier threw some beauties, even on Ali.
DLH's hook of Vargas was legendary.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 16:19
by The Great John L

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 16:28
by macaca
Jpreisser wrote:You fellas are missing a crucial one. How about that beauty Walcott landed on Charles: http://youtu.be/i0hZKnQ07IE .
I think the hook landed on Johansson by Patterson was brutal as well: http://youtu.be/PoK50XlZUDg .
Tommy Morrison had some nice ones, especially on this boy in blue: http://youtu.be/ze3ycQjA5NA?t=1m28s
And the only knockout that has ever shocked me while watching a fight: Wilson vs Nwodo: http://youtu.be/OS77moBJnTM . This was so vicious.
Donaire`s stunning knockout over Darchinyan: http://youtu.be/VQLbi2duG5E and one the most beautiful counters over a right hand I have ever seen in his left hook that knocked out Montiel: http://youtu.be/chxmYF4m2xg
Do you think the ref should have stopped this earlier? I am 50/50 on it.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 19:42
by yancey
The Great John L wrote:A pretty good Frazier hook
Glad Frazier-Foster got mentioned. That was a very impressive hook.

After that fight, in the dressing room, Foster started lacing up his boxing shoes.

Bob's trainer asked him what the hell he was doing. Foster replied that he was getting ready for the fight.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 20:06
by MEISINGER
yancey wrote:
The Great John L wrote:A pretty good Frazier hook
Glad Frazier-Foster got mentioned. That was a very impressive hook.

After that fight, in the dressing room, Foster started lacing up his boxing shoes.

Bob's trainer asked him what the hell he was doing. Foster replied that he was getting ready for the fight.
good shout out.i believe i read foster said that was the hardest he was ever hit.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 15 Feb 2013, 20:08
by MEISINGER

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 16 Feb 2013, 02:03
by Jpreisser
macaca wrote:
Jpreisser wrote:You fellas are missing a crucial one. How about that beauty Walcott landed on Charles: http://youtu.be/i0hZKnQ07IE .
I think the hook landed on Johansson by Patterson was brutal as well: http://youtu.be/PoK50XlZUDg .
Tommy Morrison had some nice ones, especially on this boy in blue: http://youtu.be/ze3ycQjA5NA?t=1m28s
And the only knockout that has ever shocked me while watching a fight: Wilson vs Nwodo: http://youtu.be/OS77moBJnTM . This was so vicious.
Donaire`s stunning knockout over Darchinyan: http://youtu.be/VQLbi2duG5E and one the most beautiful counters over a right hand I have ever seen in his left hook that knocked out Montiel: http://youtu.be/chxmYF4m2xg
Do you think the ref should have stopped this earlier? I am 50/50 on it.
When I was watching the fight I was thinking it would be stopped soon because Wilson was landing a large volume of punches. I figured Wilson would land a few more and the ref would call it. I think the ref could have easily stopped it earlier because Nwodo was on shaky legs quite a few times and seemed incapable of return-fire. I had no problem with him not stopping it though. Massive shot Nwodo took because of it though.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 16 Feb 2013, 17:29
by gilgamesh
One of my favorites is Tua crushing Ruiz in 19 seconds with basically just two massive hooks.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 16 Feb 2013, 21:30
by Jpreisser
gilgamesh wrote:One of my favorites is Tua crushing Ruiz in 19 seconds with basically just two massive hooks.
Too bad Ruiz`s career did not end with that hook. That shot on the way down was vicious. Tua had huge power.

Re: Best left hook ever thrown ?

Posted: 17 Feb 2013, 05:26
by orbtastic
Old bones Ian wrote:Micky Hughes knocking out Gary Jacobs, well behind on points and Jacobs looking comfortable then 1 left hook by Hughes and the ref could of counted to 100
The way it ended reminds me of Starling/Molinares a little.