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Throughout boxing who had the best individual punches.

If we were handing out awards who would you give these to?

Jab:
Straight Right:
Left Hook:
Rear Uppercut:
Lead Uppercut:
Overhand Right/left:
Left to body:
Right to body:

I'll start.

Jab: Larry Holmes
Straight Right: Hearns
Left Hook: Trinidad
Rear Uppercut: Hmm...Tyson or Lennox Lewis
Lead Uppercut: Roy Jones jr.
Overhand Right/left: Tim Witherspoon
Left to body: Mikey Ward
Right to body: Eric Morales and Hopkins are the only ones that come to mind.

Mine was quickly thrown together and it would be interesting to see my mind changed.

Winky wright completely bossed 2 hof fighters with a jab. Doesnt get any better than that

Joe Frazier had a great left hook

Chavez Sr had a great left to the body...

Wilfredo Gomez had great everything to the body...Salvador Sanchez just had an iron will...

Chavez and Jones did lots of things well. If we're talking about guys who really made a living with one tool, I might go with:

Jab: Ike Quartay
Straight Right: Roger Mayweather
Left Hook: David Tua

joe louis punch techinque was superb on every shot, total text book stuff, so crisp and compact whether he was throwing single shots or combos

i know he draws lol's here but wilders straight right is a bomb

AntonioMartin wrote: ↑30 Jan 2021, 10:45 ..Salvador Sanchez just had an iron will...

strange you pick that amongst all his more obvious qualities

Counter-puncher wrote: ↑01 Feb 2021, 08:26

AntonioMartin wrote: ↑30 Jan 2021, 10:45 ..Salvador Sanchez just had an iron will...

strange you pick that amongst all his more obvious qualities

Because I was saying how Gomez had great every punch...and I say it showing Sal the utmost respect, to have that will in boxing you have to be very courageous.

But yeah, Sanchez also had great technique, an iron jaw, great reach, an immense condition, a superior training capacity, good power in both hands, he had everything..

He was hittable, Gomez actually lacked one punch power as prodigious as his record was. Sal just walked through him.

Harold Johnson had a great jab- it's difficult for me to rank the very best, however; so many great jabbers.

shadowsfall wrote: ↑28 Jan 2021, 16:19Jab:
Straight Right:
Left Hook:
Rear Uppercut:
Lead Uppercut:
Overhand Right/left:
Left to body:
Right to body:

Always an interesting conversation, especially when it is filtered down to a single division.
I will go with Heavyweight.

Jab: Muhammad Ali (machine gun-like)
Straight Right: Rocky Marciano (that suzy Q)
Left Hook: Jack Dempsey
Right Hook: Vitali Klitchsko
Rear Uppercut: George Foreman
Lead Uppercut: Mike Tyson
Left to body: Joe Frazier
Right to body: Deontay Wilder

has wilder ever even thrown a body punch?

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑07 Mar 2021, 01:54 has wilder ever even thrown a body punch?

I had to put Wilder in there somewhere... Imagine him using his leverage and sinking one in to the body... Boom!!
Be a painful one...

Besides having a great right cross to the jaw, the great Thomas Hearns had a great left hook to the body.

Other great left hookers that threw it to the body:
Julio Cesar Chavez
Joe Frazier
Mike Tyson
Alexis Arguello
Ruben Olivares
Roberto Duran

Another one with a left hook to the body:

Mike McCallum of course. The Body Snatcher!