i mentioned this ko somewhere on here not too long ago. theres a morbid looking photo of this punch i have yet to find.

frazier’s knock down of ali is my fav. marcianos finishing touch on walcott is great as well.

some recent ones, tyson ko of carl williams.

arthur abraham had an epic left hook ko not to long ago. forgot who it was against though.

check hook on Hatton is one of my favourites too………Poor Ricky’s been on the wrong end of at least two beauts! :).
Hatton’s landed some good one’s and done some damage to the body in his time as well though.

1960: At the Polo Grounds in New York City, Floyd Patterson regained his Heavyweight belt when he flew through the air and hit Ingemar Johansson with a left hook from hell that had the Swede’s leg twitching while he lay unconscious. A frightening scene.

Both Ingo and Floyd died of dementia. Terrible end to two greats.

This is a test of spelling as I am now on Mozilla

In the 2nd Quarry fight, JQ waives him in and Frazier obliges, fakes the jab and throws the hook about 8 inches past JQ’s head, just spins his chin like a top.

vs. many.

vs. many,but specifically Larry Holmes,Trevor Berbick and Razor Ruddock.
Ruddock nailed Tyson with a few too!

would be; 1/Marciano v Walcott.
                  2/Robinson v Fullmer.
                  3/Frazier v Ali.

Although i will have to see the Walcott v Charles one again as i am sure i have it on dvd but can’t seem to picture it.

1968: In May before 12,000 fans at Madison Square Garden, Big Bob Foster destroyed Dick Tiger with a brutal left hook that sent Dick to dreamland. Ring Magazine would call the 4th the "Round of the Year." Two minutes into the round, Foster threw a right that missed and followed with a short hook that caught Tiger flush coming in. Tiger went down hard and was counted out for the first time in his long career. It had also been only his second knockdown in 77 fights.

Tiger would describe his experience to Ring Magazine afterward: "I do not see anything. I do not hear anything. Everything is all quiet, and it is dark. There is no pain, there is no sound. I do not know I was on the floor. Was I on the floor?"

1986: Tommy Morrison decked Razor Ruddock with as sweet and lethal a left hook as one can envision. Incredibly, the tough Ruddock got off the canvas but was then swarmed upon and dropped by the tiring Duke. This one occurred at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri and was a blood and guts affair to the max.

They almost cut Hearns in half and SRL followed up with the obvious hook to his thus exposed chin. Brilliant move.

No comment neccessary.

Scary timing, power and accuracy. Went down like a sack of shit.

Dirty shite

Mike McCallum vs. Donald Curry ONLY because I was there. Curry was a 3-1 betting favorite and was doing well until the 5th round when a left hook from McCallum came out of nowhere. Lou Duva (McCallum’s trainer) went nuts as usual. It’s on YouTube if anyone is interested. The all-time classic left hook, however, is Ali-Frazier I. How Ali got up from that hook thrown from Frazier’s heels is beyond belief! Ali had one Hell of a chin.

Randy Loathsome – All due respect, but the wording of Mike Quarry going down “like a sack of shit” was a bit offensive to me. In my opinion, he went down like a ton of bricks. Mike Quarry, or any Quarry for that matter, and “sack of shit” should not be used in the same sentence.

vincent pettway v. simon brown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UePW3w3_k9M

Leonard v Boy Green was one of the most vicious hooks I’ve seen. .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_4IfSckVsw

Simon Brown throwing combos after Petteway iced him was frigging scary .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh477BpDH6U&feature=related

Frazier,Bob Foster, Leonard , Tyson and Don Curry all had brilliant left hooks .

1984: Juan Meza struck Jaime Garza on the sweet point of his jaw with a savage counter hook, snapping his head violently to the side. His body twisted grotesquely and crashed hard to the canvas, his head bouncing dangerously off the canvas. Garza’s eyes rolled up into his head. He was in bad shape but made a valiant effort pull himself upright after rolling under the ropes. His effort was too little too late. Referee LoBianco reached the count of ten a split-second before Garza fully regained his feet, but he would have been in no shape to continue even if he had beaten the count. This one was in Kingston, NY.

Good Morning from Orstraya Ted , watched that one a few weeks ago , frigging incredible fight.

Speaking of good hooks to the gonads Cooneys efforts against Holmes was one of the better ones.

An all-time classic. “Don’t Blink.”

Joe Louis’ combo against Baer was one of my fave uses of the left hook, Ted . Joe had a really pretty hook. He was really good with the short hook like the one you mentioned Walcott landing against Charles. Jersey Joe manged to ping the bomber with that one a few times as well.

It wasn’t as glamorous because it wasn’t a head shot, however, that left hook to the body that Hopkins landed against De la Hoya paralyzed him! At least being KO’d with a head shot you don’t (I’m told) feel any pain, but De la Hoya was in big-time pain! The punch hurt me hundreds of miles away in front of the TV.

1999: Derrick "D Train" Jefferson almost decapitated Maurice Harris with a devastating hook that was named the 1999 Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year. Jefferson, at 6’6" and weighing 240 pounds, got everything into the shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Vrptx31_U&feature=related Geezuz Christ thats a left hook Ted. I dont know if Ive ever seen a harder punch landed in a fight. Thats on the level of Norris – Jackson and Hearns Duran .

Sam Peter vs. Jeremy Williams … Brutal!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6lNNw0Kq3k Fastest knockout in an Aussie Tent fight Ted , wtf was the bearded bloke doing by the way . Alcohol and fighting is a good comination for some blokes but not this fella. Tent fighting used to be quite big in small town bush Australia but its dying .

very LL another beauty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1eOR1Jejng&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYHjxgPeqKw

2007: Staten Island was the scene for Darnell ‘The Ding a Ling Man’ Wilson’s scary ending of his fight with former USBA cruiserweight champion, Emanuel Nwodo. The icing came after a short chase. It was a fully leveraged left hook that hit the trrapped and helpless Nwodo flush and rendered him a rag doll as he fell unconscious to the canvas. It was the type of knockout that made you wonder whether he would ever get up; it was chilling.

Decapaitation hooks are the most enjoyable. HHhmmm, does that make me sadistic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS77moBJnTM&feature=related jeezuz thats what you call iced .

Take it easy Ted , I’m going out for lunch with the better half to decapitate some prawns and assault a Coral Trout . Cheers Champ , always a pleasure mate!

Jeremy Williams’ brother, Jason, shared with me an interesting story about the Peter fight. Jason told me that Jeremy had a special mouthpiece made especially for that fight. He knew he might need to absorb some heavy shots to the head. After Jeremy was KO’d, the ref and medical personnel couldn’t get the mouthpiece out of Jeremy’s mouth. They were all extremely concerned with his health due to a lack of an open airway.

Ray Leonards KO of Davey “Boy” Green. Perfect shot.
GIl Clancy once said during a TV broadcast “Mexicans are born throwing left hooks”. The image of millions of infants throwing hooks has never left me.
“and the arm of the infants were raised in the air,
the day I saw Bo Diddley in Washington Square”
Willie Nile.

Dropped in the first and on the receiving end of a 22 punch flurry, Benn pulled out a left hook from hell.

Donald Curry KO Mike McCrory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bwJSvNQPaY&feature=related

Mike McCallum KO Donald Curry. Even more brutal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFYKe0CxmqA&feature=related

Goatsnake – When you “can’t get the link up,” try 100 mg of Viagra. It gets my “link up” every time!

DLH’s left hook that knocked vargas back to the barrio. not a KO shot, but it was still beautiful.

“Vargas back to the barrio.” Good one!

Dropped Berbick 3 times with the one left hook.

2005: Alan "Sweetness" Green proved to be anything but as he starched Jaidon Codrington in Oklahoma in just 18 seconds. Green set Codington up lethall combinations and then finished him off with a left hook to the chin that put him to sleep as he fell through the ropes. The savage victory earned Green the 2005 Ring Magazine KO of the Year. It was first believed that Codrington had suffered fractured sixth vertebrae. However, doctors retracted that diagnosis and Codrington was released after neurological tests and CAT scans of the vertebrae came back negative. Fortunately, he has fully recvovered and is now in the "Contender" series.

Perfect counter left hook and one of my favorite reactions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRUsRtJuVig

Brutal left hook had Kelley on queer street.

2nd round. A genuine left hook from the orthodox stance – as good as any.

Curiosly, Hamed, Jones, and Ali were amoong the few who could rock someone while backing up.

Daft twat went in looking to finish Jackson. Graham’s problem at the time was that he couldn’t draw flies to a turd because he was so defensive minded. For this fight, having ‘softened him up’, as he thought, he decided to go for it and left his chin open to the air and anything Jackson threw.

Has anyone mentioned Cooney over Norton where he alsmost killed him thanks to the referee?

Gatti over Gamache. Oh my God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=movtSx1mPYk

Someone mentioned Benn and Logan. I think it was Loathsome. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6_PTvPPW3Q

i dont agree with the list at all but its still fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiqaAehf1VA

…he duffed up Joe F with some pretty impressive ones too. For the final KD he looked like he was chopping a tree down in training. He even timed Frazier’s evasions to give him a bit of a cross-beat rhythm to deal with. Coming from Philly, Joe’s musical appreciation wasn’t up to the Texan back-beat concept. Although, technically, George didn’t lift Joe off the canvas, it’s still a pretty impressive way of trying to land on the canvas on the souls of his boots whilst his nervous system was short-circuited. Poor old Joe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFX0F0qUM-Q

That was sneaky Ted. I love how Walcott just walks straight up to Charles, draws the jab, dips , lets the punch sail over his right shoulder, and throws that natural hook in one fluid movement. Beautiful positioning. Ezzard’s head was almost at Walcott’s left shoulder when he launched that short hook. Awesome. Watched it a dozen times.

Yeah. I always tell youn guys who are thinking about boxing to look at this film as an introduction to the perfect hook. I also tell them to put a newspaper under their left arm and start throwing hooks and see how long they can keep that paper in place.

Recently, Bute taking out Andrade with a hook to the body was awesome. Remember that Bute had just put him on the canvas with a left hook to the head. So that makes TWO great hooks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuZAX_4Gg54

JERSEY JOE WAS A GREAT CUTIE.

One of my favourite old timers.Loved his style.

May I turn the crank?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gxn4_arturo-gatti-vs-joey-gamache-februa_sport

Gatti vs. Gamache.

Hi Beach. I once talked to Tommy about that one (in Latana, MA over breakfast) and he said that if the ref had not stopped it when he did, he was all done becuase he had gassed,

It was kind of halfway between a hook and an uppercut, but that left Ike Ibeabuchi hit Chris Byrd with is still one of the hardest, cleanest, nastiest shots I’ve ever seen. Just the way the sweat flies off of Byrd is amazing.

And, of course, the immortal “He knocked him stupid!”

Calzaghe decking Chrith Eubank in the first 15 seconds or so was a good punch. Eubank was known for a granite chin too.
Apologies if any one has already noted this one.
Randy!… How are you?

Like I said, not the best and yes, Eubank may have been past his best, but Calzaghe hadn’t quite reached his best, plus…. who else did you see do that to Eubank so quickly and so early into a fight?

Randy, great thanks. You’re being picky about that punch either.. Just wrong ;-)
Good to hear from you, by the way.

“not being picky”

The question being asked does exclude our southpaw cousins. Their left hook is a right hook. Joe had a good one. James Kirkland throws a mean right hook, so did Moorer.

Lads, the way I saw it is Joe punched Eubank in the “boat” with a left hand… Eubank was sent sliding across the ring on his derriere (that’s for you Randy).

So, if a southpaw throws a right hook, that’s technically left, all jokes aside, I truly never knew that.. well, you live and learn and keep learning. Thanks for the clarification.

A hook can come from either hand,as far as i am aware,but is much more common from the lead hand.
A left is a left,a right is a right.Doesn’t matter if you are orthodox stance or southpaw.
A southpaw can still throw a left hook and a wide right thrown by an orthodox fighter would still be a hook,imo.

Didn’t Tyrell Biggs break his right collarbone in a fight, but ultimately won the bout using only a left hook and left jab? I seem to remember watching that on TV back in the ’80s.

Danny Williams did a similar thing too. Against a guy called marc potter, he dislocated his shoulder. He showed reall guts by boxing on one handed. He won too . Then nearly fainted.. (with pain I suppoe!).

Interesting, Phil. Didn’t know that about Williams. I’ve had a broken collarbone and I damn sure wouldn’t want to hit and/or get hit.

Me too, fell of a skate board!!

Lettrelough on Gonzalez in Columbus, Ohio shootout!,

Joe Frazier has to be in there somewhere. Also, Finito Lopez.

mICKY wARD HAS TO HAVE A LOOK SEE AS WELL. MAN, HE DID IN BURTON, GREEN, QUIONEZ, NEARY, GATTI, LOPEZ AND OTHERS WITH THAT LASER SHOT TO THE BODY.

GDay blokes , as far as heavyweights there’s been a few . Frazier had the best hook because he could throw it from anywhere and didnt need to be set ( see the one he dropped Ali with ) . Dempsey and Tyson also come to mind as far as shortish attacking heavyweights with great left hooks as does Bert Cooper . Floyd Patterson has a great left hook as well as did Joe Louis . Out of the tall boxers Ali , Holyfield and Wlad Klitschko all have very underrated hooks . The one Ali dropped Bonavena with was a peach , almost Robinson like in the way Ali landed it as a counter while moving backwards. In the 9th round of the first Frazier fight Ali lands 3 or 4 left hooks in a row in an almost Roy Jones like display.Wlad K has always been able to hook off the jab like Ali , he just doesnt do it any more since he became more defensive in his style post Brewster 1 . LMAO Ted , Old ‘Enry did have a great left hook , I’m with Loathsome on that one , shame he had a glass jaw , no size and would bleed if he fell into a full swimming pool ;-) . Razor Ruddocks shovel hook was a bomb as was Gerry Cooneys sledgehammer . Lamont Brewster has probably had the best hook of the last 10 or so years . Tommy Morrison couldnt fight but he did have a great left hook . Cheers Donny I’ll have to have a think about the best hookers under heavyweight mate . Take it easy blokes .

Hagler probably had the best right hook I’ve seen a southpaw have while Pernell Whittaker had pound for pound probably the best jab I have ever seen . I wonder if being a lefty made his jab better than it would have been if Pea was orthodox. Michael Moorer also had a great jab and hook for a lefty .

Yeah, Cooney and Morrison both had great hooks.

Henry didn;t bleed as often as the legend has it – check out the record. He bled against Ali because Ali screwed his crosses as they landed.