Top Heavyweight Boxers Best Punch Throughout History

[JimRaynor]

What was each boxers money shot from the past to now?

Joshua - Uppercut
W. Klitschko - Jab (Honorable Mention, Straight Right)
Wilder - Overhand Right

Lewis - Uppercut
V. Klitschko - Straight Right
Holyfield - Left Hook
Mike Tyson - Left Hook

Rid**** Bowe - Uppercut
G. Foreman - Straight Right
Holmes - Jab

[Monaco Slim]

David Haye HAYMAKER couldn't resist

[New England]

joe frazier - left hook

sonny liston - jab

floyd patterson - left hook

ingmar johannson = right hand

rocky marciano - short right hand

joe louis - right hand

[The Old LefHook]

Mike Tyson: The incisor clinch.

[TonyGe]

Donovan Razor Ruddock.
The Smash


Andrew Golota
The Nutcracker

[The Old LefHook]

Sometimes the punch was not that special but their best anyway. I like to talk about really special editions of punches fighters owned.

When a fighter only has one big punch, and especially when he is known as a one-handed fighter, that punch is almost invariably the lefhook. From Joe Frazier to Gerry Cooney to Tommy Morrison--anywhere in boxing, when a one-handed fighter makes it far, that one punch of theirs must be pretty special. Food for thought. Elementary, my dear Watson.

[The Old LefHook]

Tyson was the rarest breed of special puncher who throws every type of punch hard. Most of Tyson's weaponry was special. His straight right and his lefhook were heavy cannon, but also his up jab was strong and damaging. His uppercut almost saved his bacon in the long count with Douglas.

D'amato was not quite through polishing his diamond, he hadn't taught it to deal with tall boxers on the ropes who only wanted to tie you up or how to fight inside. Forget about Cus not being there to steer Tyson clear of the frenzy we witnessed, he was not even there to put the finishing touches on his protoge. Rooney the understudy was good at implementing what Cus had invented so far, but no inventor himself, and the people Tyson hired after Rooney could be eternal court jesters at the afterlife version of the Boxing Hall of Fame.

[TBear]

What was each boxers money shot from the past to now?

Joshua - Uppercut
W. Klitschko - Jab (Honorable Mention, Straight Right)
Wilder - Overhand Right

Lewis - Uppercut
V. Klitschko - Straight Right
Holyfield - Left Hook
Mike Tyson - Left Hook

Rid**** Bowe - Uppercut
G. Foreman - Straight Right
Holmes - Jab

For me, Lewis' right hand was the 'go to' punch.

Also Foreman's showed a lot of power in those looping punches. Amazing but often they appeared to be arm punches but still could take a man's head off.

Donovan Razor Ruddock.
The Smash


Andrew Golota
The Nutcracker

With Razor it was an awkward left hand. Sometimes a cross between a hook and uppercut.

Agree about Golota lol

[Tom Cruise]

Jack Johnson - Uppercut in the clinch
Jess Willard - Right hand?
Jack Dempsey - Left hook
Gene Tunney - Jab
Max Schmeling - Right hand
Sharkey - ??
Carnera - The knuckle duster Mafia punch
Max Baer - Straight right
Braddock - Overhand right/jab by the time he got to HW
Louis - Right hand
Charles - Jab
Joe Walcott - LEft hook
Marciano - overhand right
PAtterson - Left hook
Liston - Jab
Ali - Jab
Frazier - Left hook
Foreman - Hookercut
Spinks - ??
Holmes - Jab
M.Spinks - ??
Mike Tyson - Left hook
Buster douglas - Jab
Holyfield - Left hook
Moorer - Jab?
Briggs - Right hand
Lennox - overhand right
Rahman - Overhand right
Wlad Klit - Jab
Tyson Fury - Uppercut

[StarshipTrooper]

What was each boxers money shot from the past to now?

Joshua - Uppercut
W. Klitschko - Jab (Honorable Mention, Straight Right)
Wilder - Overhand Right

Lewis - Uppercut
V. Klitschko - Straight Right
Holyfield - Left Hook
Mike Tyson - Left Hook

Rid**** Bowe - Uppercut
G. Foreman - Straight Right
Holmes - Jab

Tyson has said in interviews his right was his best punch.