did julio cesar chavez had the best LEFT HOOK TO THE BODY/LIVER

[ralph22]

did jc chavez had the best and most efective left hook to the body or do you think there was someone else with a better left hook.the media really respects julio's left hook

[JAB5239]

did jc chavez had the best and most efective left hook to the body or do you think there was someone else with a better left hook.the media really respects julio's left hook

JCC had a great left to the body and was very effective. But MY favorite left to the body is from Tommy Hearns. He didn't use it as often as JCC, but when he did he folded guys up like lawn chairs.

[ralph22]

you know the cotto intill mid 08 had a great left hook lampley called miguel a puerto rican chavez but cotto's were too wide and he brought the gaurd down unlike chavez it was at short distance straight protecting himself from countershot

[BKM-]

I always give the same answer to this topic. I've never seen a more effective left hook to the body than Gerald McClellan. In fact he ended most of his early fights with that punch alone. Everytime it landed it either hurt the opponent badly, was the beginning of the end or pretty much ended the fight right away.

[Steward]

tito had a good left hook to the body, in the respect that the guard would drop and one would follow up top.

robinson had a nice liver punch.

[southerndandy]

I loved Hearns body shot against Barkley. Up until the KO, Hearns was doing a number on him.

I like MAB's left hook as well, and there are others such as Frazier, Micky Ward, of course, and Hagler too. But I think in strictly the left hook to the body, JCC had the best, but Arguello is imo the greatest body puncher of all time, and McCallum second.

[BennyST]

I have to say that for pure fight changing power and perfection Micky Ward's hook was bloody gold. He set it up brilliantly from the clinch, doubled it up....Great shot. It's a pity he didn't have the same skill with other parts of his game.

Could have been so, so much better. Messed up a lot of good fighters and changed many fights completely with nothing but that single punch.

Hearns' has to be one of the greatest though. That was brutal.

[FkDaHtrs]

I don't know if Chavez did anything better than anyone else, but he was a hell of a fighter and one of the toughest ever.

[BennyST]

I have to say though, that while the left hook is the most important body shot, I think one of the highly underused punches in the game, because it is so difficult to land and throw, is the counter right uppercut to the sternum/heart/body. Eddie Futch taught it very well as did Freddie Brown and Ray Arcel.

For guys who use it well, and there are not many of them at all, it was one of the most devastating shots in their arsenal. Mike McCallum and Roberto Duran were the two best exponents of it that I've seen.

The shot that really killed Julian Jackson to the body was that counter right. Like James Toney would shoot his counter right after a straight right from the opponent, both McCallum and Duran would use it so effectively when the opponent threw a straight right and they would drop down and slide in and under the right hand and shoot it right into the exposed body/heart. It's so unexpected as well. When you are as open to that area as you are when you throw a right and it sails over the top of the opponent, leaving your whole torso open and you are also leaning over them with the momentum of the right pulling you forward, the uppercut to the heart is just so brutal and unexpected that when it lands it freezes you from head to toe.

It's such a rare punch that when you see a guy use it you know immediately they are brilliantly trained and highly skilled fighters. It's got be up there with my favourite all time punches. Just a great shot.

[RubenSonny]

Sweetpea had excellent body punches.