Check hooks

[FrazierFan]

Where on YouTube could I find a good example of a check hook?

What boxers were noted for being good with that punch?

Thanks.

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[Polymath]

Mayweather Hatton and Donaire Darchynyan are on youtube.

[Xplosive]

Roy Jones had the best ever check hook. Forget Mayweather-Hatton... if you wanna see a beautiful check hook... check out Roy's KO of Sugar Boy Maligna.

[GazOC]

I wish the search function on this forum went back far enough to find out how often "check hook" had been used before December 2006.

[GPater11093]

best one i ever saw was mayweather hatton that was text book

[Mantequilla]

otherwise known as catvhing someone coming in(aka checking their advance) with a well timed left hook.

[mr. magoo]

How does one balance a check hook?

[ishy]

I wish the search function on this forum went back far enough to find out how often "check hook" had been used before December 2006.

:lol: December '07 though Gaz not '06

[GazOC]

:lol: December '07 though Gaz not '06

Ah, sorry. Yes, 07.:good

This time of year always fucks me up, I'll be signing checks "2008" well into Febuary.:patsch

[Unforgiven]

Ezzard Charles knocked down Jersey Joe Walcott with a beauty.

[TommyV]

otherwise known as catvhing someone coming in(aka checking their advance) with a well timed left hook.

Is that what it is?

I always though it was rotating 180 degrees after/while throwing the hook by pivoting on your left foot.

[Mantequilla]

Well, that's one of the main(and safest) options available to a fighter letting a counter or lead hook go against an incoming oppponent.Moving off to the side rather than backing straight up for a bit, or initiating a clinch if the shot doesn't hurt the opponent etc..

I don't thnk the focus is on the footwork here so much as the situation when the punch is thrown.

Different trainers from different era's will have their own names for certain moves of course.I bet many don't complicate things by going much further than the usual lead\counter prefixes for any punch.

[Coetzeefan101]

Arguello repeatedly used the check hook against Mancini in their fight.

[rodney]

otherwise known as catvhing someone coming in(aka checking their advance) with a well timed left hook.

Exactly.
Thats all it is.

[red cobra]

I wish the search function on this forum went back far enough to find out how often "check hook" had been used before December 2006.
I'd never heard of the damned term before the Mayweather-Hatton bout. I think it's a bogus, b.s. type of term like "hate crime". It's just a damned hook that catches guy that's coming in aggressively, that's all. Was the left that Robinson ko'ed Fullmer with a "check hook"? A new-age bastard terminology to describe a normal, everyday left hook.

[Arka]

Surely the left hook that Sugar Ray used to KO Fullmer is the same thing as the OP described? :think

[Bigcat]

Check Hook is a term i used to hear around the gym years ago, it hadn't been heard for a hella long time before young Floyd aired the term after sliding that hook home against Hatton... Re birth of tha check hook, which is indeed just a very well timed counter that can look very spectacular if you leave your opponent dead in your wake .. Ray Robinson was a master technician of that discipline ... Floyd was raised in boxing from the womb , he probably saw and heard that termanology sinse being in his stroller...

[Sonny Carson]

I'd never heard of the damned term before the Mayweather-Hatton bout. I think it's a bogus, b.s. type of term like "hate crime". It's just a damned hook that catches guy that's coming in aggressively, that's all. Was the left that Robinson ko'ed Fullmer with a "check hook"? A new-age bastard terminology to describe a normal, everyday left hook.
Man shut your dumb ass up. Check Hook has been a term for years. Real fighter's know what a check hook is, it's just dumbass fans like you who know nothing about it. Manny Steward called it a check hook before Floyd did because that's what it was. They know boxing, you don't.

[Addie]

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[BITCH ASS]

Man shut your dumb ass up. Check Hook has been a term for years. Real fighter's know what a check hook is, it's just dumbass fans like you who know nothing about it. Manny Steward called it a check hook before Floyd did because that's what it was. They know boxing, you don't.

So what is it?

Explain.

[HomicideHenry]

Lewis-Briggs....

[jones1]

a check hook is simply catching a hook with your right hand and throwing a hook at the same time. nothing more nothing less. i know this for absolute sure. roger mayweather explains it in a pad video of his i have on dvd. thats all it is. like checking a kick in kickboxing.

[red cobra]

How come that term aggravating term "check hook" has suddenly cropped up since the Mayweather-Hatton fight? Mayweather didn't invent a new damned punch. It's just a damned LEFT HOOK!!!! Sounds like a term dreamed up by some feverish fan-boy ESPN type.

[Shake]

I am eagerly awaiting the invention of the checkmate-hook.

[red cobra]

Man shut your dumb ass up. Check Hook has been a term for years. Real fighter's know what a check hook is, it's just dumbass fans like you who know nothing about it. Manny Steward called it a check hook before Floyd did because that's what it was. They know boxing, you don't.
Bullshit. You're full of shit up to your ears. I've been following boxing for more than 40 years, just boxing, no other sport, devour boxing magazines, watch fights on tv religiously for years and have NEVER heard of the term. You can't argue a point anymore intelligently than that? It may have been and maybe is today a term used in the fistic community, but BROADCASTERS and SPORTSWRITERS have only recently been using the term...clean out your fuckin' head before you go off on me asshole...

[janitor]

I am eagerly awaiting the invention of the checkmate-hook.

Sam Langford deployed it twice against Harry Wills but then it was lost.

[Sonny Carson]

Bullshit. You're full of shit up to your ears. I've been following boxing for more than 40 years, just boxing, no other sport, devour boxing magazines, watch fights on tv religiously for years and have NEVER heard of the term. You can't argue a point anymore intelligently than that? It may have been and maybe is today a term used in the fistic community, but BROADCASTERS and SPORTSWRITERS have only recently been using the term...clean out your fuckin' head before you go off on me asshole...
It's a term used in the midwest you bitch. Manny Stewerd used the term before Mayweather used it, so it wasn't invented by some ESPN commentator. If you have ever boxed before(which I have) you would know what it was. But you've been listening to commentator's who have never fought like you, so of course you wouldn't know what it was.

[SnakeFist7]

It's a term used in the midwest you bitch. Manny Stewerd used the term before Mayweather used it, so it wasn't invented by some ESPN commentator. If you have ever boxed before(which I have) you would know what it was. But you've been listening to commentator's who have never fought like you, so of course you wouldn't know what it was.


so much aggression and so much anger lol.

[red cobra]

It's a term used in the midwest you bitch. Manny Stewerd used the term before Mayweather used it, so it wasn't invented by some ESPN commentator. If you have ever boxed before(which I have) you would know what it was. But you've been listening to commentator's who have never fought like you, so of course you wouldn't know what it was.
If you can't control yourself any better than that then you belong in the General Forum, where people like you abound. Mighty touchy, arent you? Don't attack me personally asshole, since you don't know me or what the hell you're taling about, just try to explain yourself in a somewhat intelligent manner, or go to the General Forum where they toss the term "bitch" around like a bunch of monkeys for lack of an ability to properly express themselves.

[spion]

I'd never heard of the damned term before the Mayweather-Hatton bout. I think it's a bogus, b.s. type of term like "hate crime". It's just a damned hook that catches guy that's coming in aggressively, that's all. Was the left that Robinson ko'ed Fullmer with a "check hook"? A new-age bastard terminology to describe a normal, everyday left hook.


Yep it is a new term and you can get the same result for it by just typing in hook or left hook.

[Bokaj]

Ezzard Charles knocked down Jersey Joe Walcott with a beauty.

Isn't that rather a counter hook, since Walcott had just missed a left hook himself and got countered?

[leverage]

joe frazier, gerry cooney, mike tyson, razor rudduck

[LDJB81]

what is a check hook????

[red cobra]

There's a great deal of confusion as to what a "check hook" really is.

[Rebel-INS]

If anyone actually watched the Mayweather-Hatton fight you would see that Emmanuel Steward uses the term just after it lands, I believe he says it was a text book check hook.
So as you see, it wasn't just something made up by Floyd.

[c woodhouse]

if you land a pefect left hook u go and pick your check up simple as that!!

[TommyV]

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At precisely 4:28 you will see a perfect example of a check left hook. It's more specific than catching a fighter with a left hook on the way in, as is the case with the Donaire-Vic fight.

It's catching a fighter and then pivoting out of the way so that they sail past you, as is shown here when Floyd check-hook's Hatton into the turnbuckle.

[Thread Stealer]

what is a check hook????

My trainer says it's when you throw a hook and the guy coming at you, and then you slide out. So Mayweather-Hatton fits perfectly, but others that are mentioned do not qualify under this description.

[spion]

Why it needs it's own special classification is ridiculous. Mayweather simply caught Hatton lunging in with a left hook and he moved left to avoid Hatton. He was doing it a lot in the fight. When a fighter lunges or falls in behind his cross it is typical to slip to the outside and hook. Your body is in a natural position to throw that particular punch. Tyson would slip outside a right cross and left hook his opponents too. Classic move. Maybe at Kronk they call it a check hook but that counter has been taught for years. I have never heard it labeled a "check" hook till Steward said it on the broadcast. I didn't hear Floyd say that he caught Hatton coming in with a check hook. Whatever the case, I hope that after all this you finally found the info you have been searching for! LOL

[AceNguyen]

Manny Steward calls it "a perfect check left hook" right after Mayweather lands it.

In the post-fight interview right after the KO, Mayweather says he caught Hatton with a "check hook" that he learned from the master trainers in Michigan.

If the term "check hook" doesn't exist, how come both Steward and Mayweather used it to describe the punch without speaking to each other?

[spion]

Have looked at some post fight interviews on youtube but cannot find Floyd saying that. If you can post it. If he did then freaking fantastic! The "check hook" will be the most devastating new/old punch in boxing!

[Russell]

joe frazier, gerry cooney, mike tyson, razor rudduck

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

Love people that come into threads and post without reading a thing in them. LOVE it.

[imp4pdabest]

Roy Jones had the best ever check hook. Forget Mayweather-Hatton... if you wanna see a beautiful check hook... check out Roy's KO of Sugar Boy Maligna.


Actually not! The PBF hook was better because it was also a definition of how to use the check hook. He used the perfect punch at the perfect time. Jones just used it cause thats what he does.

[GPater11093]

Acenyguan

i heard that as well it was in the post fight interview that Mayweather said it as i remember reading it in the newspaper

[AceNguyen]

PROOF that the term "check hook" wasn't invented by internet nerds:

Steward calls it a "check left hook" right as it happens:

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Floyd calls it a check hook right after the fight:

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[Sonny Carson]

PROOF that the term "check hook" wasn't invented by internet nerds:

Steward calls it a "check left hook" right as it happens:

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Floyd calls it a check hook right after the fight:

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Thank you for the proof, the reason why I was upset was that it seemed like people were gettin on Mayweather like he was being arrogant and invented a new term for a certain left hook. The term "check hook" has used for years in the midwest and Manny called it before Floyd did. It's a term used when a lunging fighter comes in and get's decked by a left hook.

[RDJ]

Mayweather threw loads of them against Chico as well. It's a legitimate term.

[Henke67]

I first heard the term in RJJ's post-fight interview after the Mccallum fight.

[josak]

ive always thought of the check left hook as kind of a counter left hook thrown while moving/leaning backwards. RJJ threw it religiously in his fights, especially against southpaws.

[Mike South]

Thank you for the proof, the reason why I was upset was that it seemed like people were gettin on Mayweather like he was being arrogant and invented a new term for a certain left hook. The term "check hook" has used for years in the midwest and Manny called it before Floyd did. It's a term used when a lunging fighter comes in and get's decked by a left hook.

It's called research, boys. Look into it.

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[Bigcat]

The term has been used for years, i remember being taught as a young man by an old time trainer to throw a single shot whilst moving away from the opponent leaving the opposition bemused and disorientated.. Check Left hook is synonimous with the way a clever boxer should always throw single shots against a man coming in square on aggressively .. Hatton was tired and a prime candidate for that shot, Floyd knew that like Tuesday followed monday.........

[The Wanderer]

In a little bit of a reversal, (since it' usually the boxer throwing it and the puncher walking into it) Chavez used one to knock down Taylor in their rematch.

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[leverage]

Check out razor rudducks near decapitation of micheal dokes, arguellos hook against alfredo escalera, and tysons hook against carl williams.

[mrbassie]

I'd never heard of the damned term before the Mayweather-Hatton bout. I think it's a bogus, b.s. type of term like "hate crime". It's just a damned hook that catches guy that's coming in aggressively, that's all. Was the left that Robinson ko'ed Fullmer with a "check hook"? A new-age bastard terminology to describe a normal, everyday left hook.

Too true. Exactly as no'one used the term "legacy" before Lennox Lewis said something about it. Funny how these things catch on. Sheep will follow sheep, I suppose.

[Bummy Davis]

Charles had one of the best

[RDJ]

Too true. Exactly as no'one used the term "legacy" before Lennox Lewis said something about it. Funny how these things catch on. Sheep will follow sheep, I suppose.

Read the fucking thread mate, the term has been used in numerous HBO broadcasts before that, by both RJJ and Steward.

[jones1]

I'm telling you guys, the term check hook means catching a left hook with your right glove and firing your own left hook. Watch the Ringside Pad Drills DVD, Roger Mayweather describes it then goes through the motions with some amateur girl. Thats all it is. Watch the DVD.:deal

[mrbassie]

Read the fucking thread mate, the term has been used in numerous HBO broadcasts before that, by both RJJ and Steward.

Put the handbag down on the ground and step slowly away!

[Sonny Carson]

Put the handbag down on the ground and step slowly away!
That girl in your avatar has a quality ass.