Sweetest Straight-right In the history of boxing?

[Leeroy]

For me it's a no contest;It's the straight right hand Marciano landed on Louis that sent him flying through the ropes and ALMOST out of the ring - Rocky Marciano put his WHOLE body behind that punch,combined with all his might. It was wicked and the sweetest/most powerfull sraight-right I have ever seen - especially in terms of power and end result.

[salsanchezfan]

Can't say any one shot, really. Too many great ones to mention.

However, there were a few practitioners that were pretty routine with the way they wrecked guys with that punch.......

Arguello
Rosario
Hearns (the rights he landed against Duran or Cuevas might qualify)
Michael Spinks
Danny Lopez
Duran
Louis
Lennox Lewis


Etc. etc.......

[justaboxingfan]

I bet there are better ones but Klitschko/Brock stands out in my books. That punch looked as if it went right through his face, then his body goes numb

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[Tencount85]

The one lampley gave to his girlfriend

[Leeroy]

I bet there are better ones but Klitschko/Brock stands out in my books. That punch looked as if it went right through his face, then his body goes numb

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Well that's what I compared it to earlier - but if you watch the Marciano/Louis fight - in round 8 when he landed that punch;You could picture his fist crushing his face.

Wlad's right in that fight doesn't compare...Close but Marciano put him unconscious and through the ropes.

[salsanchezfan]

Well that's what I compared it to earlier - but if you watch the Marciano/Louis fight - in round 8 when he landed that punch;You could picture his fist crushing his face.

Wlad's right in that fight doesn't compare...Close but Marciano put him unconscious and through the ropes.


...............Louis wasn't unconscious, actually. Incapacitated, sure, :lol: but he was still conscious.

[Leeroy]

...............Louis wasn't unconscious, actually. Incapacitated, sure, :lol: but he was still conscious.

:lol::lol:.....He looked dead.

[Tencount85]

The thread is subjective so you can pick many, but one that stands out in my mind from a historical perspective was the right that Foreman delivered which knocked out Moorer.

[Dekkers]

The right Tszyu hit Pedro Sanchez with to get the first knock down, beautiful shot, if you blinked you would have missed it.

[Seamus]

Tszyu comes to mind first because his whole aresenal was a set up for the straightest right hand in boxing.

Many of Lennox's brilliant right hands come to mind, but the Ruddock demolition was particularily impressive.

Also, Monzon's near decapitation in Nino Benvenuti in the 12th was pretty spectacular.

Tyson v Botha?

Oh, I got it, Hearns v Duran. I'll take that and Monzon's.

[NickHudson]

Hearns v Duran, Hearns v Cuevas and Lewis v Ruddock seconded.

Also, my favorite, Hearns v Andries.

Worthy mention Ali v Folley.

[C. M. Clay II]

Maybe Ali's third knockdown of Cleveland Williams.

[Toopretty]

Well that's what I compared it to earlier - but if you watch the Marciano/Louis fight - in round 8 when he landed that punch;You could picture his fist crushing his face.

Wlad's right in that fight doesn't compare...Close but Marciano put him unconscious and through the ropes.


But he was tagging lewis up with alot of elbows before that. I mean he was throwing elbow shots as combos and landing. That takes away from it for me. Dirty..dirty. And lewis was old as dirt anyway in his prime he would of beat Marciano. He was damned near 40

[Toopretty]

Why the hell was marciano allowed to throw elbows in a boxing match.. I mean for real, was that legal back then? He threw more elbows intentionally then I have ever seen. I am watching the entire round on youtube.. WHAT THE HELL????

[Thinman]

Can't say any one shot, really. Too many great ones to mention.

However, there were a few practitioners that were pretty routine with the way they wrecked guys with that punch.......

Arguello
Rosario
Hearns (the rights he landed against Duran or Cuevas might qualify)
Michael Spinks
Danny Lopez
Duran
Louis
Lennox Lewis


Etc. etc.......

Sal, you know your stuff. :yep I don't. :-( But I will always remember that right hand that TH hit Duran with. I don't now why. I was sad, I know that. BTW I like the way you put it :lol: " a few practitioners" That's classic. :good

[Seamus]

Why the hell was marciano allowed to throw elbows in a boxing match..

you ever watch a guy named holmes fight? or a few of ali's rabbit elbows he delivered during the 70's?

last i saw marciano wasn't connecting on too many of those elbows anyhow. he was short armed as they come which meant he had to get in tight and deliver in a very tight arc, the elbow follows, may graze, but rarely really connects with power. his greatest ko's were of attrition, even jjw I was preceded by a pounding.

[lillarry]

Hearns vs Duran was the best I seen

[Street Lethal]

Hearns Shuler

[JohnThomas1]

Hearns - Duran

[fists of fury]

Alexis Arguello had one of the most beautiful stright right hands ever. It was as straight as an arrow and deadly accurate.

As for one single shot, Rahman's right hand against Lewis was pretty handy...not the best ever, but what a sweet punch it was.

[JohnThomas1]

Alexis Arguello had one of the most beautiful stright right hands ever. It was as straight as an arrow and deadly accurate.


I likes Alexis' straight right hand vs Rooney, not the best opponent but Jesus, did you see and hear that thang? Trying to remember, i think it was an enormous right hand that got to Costello too.

[fists of fury]

I think so, JT. What impressed me is about Arguello's right is that he threw it with apparently little effort. It didn't seem that hard sometimes, but the results spoke for themselves.

[KTFO]

Ray Robinson vs Rocky Graziano. Probably hardest right hand ever thrown. SRR hit him through his guard and threw his gumshield in the far corner. Graziano didn't even know where he was. Brilliant footage.

[Leeroy]

Ray Robinson vs Rocky Graziano. Probably hardest right hand ever thrown. SRR hit him through his guard and threw his gumshield in the far corner. Graziano didn't even know where he was. Brilliant footage.

Good choice,if not for that Marciano striaght-right I probably would have chosen this......it's a stand out punch that's for sure.

[Doppleganger]

Hearns vs Shuler
Lewis vs Rahman II
Spinks vs Sears

[DamonD]

Riddick Bowe, in...hmm...hang on, it'll come to me...uhh...

[ron u.k.]

ingemar johannsen must take some beating.that right hand put away a lot of fighters.

[Thread Stealer]

Why the hell was marciano allowed to throw elbows in a boxing match.. I mean for real, was that legal back then? He threw more elbows intentionally then I have ever seen. I am watching the entire round on youtube.. WHAT THE HELL????

Well it's not like guys don't throw elbows now either.

And if you want to see more intentional elbows thrown, watch Pedroza-LaPorte.

I still think LaPorte should have won that fight by DQ.

[quintonjacksonfan]

Arguello hit Pryor with that same shot. I have no idea how he didn't go down

[AREA 53]

Pinklon Thomas landed a good one to despatch Mike Weaver !

[Thread Stealer]

These are some of my favorite straight right hand KOs.

Toney-Williams
Arguello-Rooney
Hearns-Cuevas
Hearns-Duran
Hearns-Shuler

[Stonehands89]

I likes Alexis' straight right hand vs Rooney, not the best opponent but Jesus, did you see and hear that thang? Trying to remember, i think it was an enormous right hand that got to Costello too.

THAT was THE right. You could hear it crack. I thought Rooney was dead and gone.

[Joe E]

The left upper cut straight right Louis threw to K.O. Conn in there 2nd fight was textbook.Thanks.

[JohnThomas1]

THAT was THE right. You could hear it crack. I thought Rooney was dead and gone.

God yeah, the most amazing sound. Scary really lol

[Danny]

Sanches vs Gomez, Tyson vs Botha were the first two I thought of. There so many, we could go on & on....

[hdog]

Hearns - Duran
Marciano - Walcott
Arguello - Rooney

[Robbi]

I likes Alexis' straight right hand vs Rooney, not the best opponent but Jesus, did you see and hear that thang? Trying to remember, i think it was an enormous right hand that got to Costello too.

Agreed. That kid looked like he had been shot from the referee with a double barrell shotgun.

Gil Clancy said during the replays "Anyone who Argeullo hits with that right hand at one hundred and forty pounds is going to go, I don't care who it is".

Clancy was wrong in the end as Pryor took everything Arguello could throw at him over two fights.

[RockyJim]

How can it be anything but the"Suzy Q" that Rocky Marciano landed on Jersey Joe Walcott's chin in their classic title fight in Philly on September 23,1952???

[Duodenum]

Pinklon Thomas landed a good one to despatch Mike Weaver !And Mike Weaver landed a good one to dispatch Gerrie Coeztee. (Weaver was one of the truest examples of one punch knockout power in either hand during his WBA Title run. Left hook on John Tate, right cross on Coetzee (and both punches delivered during true championship rounds).

[Duodenum]

How can it be anything but the"Suzy Q" that Rocky Marciano landed on Jersey Joe Walcott's chin in their classic title fight in Philly on September 23,1952???Well, were Rocky's right hands generally delivered straight down the pike? (I consider him to be a little more of a roundhouser, and the impression I get is that this thread asks about defense splitting straight rights.)

[Stonehands89]

Interestingly enough, many of Hearn's rights were arced, not straight. Including the one that levelled Duran.

[Duodenum]

The more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to go with Arguello. He delivered it in such a straight line that he actually sacrificed some explosive force in the process, but more than made up for it with his sharpshooting placement and accuracy. Even though he couldn't drop Pryor with it, the delivery, placement, and follow-through was as instructive as the proper execution of a correct and efficiently generated right cross can get.

Against Mancini, Alexis was so methodically graceful and fluid in his deployment of the right that it appeared hypnotically slow, yet it wasn't. He looked like a bombardier fixing his sights.

[Mike T]

Tyson vs Michael Jack Johnson

[Manassa]

Hearns-Duran wasn't a straight right. That's a right cross; so was Tyson-Johnson and Marciano-Walcott. Maybe I'm being picky, but a genuine straight right travels in a straight line, something like what Arguello hit Pryor with. You know, the one that knocked Pryor's head back and made him look directly up at the stars.

EDIT: Why does my post say 'Last edited by Erebus : 03-04-2006 at 5:40 PM.' :rofl