What's your favorite punch?

[Panamaniac]

And who - in your view - has (or had) the best of each?

My picks:

Best jab: Sonny Liston (L) Ever so slightly edges runner-up Muhammad Ali by the sheer wrecking-ball power of it. I've seen him snap heads back, knock opponents of balance and (if I'm not mistaken) down with that thing...

Honorable mention(s):

1. Muhammad Ali
2. Larry Holmes

Best hook: Joe Frazier (L) The greatest practical exponent of the "Philadelphia left hook." It was a thing of beauty and devastation (see Ali-Frazier I).

Honorable mention(s):

1. Pipino Cuevas
2. Julio Cesar Chavez

Best cross: Roberto Durán (R) With jarring effect, he delivered the punch with remarkable ease and frequency, because it was always ****ed (for lack of a better term). It sat next to his right shoulder like a pointed gun with the hammer pulled back and finger on the trigger.

Honorable mention(s):

1. Muhammad Ali
2. Lennox Lewis

Best uppercut: Mike Tyson (R/L) With either hand, I can't think of anyone who unleashed this weapon with greater frequency or deadly accuracy. Thrown in combination, it was usually the begining of the end...

Honorable mention(s):

1. George Foreman
2. Roberto Durán

[Thread Stealer]

my favorite punch: uppercut

my favorite jab: hearns, followed by quartey and hagler

my favorite left hook: trinidad, followed by robinson and frazier

my favorite uppercut: tyson, followed by arguello and foreman

my favorite right cross: louis, followed by arguello and mayweather

[Ray Ray]

The cross (orthodox or southpaw). This has got to be the best punch out there. Roy Jones comes to mind on how to throw a picture perfect cross. The punch has your whole momentum behind it and its good night for the person on the recieving end.

Best Jab: Lennox Lewis & Ali
Best Uppercut:Lennox Lewis
Best Hook: Joe Frazier
Best Cross: No doubt Roy Jones Jr.

[Sweet Pea 50]

Great list man. But as far as crosses go, Hearns is my pick. Ask the man in your avatar about it!

[ßringer]

Favorite punch: Left Hook. And nobody threw a left hook like Joe Frazier, I'm surprised Muhammad Ali's head didn't come off in the 15th round of their first fight.

Favorite jab : Marvin Hagler. A lot of fighters have/had a great jab but nobody else's had the power behind it that Hagler's had.

Favorite uppercut : Zab Judah. This may catch me some flack because there are others whom you could argue had a better uppercut than Zab but nobody else had the speed or snap behind it that Zab had. Not to mention the angles he often throws it from.

Favorite straight right hand: Tommy Hearns. The Duran KO was and always will be the most brutal KO from a straight right I've ever seen. Duran went down like Apollo Creed did against Ivan Drago.

[ßringer]

The cross (orthodox or southpaw). This has got to be the best punch out there. Roy Jones comes to mind on how to throw a picture perfect cross. The punch has your whole momentum behind it and its good night for the person on the recieving end.

That's a funny ****ing sig pic man.

[Panamaniac]

Great list man. But as far as crosses go, Hearns is my pick. Ask the man in your avatar about it!

I can't ask him, he's still unconcious from it (LOL). Still, the man in my avatar has the best, if not most powerful, ask Davey Moore's survivors, or Iran Barkley...

[Rane-Ex54]

fav punch to watch is an uppercut. Fav punch to throw is a left hook and jab.

[Thread Stealer]

my favorite punch is anything that doesn't hit me.

[SpeedKillz]

my fav punch to throw is the left hook cuz its ****ing devastating when i land it...