Top 5 Heavyweight Left Hooks of All Time?

[kiDynamite92]

1. Joe Frazier
2. Tommy Morrison
3. Mike Tyson
4. Gerry Cooney
5. David Tua

[Lomasexual]

Where's Joe Frazier???? Cmon #1! At least in top 5.I don't agree with Morrison as #1 but glad to see you put up his name because at heavy he REALLY did have a great hook.Say want you want about rest of his game but that hook was nasty.Not sure quite where I would rank it yet but it was no joke.And Wlad did not have a great hook imo.But he was the 1st 6-6 plus guy that I seen with a GOOD hook.And Rud**** was more of a hy-bred uppercut-hook but was also nasty.And of course Tyson and Tua had great hooks.

I totally agree with you about Frazier, he has to be on the list.

I don't agree with you about Wlad. His straight right, his jab and his left hook were all brilliant.

Watching him hook off his jab was a sight to behold.

[Tom Cruise]

Louis
Frazier
Tyson
Holyfield
Walcott

[Tom Cruise]

No love for Louis, Holyfield or Walcott so far.

Louis threw every punch extremely well, but if his right was a sledge hammer, his left hook was the off switch for his opponents.

Holyfield had a brilliant technical hook, very versatile. Not super powerful, but really textbook technique.

Walcotts was well set up, and also brutal.

[JimRaynor]

Surprised to see wlad listed...I’ve never seen him as a great left hooker.

First time Mercer has ever been dropped to the head,

[JimRaynor]

No love for Louis, Holyfield or Walcott so far.

Louis threw every punch extremely well, but if his right was a sledge hammer, his left hook was the off switch for his opponents.

Holyfield had a brilliant technical hook, very versatile. Not super powerful, but really textbook technique.

Walcotts was well set up, and also brutal.

By todays comparisons, Louis and Walcott didn't have devastating left hooks, they could barely even be considered heavyweights.

Holyfield on the other hand had a tremendous left hook, and I considered including him, but his didn't pack as much heat as the others mentioned in the original list.

[chrisJS]

No love for Louis, Holyfield or Walcott so far.

Louis threw every punch extremely well, but if his right was a sledge hammer, his left hook was the off switch for his opponents.

Holyfield had a brilliant technical hook, very versatile. Not super powerful, but really textbook technique.

Walcotts was well set up, and also brutal.

Good to see Arnold Cream getting some love.

I definitely agree on Louis and Holyfield. Louis delivered nearly every punch textbook and had great execution and power in his left. I think Holyfield probably has the second best technique and combinations in the divisions history behind Louis and his left hook was fantastic.

I have Joe Frazier as the greatest left hook guy in the divisions history and Tyson up there in the top 5 too for sure.

[Hatesrats]

"Smokin'" Joe Fraizer = Greatest Left hook

[PotentialToast]

When did anybody lay out, stone cold unconscious 2 heavyweights in one year with a left hook, and put to the ground for the first time another guy with a granite chin with the same; all in the same year. In happened in 2018.

[Larry the boss]

Floyd Patterson
Jersey Joe Walcott
Joe Frazier