Best Uppercut?

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Hi All:

I was watching highlights of George Foreman, and I was amazed at how powerful his uppercuts were. What are your thoughts concerning who is the greatest uppercut master in boxing history? Comments are appreciated. Thank you.
 
Difficult question to answer, Duran had a good one, Juan Manuel Marquez was awesome with his, you also have Tyson and Riddick Bowe. Lot's of guys had good uppercuts but utilized them in different ways.
 
Some of my favorites

JMM's lead uppercut (gif of him delivering it at the end of the combination)
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Speaking of Judah in the other thread, he had a fantastic uppercut. Like a snake bite.
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Toney was all-around a good puncher, great work with it inside.
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Michaelzewski had a good uppercut, really vicious. Chang had a good uppercut too. Duran as well.
 
I guess you'd have to go with a guy like Tyson or Duran.

I wouldn't rate him all-time yet or anything, but Canelo throws really good uppercuts with both hands.
 
JMM had a great uppercut and you can thank Ricardo Lopez for that. Lopez mastered the left hand uppercut.
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Chocolatito has to be up there too.


Don't forget about the little guys.
 
I was gonna say finito, beat me to it.
 
Mike McCallum was great working uppercuts lead and rear hand to the body then following up to the head.
All his fights have them

Meldrick Taylor is another guy who has a really underrated uppercut, he didn't make it a huge power punch but he used it expertly his fight with JCC has a bunch of pretty ones.

Matthew saad Muhammad has probably the most vicious uppercut ko over a Ugandan guy YouTube that shiZz will not disappoint.

Jersey joe's uppercut on Charles is super clean and quick a thing of beauty.

For devastating uppercuts look no farther then Lloyd Marshall he was a killer with them his body work os beautiful and painful to watch.
 
Hi All:

I was watching highlights of George Foreman, and I was amazed at how powerful his uppercuts were. What are your thoughts concerning who is the greatest uppercut master in boxing history? Comments are appreciated. Thank you.
I'll go with Juan Coggi if you allow holding and hitting. The punch that comes to mind though is Rafael Vasquez stiffening up an opponent with a perfectly timed uppercut. I don't remember his name but I think he was a light skinned mexican guy.
 
Berto has the Best Uppercut pf alltime.



thats what made the Floyd fight so Dangerous. Cause if fell a sleep for one rd, Berto would have put his ass to bed.
 
Berto has the Best Uppercut pf alltime.



thats what made the Floyd fight so Dangerous. Cause if fell a sleep for one rd, Berto would have put his ass to bed.

Nah, Berto had about a 0.3% chance. You can't hit Floyd short arming punches like Berto does.
 
@senri can you describe finitos uppercut for us?

Ah such an underrated boxer Finito was, i liked how he lured you into his dead space for his left upper, and extended his body from a nice angle as he would contort through time and space, spiraling to the heavens drawing upon his mitts the emitted energy that would inevitably unload inside his opponents. He reminded me of a Mexican Ken street fighter character, as his hooks looked like a hybrid of the characters shoryuken attacks, you can see him put his weight and body into his penetration. I loved how he wound up his left upper as well, the opponents knew he was about to slip inside, make adjustments but it didn't matter he always going to get it in, because he mastered the art of slipping inside. They couldn't fight it, he always broke through their hard un-impregnable guards, slowly splitting open the seams of their flesh as their defense splinted ever so slightly a representation of their spirit tearing away throughout the battle of chaos. You can tell Finito relished in watching his enemies lifeforce liquids drain from their tangible existence as his onslaught ensued, the swelling of his presence engulfed their vitality. No fighters sugar tight defensive walls was safe from Finito, he was creative enough to careen himself towards your inadequacies, your fears, because once he got in he became the embodiment of your nightmares, leaving you wide awake as he eviscerated your sacred sanctity of which is yourself. It is when the self is flayed to the masses that they would lose their sense of ego, Here he would put one into a parable of nothingness, a quest to emptiness, a road to endless perdition where efforts are non existent as the mind relegated itself into the dimension of purgatory.
 
Ah such an underrated boxer Finito was, i liked how he lured you into his dead space for his left upper, and extended his body from a nice angle as he would contort through time and space, spiraling to the heavens drawing upon his mitts the emitted energy that would inevitably unload inside his opponents. He reminded me of a Mexican Ken street fighter character, as his hooks looked like a hybrid of the characters shoryuken attacks, you can see him put his weight and body into his penetration. I loved how he wound up his left upper as well, the opponents knew he was about to slip inside, make adjustments but it didn't matter he always going to get it in, because he mastered the art of slipping inside. They couldn't fight it, he always broke through their hard un-impregnable guards, slowly splitting open the seams of their flesh as their defense splinted ever so slightly a representation of their spirit tearing away throughout the battle of chaos. You can tell Finito relished in watching his enemies lifeforce liquids drain from their tangible existence as his onslaught ensued, the swelling of his presence engulfed their vitality. No fighters sugar tight defensive walls was safe from Finito, he was creative enough to careen himself towards your inadequacies, your fears, because once he got in he became the embodiment of your nightmares, leaving you wide awake as he eviscerated your sacred sanctity of which is yourself. It is when the self is flayed to the masses that they would lose their sense of ego, Here he would put one into a parable of nothingness, a quest to emptiness, a road to endless perdition where efforts are non existent as the mind relegated itself into the dimension of purgatory.
Like. A lot.
 
Holyfield put on an upper cut master class against Bert Cooper

 
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