I'm wondering what culture in the U.S. or what region of the U.S. has this language style.
"He just threw a left hook, John."
(John is who threw the left hook.) Who puts it as first described?
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I suggest you add another quote mark. At the moment it is not clear where your (or if your) quote ends. – Nigel J Mar 11 '18 at 03:25
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2This is called "right dislocation". Here is a question asking about its use in British varieties of English: “Knows an awful lot about the Dark Arts, Snape”. There is more information about this construction in the following posts: Is it grammatically correct to shift an appositive away from the noun it renames or describes?, Why does the following phrase sound old fashioned? – herisson Mar 11 '18 at 04:02
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@sumelic The Snape quote works, but the OP's version has a "he" at the start as well as a "John" at the end. That doesn't sound like an assertion that John threw the left hook. It sounds more like someone addressing John, saying that someone else (he) threw the left hook. – Lawrence Mar 11 '18 at 10:52