Best at slipping the jab

As imaginative and inspiring as Witherspoon's style and defense were, he could slip or deflect it but actually held his right hand just low enough to get hit.

 

Michael Spinks. Especially against Holmes

 

I would also like to mention Eubank, especially against long-armed musclemen Watson, Malinga and Thompson. Impressive subtle head movement.

 

Pep was amazing at both slipping and ducking the jab, and maybe more so on following that landing punches while going the opposite way.

 

One hell of a jab to slip...

 

Boy that Diaz. Good bodypuncher too.

 

featherweight champ paul hodkinson was great at it, so was Tyson. Chavez, locche, pep were on another level.

 

And johnson! I remember my dad always said the man was a boxer.

 

Harold Johnson slipped a jab and countered like nobody's god damned business.

 

Can you imagine if Harold had been fortunate enough to have been born a little bit later? He could have been part of that late 70's lh scene with EM Muhammad and Saad Muhammad. And who would pick those guys--or an old Galindez/Rossman/Marvin Johnson/ over Harold? Man, I think he would have made those guys look foolish in there.

 

felix Trinidad made mincemeat of Vargas with great lefthook counters inside slipped jabs