Excellent boxers with a single glaring liability (one terrible attribute)

Weak chins and feather-fists have been done to death, so let's exclude those and focus on particular skills.

Whose footwork is the sloppiest?

Whose jab is most noodled?

Who telegraphs every rear hand shot by pulling it back to press row with their elbow half a foot behind their shoulder?

Who can't for the life of them remember to bend their knees when trying an uppercut?

Titlist or top contenders only, please.

 

Wlad - no inside ability whatsoever.

 

Shane Mosley - worst jab ever seen in a consensus ATG? I think so.

I absolutely HATE the Mosley jab, always have. A dainty little shooing motion, like an old lady in a convenience store deferring on her change for a bag of penny candy.

Papa Jack really shat the bed with Shane's "power boxing" approach by completely eschewing any semblance of a good jab. Had this been drilled into Shane's head early and often he might've been even greater. Specifically, he might not have been so disadvantaged when put in with his stylistic bogeymen, Forrest & Wright, both of whom possessed superb jabs (and to a lesser extent true of DLH, whose jab was very good but not quite Forrest or Wright good and who correspondingly troubled Mosley that extra bit less than either)

 

Perfect example. :good

 

Amir Imam- Poor defense.

 

It's the way he also jitters before he throws it as well.

 

Pacquiao- Can't cut off the ring.

 

Mosley's jab is not great but what I hate the most is those "cat paw" jabs, where they try to overreach with it and barely graze the opponent's face in a downward motion, I can't for some reason think of an example now but many boxers do it.

 

Canelo - poor footwork

 

Gabriel Campillo. "Bad" nationality.

It has cost him his most important fights.

 

They better not say it.

I specifically asked not to.

No chin, power, or speed. Nothing anyone is born with.

Let's focus on acquired fundamentals lacked by world-class boxers, please.

 

Those at least get in the opponent's line of vision. :conf


Mosley's jab is useless. It has never done anything productive. It sets nothing up, deters nobody, and doesn't even elevate enough to scramble anyone's sight. He may as well have never thrown a single jab in his career. It's essentially nothing but a nervous tick (one of many; Mosley has always been one hyper jittery ******* in general...)

 

Ricky Hatton - kebabs

 

That makes it doubly bad. The jab itself would be trash even without the shake.

 

:rofl