Dominant champions who had bad jabs...?

Panama Al Brown perhaps.

Admittedly we don't have much to work with.

 

I think Roy Jr and Roberto Duran are two peas in this pod.

Both could jab well when it suited them, but they didn’t use it consistently and weren’t reliant on it.

 

Max saved his jab for the ladies.

 

Fair enough

Perhaps it was terrible that he didn't use it enough - so we both 'win'?

 

Ah, well in that sense, for one example, he apparently jabbed Myrna Loy silly then. Some
days he even gave her the old 1 - 2.

 

Myrna Loy was the perfect woman. Beautiful, stylish, sexy in a maternal way, quick with a witty comeback, a loyal pal and co-conspirator who will cheerfully go along with drunkenness and mischief up to a point.

 

Marcos Maidana, Ricardo Mayorga, Tetsuya Fuji, Orlando Salido, Ryoichi Taguchi, Giovani Segura,Tetsuya Kawashima, Vic Darchinyan...

 

Joe Frazier?

 

I can't think of any dominant champ that had a bad jab.

 

It's gonna be hard to find a dominant champ with a distinctly bad jab - if a punch becomes a part of your style, by the time you reach championship level, you'll have mastered it. I mean, even lower level guys who've never been champ have shown this (Rudduck's smash, Whyte's left hook, Shavers' Overhand, etc).

What is probably easier to find, is a guy neglected the jab and was still a dominant champion. At heavyweight alone there's a few - the Jab wasn't really apart of Frazier's game, or Dempsey's, Marciano's or Tyson's. I think the short/stocky stature and aggressive styles of those guys is no coincidence, it's the only real way to aschew the jab and still be dominant.

 

Tyson jab is very underrated, he outjabbed Tony Tucker.

But I agree with the rest, that Dempsey, Marciano, Frazier, etc didn't have good jabs.

 

It underrated imo, but its clearly his worst punch imo.

 

Tyson's best weapons were left hook and right uppercut, but he had a good jab for one swarmer.

 

Rigondeaux springs to mind. Never used his jab with much authority and instead chose to simply paw it out constantly as bait.

Yamanaka is another, he liked to paw his jab as a range-finder to set up his booming straight left and find his range. He didn't use his jab much as a weapon in and of itself but instead used it in service of that brutal left hand of his. Adonis Stevenson was quite similar, largely focused on landing big left hands with the rest of his offensive arsenal built around that, including the jab.

Canelo has a beautiful jab but frequently underutilises it.