Boxers with ATG Jabs?

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  1. VG_Addict

    VG_Addict Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I say Larry Holmes is definitely in the top 5.
     
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    Eric Morales
     
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    Ike Quartey
    Pernell Whitaker
    Winky Wright
    Thomas Hearns
    Marvin Hagler
    Sonny Liston
    Virgil Hill
    Tommy Loughran
    Jose Napoles
    Carlos Monzon
    Miguel Canto
    Marco Antonio Barrera
    Nino Benvenuti
    Bob Foster
    Larry Holmes
     
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    timmers612 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Good gravy there are so many, Masao Ohba, Ken Buchanan, Joe Louis, Lar Holmes to name a few with a dozen others on the tip of my tongue. Sonny Liston's battering ram might even makes some lists.
     
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    Holmes
    Quartey
    Whitaker
    Hagler
    Hearns
    Liston
    Ali (when used properly)
     
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    HOUDINI Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ali is my pick. Not as hard as Louis, Liston or Holmes it was however so quick and sharp. In his prime so quick and sharp it was impossible to avoid and cut you to ribbons. That jab, overall speed and movement allowed Ali to hit his opponents at angles piling up points and doing damage as punches aimed at him fell short.
     
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    Oscar De La Hoya deserves a mention, he had a beautiful jab.

    Winky Wright sprung to mind, brilliant.
     
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  8. hookfromhell

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    De La Hoya had a phenomenal jab, even befuddled
    Mayweather for stretches in 2007.Hearns, Lewis,
    Bowe, Quartey. Questionable as atg Foreman,
    Douglass, Wlad,Pinkon Thomas. Sorry mostly heaview
     
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  9. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    Buster Douglas jab was exceptional. It was very fluid. Even when he was out of shape and his heart was half in it he had that jab. What a waste of a great tools.
     
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    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qX-9X3X8i8[/ame]

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn8YRblGky8[/ame]
     
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  11. Shake

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    Ken Buchanan. Such utility.
     
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  12. bez

    bez Active Member Full Member

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    This just about covers it. Its hard to say though coz they all throw a different kind of jab.
     
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    Liston and Louis the obvious ones i think better than Ali's because they cause more damage.
     
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    Foremans and Pinklon Thomas' were great aswell
     
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    In no order, of the top of my head

    Larry Holmes
    Pernell Whitaker
    Sugar Ray Robinson
    Sonny Liston
    Thomas Hearns
    Muhammad Ali
    Joe Louis
    Marvin Hagler
    George Foreman
    Mike McCallum
    Ray Leonard
    Riddick Bowe
    Jose Napoles
    Buster Douglas
     
    sugarsean, Sep 23, 2012
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