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  1. quintonjacksonfan

    quintonjacksonfan Active Member Full Member

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    Had the best jab to the body?
     
  2. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis "The David Haye of Loma's Gay" -Edgar Allan Poe Full Member

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    Probably Sugar Ray Robinson. There's a segment in the Bobby Dykes fight where he noticeably throws it way more than the jab to the head. I also love how keen his eyes were for details, and how quick he would adapt to them.
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    At 1:20 he instantly notices that Graziano drops the right hand after the body jab. A lesser fighter would have probably set a pattern to get Graziano to open up. But Robinson immediately goes to work by feinting the jab to the body again, and nails Graziano with a right to the head.
     
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  3. People's Champ

    People's Champ Member banned Full Member

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    IDK about all time ranking, but the one Floyd Mayweather put on Robert Guerrero was about as good and effective one as I've ever seen.
    And of course DDs against Usyk was championship caliber
     
  4. themaster458

    themaster458 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Mayweather def has one of the best among modern fighters
     
  5. MaccaveliMacc

    MaccaveliMacc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Larry Holmes could jab to the body as well.
     
  6. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Floyd Mayweather and Andre Ward were great at sticking the jab to the body. I believe Sergey Kovalev also knocked out a fighter with one hard jab to the body.

    Currently Naoya Inoue showed a great stiff jab to the body, as shown in his fight against Stephen Fulton.
     
  7. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Agree
     
  8. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Mayweather really brought this back in modern boxing.