Curious for a consensus on the best jab @112. Sot Chitalada and Miguel Canto are the names I imagine will come up most.
Yuri Arbachakov also had a wonderful jab. Fighting Harada as well ofc. Hiroyuki Ebihara probably has the best southpaw jab of any flyweight.
Canto, Chitalada and Ohba were the first three I thought of. Ohba and Canto with more variety and multi-tooling, the former being aided by range and height, but Chitaladas jab was like the Liston of the flyweights. A really heavy, horrible piston-like punch. Wolgast and Montana are nice shouts though. Harada too, though I'd have to rewatch the Kingpetch fights to compare how developed his jab was compared to his bantam days. He depended on it less too owing to his prodigious skill and speed as a swarmer. Kingpetch himself had really elegant left hand actually though I don't know that I'd have it in the upper echelon. Wee Walter is up there too as a great jabber, he was like an angry wasp. All the impressive for being an ill-tempered Scotsman whose default urge was probably to grab an opponents chest hair and nut them. It takes some serious internal rewiring to resist nature like that.
Sorry for not replying in the clinch thread George, I've been meaning to say for days how genetically great the offensively well schooled Mexicans were at framing for space to step back and get short punches off.....
Chitalada Masao Ohba Pone Kingpetch Yuri Arbachakov Hiroyuki Ebihara Rodolfo Martinez Omar Narvaez And actually we have Seigo Yuri Akui
Don't worry about it mate, between the clinch and the cultured lead hand threads, I've exhausted myself. I need to add some more to them, just so I have something it reference/store online when I get a new phone, so it'll be back if only briefly.
