Best jab in baaaxing atm 2020 edition.

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Best jab in boxing? Pick your top three.

  1. GGG

  2. Usyk

  3. Errol Spence

  4. Kovalev

  5. Charlo

  6. Inoue

  7. Tyson Fury

  8. Terrance Crawford

  9. Kell Brook

  10. Lomachenko

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  1. timeout

    timeout Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Contender one
    1) Middleweight king, and linear champ GGG.
    Need I say more. Amazing power jab that had Canelo and Jacob on queeer street for most of the fight.
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    Contender two
    2) Usyk Former unified cruiserweight and double gold medal winner.
    You don't win that many medals without a great jab
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    Contender three
    3) Errol Spence probably the best welterweight right now
    Great at doubling up the jab. quick fast and crisp.
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    Contender four
    4) Kovalev, Krusher. He is a shot alchoholic these days, but his jab, is probably the only weapon he has left nowadays.
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    5) Jermell Charlo superwelter champ. Despite a rather protected career so far, charlo brothers, esp jermell has a great jab.
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    timeout Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    6) Naoya Inoue showed geat jab against a HOFer in a smashing fight vs Donaire.
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    7) Tyson Fury, with a mammoth reach the HW king who destroyed Wilder has a great jab, in ortodox or southpaw position.
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    8) Terence Crawford, guy has skills everywhere, jab is no exception.
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    9) Kell brook, despite being worse for wear after having his head caved in by GGG, brook on his day, has the best jab in the business.
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    10) Lomachenko, many ppls PFP1, his jab is defo, hi tech. Not the greatest, fastest or the most accurate, but has great variation with it.
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  3. Dannymita

    Dannymita Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'd probably still have kovalevs at the top off my list but not for much longer.. He really does have a fantastic jab and **** all else atm

    Golovkin 2nd but again probably not for much longer... Beautiful powerful jab that he's used to dominate most of his fights he didn't blow his opponent out in

    Really good list
     
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  4. Holler

    Holler Doesn't appear to be a paid matchroom PR shill Full Member

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    Great list indeed.

    I've gone for GGG because I could imagine people picking that punch if they were coaching. It's relentless. Must annoy the **** out of his opponents!
     
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  5. MorvidusStyle

    MorvidusStyle Well-Known Member Full Member

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    If we're talking about best jab in objective terms, if all fought each other, it should be Fury since it's at HW, the longest, and he jabs world level opponents off both sides. He also showed a good power jab in the last fight. Lastly, he can move his glove down mid fight while nobody is looking and send his knuckles out of a hidden peepy hole, making it a devastating power jab.

    If we're talking most impressive relative performance, maybe Kovalev since he has KO'd I believe two opponents with the jab (Yarde and the guy he bodyshotted with a power jab), so it's a very good jab.

    But GGG should be mentioned because unlike Fury/Kovalev and other lankier fighters, Golovkin is often fighting at a reach disadvantage and so it's impressive that he out jabs rangier opponents.

    Let's please mention Wilder too. Fury said Wilder had improved his jab for the rematch and had double-jabbed. Well done to Wilder for improving his jab. It didn't go unnoticed! It's good to see hard work paying off. Okay, he got beaten up and stopped, but take the positives out of it.
     
  6. escudo

    escudo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Inoue's jab is amazing. He throws it like a tiny Sonny Liston.
     
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  7. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    Ken Shiro deserves a mention.

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    And how is Julian Williams not in your list?
     
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  8. yesihavearm2

    yesihavearm2 ESB Chinchecker Full Member

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    Dustin Nichols /thread
     
  9. kdyehs

    kdyehs Member Full Member

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    Kovalev still has the best jab. But his last bad performance against mini Canelo was the most shocking disappointment in boxing history. Kovalev looked like Goliath and the fight looked like a sparring match. Incredible, like if George Foreman would lose to Roy Jones Junior by KO.
     
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  10. Dance84

    Dance84 Unicorn and seastar land Full Member

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    Kovalev and GGG
     
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  11. timeout

    timeout Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    fair shout, fair shout, but i wanted to keep the list fairly short.
     
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    timeout Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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