Best up-jabs ever?

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  1. brnxhands

    brnxhands Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Different from the best standard jab ever but who had your favorite up jabs?
     
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  2. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    These are not the best ever per say, but the up jabs i saw used so effectively in specifics fights.

    Ken Norton (performed best against Ali and it worked a treat for him in those fights. He would jab with Ali from below)

    Ray Leonard (Watch the Benitez fight the up jab won it for him. Ray was having trouble catching Benitez with a regular jab, it was driving him crazy, and then started using an up jab and had success finding him even put him down with an up jab IIRC)

    Pete Whitaker (Would make himself smaller then he was and then shoot an up jab. He did it in almost every fight and no one figured out how to avoid it)
     
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  3. brnxhands

    brnxhands Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    good picks. i cant even remember it being used in any recent fights
     
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  4. werety

    werety Active Member Full Member

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    Benitez had a nice one.
     
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  5. Boxing&Blues

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    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h2J8FywlSU[/ame]
     
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  6. The Kurgan

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    Annoyingly, Holmes is an example of BOTH a great standard jab AND a great jab from the waist. He was the King of the Jabs at heavyweight.
     
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  7. The Funny Man 7

    The Funny Man 7 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Sergio Martinez has shown a good southpaw upjab.

    I think I read somewhere that Billy Graham was an expert at using a very well-timed jab from the waist.
     
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  8. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Whitaker was the best but Hearns had a nice one, too.
     
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  9. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    Holmes had a great regular jab, but i actually don't think it was THAT creative. Lennox for example had a more creative jab IMHO.
     
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  10. zadfrak

    zadfrak Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Larry Donald used one. The thing is he should probably utilized a standard jab and he would have done better. I could really never figure out why he did that and he'd just use it as a solitary punch and not use it to set the table--something some of the other up jabbers have a tendency to do.
     
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  11. AREA 53

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    Bob Foster always springs to mind concerning this aspect, a couple of Lt Heavy
    Foster followers Jesse Burnett and Lonnie Bennett had good one's too.
     
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  12. natonic

    natonic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Sot Chitlada had a good one.
     
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  13. The Kurgan

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    Define 'creative' please.
     
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  14. luke

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    bruce seldon, many flaws, but his jab wasnt one of them, it was amazing.
     
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  15. Senor Pepe'

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    Larry Holmes,,,,,,,Fast, Accurate and Powerful
    He could and did use it, to win many fights with 'one-hand only'.

    Sonny Liston,,,,,,Heavy-handed ham-fist
    A standard 'smash-face punch'.

    Cassius Clay,,,,,,,Lightning-bolt and Razor-sharp
    Could rip the skin off your eye-brows before you knew it.
     
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