Devastating Jabbers.

Conteh injured his right hand and defeated Yaqui Lopez over 15 virtually with his jab alone.

 

Can't belive no-one's mentioned The Greatest - Muhammad Ali

Show me any HW in history that had a better jab than Ali in the title winning
scrap with Liston..That was poetry..speed,power,precision,consistency..hell,he busted
Liston's mug up with just that left jab..

Post-exile tho'...I'll admit...he simply could'nt keep up with it.

But at his absolute prime,he was a surgeon with that jab.

 

I knew this guy back in the eighties, wanted to show me this "secret" film he had of Tunney and Greb and I snatched it away before he could start playing it and I put it down his garbage disposal. He wanted us both to indulge in this farcical fantasy where we pretend to know what we're talking about by watching some film, like we were there. I punched him in the throat and told him never to try and soil me with that kind of shame again. Why? Because I'm a real boxing fan. I'm not a boxrec warrior or a youtube historian.

 

Joe Louis
Larry Holmes
Sonny Liston

 

Liston may have had the hardest jab in history!

 

Which was proven when Liston controlled ALi with his jab, some of the BS on this forum atsch

And if Louis jab was that great, where was it against Schmelling, Conn, Walcott, Goddoy

 

sonny liston
joe louis
randy turpin
ken buchanan
me

 

:goodi forgot about conteh

 

It has to be Hagler, surely?

His right was by far his strongest hand, and he only hooked with it 15% of the time. A single jab cracked open Lee & Hamani before the rest of him took over. Sometimes the jab was preceded by a leap, and other times it was classic and measured, like against Briscoe and Hamsho.

Hagler might not have had the best jab ever, but it certainly looked the most devastating to me.

 

My examples are of recent fighters:

From what I've seen from him, Dzinziruk. He has a great jab.
Cotto has a good jab when he wants to use it.

 

Bob Foster, I just have to mention that name again. What an unbelievable fighter with an ATG jab. I love bob foster.

 

Hagler's right jab was in reality what Liston's is supposed to have been. Duran said his left hand was "dead," that all his power was in his right. Since his jab was actually his primary power shot, you couldn't blink when watching him fight.

As a HW weapon of destruction, Liston's jab was certainly the most consistent. For a single heavyweight title fight though, I don't think that what Holmes did to Ocasio has been surpassed. Larry came just one count short of knocking Jaws out with it cleanly, forcing him to take all nine seconds to barely struggle to his feet after a jab produced that first knockdown, 30 seconds after an earlier jab had sent Ossie wobbling back.

While Ali's jab was noted for speed rather than force, he did use it as an offensive weapon in the rematch with Jerry Quarry, and it looked as though Muhammad could have hammered him into a stoppage with that punch alone, if he'd deliberately set out to do so. Commentating from ringside, Jack Palance was comparing it to that of Louis, just before Ali knocked Jerry off balance with it. Muhammad was stepping into it, yet still not unloading with full force.

SRL decked Benitez with a jab. Ray had worked on cultivating the power in his jab. Dundee compared it to Pastrano's, but that knockdown raised eyebrows though. Willie did not floor ATGs with his jab like that.

For consistent hurt, Arguello has to be up there. Hagler's right jab looked like something of a club in the way it impacted, while Liston's came across as more of a ramrod. Arguello's was more of a sharpshooting downward stab. I have flashbacks to how my infected root canals felt when I see it connect.

 

Bazooka Quartey and Nana Konadu.

Conteh landed some brutal jabs on Rudi Schmidtke.Carved his face to bits.

 

Probably not in league with the greats, but Carl"The Truth"Williams had a very good jab.