Great champions with awful jabs

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  1. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Can you think of many great champs that didn`t have a good jab, someone gave me the idea for this on a thread, the 20 best jabers in boxing today, and he said it might as well be a list of the best fighters today, which while being very simplistic makes, sense for me you a great jab at elite level do you agree and which fighters may have been the exception to this rule?
     
  2. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Frazier! Although he did have a decent jab it was not the primary tool for his arsenal and size. Watch the Quarry fights and he did have one, but in contrast it was not a great jab
     
  3. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Ray Boom Boom Mancini would be another champ who didn’t have a great jab. I am sure there is a plethora of others

    Edit: not sure he qualifies as a great champion
     
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  4. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Roy Jones, Jr? When you throw a lead left hook do you need much of a jab?
     
  5. lloydturnip

    lloydturnip Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Rocky .not a jabber
     
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  6. unitas

    unitas Boxing Addict Full Member

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    if you consider rocky graziano great…...then him too. big Right, no left. but i dont consider him great.

    i also cant remember dempsey throwing a jab……….
     
  7. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    Panama Al Brown seemed to prefer to lead with a hook.
     
  8. steve21

    steve21 Well-Known Member

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    First one I thought of ...
     
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  9. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    LaMOTTA HAD A GREAT JAB
     
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  10. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Pacquiao was never that great of a jabber.
     
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  11. JackSilver

    JackSilver Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He showed a great jab against the far bigger De La Hoya though I guess DLH was all but shot at that time.
     
  12. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Tyson had a brilliant jab and a great counter jab too, Ali`s entire style was based around the jab, LaMotta out-jabbed Robinson for 10 before being crippled by constant right hooks to the body in his last fight with Ray. Gerald wasn`t great because he couldn`t use the jab vs Benn, even Malinga outboxed Benn using the jab twice, the first fight was a dubious decision for Benn.
     
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  13. JohnThomas1

    JohnThomas1 VIP Member

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    I've seen you post so much absolute rubbish but naming Ali in a thread asking for awful jabs just might be your finest troll yet. Kudos.
     
  14. JackSilver

    JackSilver Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Holyfield was probably one of the most complete heavyweights ever in that he had every shot in the book and did throw just about every one of those shot to a good level. His jab certainly wasn’t awful which is what this thread is suppose to be about, no?
     
  15. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Benn scored tons of flush punches against Gerald who was missing all over the place, Ali never stopped jabbing his 1-2`s were awesome, Tyson landed tons of jabs, watch his fights again.