Great Use of the Jab

Bowe looks pretty primitive here by any standard.

 

Whatever happened to the Golota Express that Rumsfeld had going on for a while a couple of years back?

 

Yep, what could've been...

I credit Gołota mostly. I don't think Bowe was at his Holyfield level prime, but even if he were I think Gołota's technical skills and stature give Bowe a lot of trouble. As for his chin, it wasn't great, but he had more head/heart problems than chin, I think he often was the kind of guy who could keep going but just said '**** it' and quit.

 

Golota would have most likely always given Bowe a hard time, but I'd favor even a good version of Bowe to prevail. This version wasn't prime, this version was particularly good either.

 

I think '92 Bowe beats Gołota but it's a close and very, very hard victory.

 

Besides it acting as a power punch? A jab can often act as a measuring stick, it can offset as well as frustrate the opposition, as you well know, but this was doing all of those things in addition to hurting Ranquello. I haven't watched the fight in a while, I hope I haven't confused it with another opponent, but I recall the most sickening shots being jabs. Spinks really stepped into them, and credit to Ranquello, he didn't quit when a lot of other fighters would have.

 

would berbick-Thomas qualify or Ike quartey-park

 

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harada was brilliant here. he entered exchanges with the jab, ended exchanges with the jab and doubled it up to head to counteract jofres height and reach advantage. the occasional jab to the body opened the head back up and he took full advantage, coming in with two jabs and moving out before return fire.

for a man known more as a whirling dervish than a boxer, this was tremendous use of boxings most important weapon

 

Yes i would say so.

 

It's the picture perfect finish that gets the plaudits and it was a fight he could never have lost if he'd tried, but watch Roy Jones' jab v Vinny Paz. Elementary stuff, but a classic example of simplicity perfectly executed. There are 90 second periods of that fight where Jones dominated using nothing but a sometimes quadrupled up jab as Paz tried to swarm Jones and get in underneath his elbows. Really marvellous stuff.

Come to think of it, De La Hoya v Quartey bout would have been a fight between possibly the two best jabbers back then. Aside from the classic 5th and the 12th, it was that punch which dominated. Man, that was a close fight.

 

Spinks had a great jab in general. I've always thought his was one of the most powerful I've seen. He put his entire body into it, as he did with every punch. A master of leverage.