Name a current fighter with a better jab than Crawford

There are many fighters with a better jab than Crawford.. I dont even need to mention any names because the ones in the know should know..

 

That's because neither has a better jab than Crawford.

Both are more jab reliant than Crawford (both Scott and Chambers live and die by their jab, whereas Crawford has a variety of tools of which his left and right jab are each just a single option that he can put back in the box and still find success without) - yet his actual jab is better than either one's. That just speaks to Crawford being a greater p4p talent, which he undoubtedly is.

 

I never said he always throws the jab upstairs, but he uses a very accurate and educated jab to set up right hands, act as a range finder and set up shots to the body and/or head. He doubles it up at times....he did this some in the Nelo fight and it worked well against him but I completly disagree with you "80%" estimation of jabs he throws are to the body. It's more accurate when he jabs to the body but he definitely doesn't jab 80% of the time to the body. Where did you get that figure from?

 

Name 10.....Crawford has a very versatile jab and he uses it fluidly . It's not always landing but it's not always meant to land. It allows Crawford to open up with some of his harder punches, set traps and find range.

 

I completely made it up.

That just feels about right. I'm sure, however, that HBO #s would back up the overwhelming majority of his jabs (and especially his jab connects) being on the body.

He just doesn't bother much with head jabs. They aren't really ever a pillar of his strategy.

 

Haha...I'm guilty of doing the same thing..His jabs to the head are subtle.....usually the lazer right hand or left hook off the jab is immediately behind it. But I definitely feel where you are coming from..... Like I said, I'm a big fan of how he uses that jab to the body. It's not subtle and it's a big part of his offense when Floyd is in his rhythm. But I don't think he throws more jabs to the body than to the head. I could be wrong but I'll see what I can find out. I'm now a little intrigued to see what those numbers look like now that we are on the topic.

 

Amir Khan's "hush hush" Jab.

 

http://compuboxonline.com/tag/floyd-mayweather/

The jab seems to make up a good part of Floyd's offense......just in the Nelo fight he landed 139.....out of 232 total punches that found a home. That's more than I actually expected.....like I said....his jab is very subtle and is usually followed up immediately by another power punch.

 

Yeah, he is probably the most tracked fighter alive in terms of his punch stats. I remember Lampley mentioning one time how Comp-U-Box had recorded most of his career. What I'd be interested most in would be a full breakdown of those "Punch Zone" stats that HBO uses across several of his fights, illustrating how many of which kind of punch lands where. That's what I think would really help bear out seeing how much he favors that solar plexus jab.

 

Wlad easy and maybe Sergey




Let's see Crawford look dominate vs guys his own size before we go nuts here people :deal

 

:good Wish someone would create something like that. It's definitely something that would give fans another perspective in dissecting fighters and how they operate in the ring over time. Floyd has been pretty consistent..... Or it seems that way at least.

 

Wlad? Not anymore. He mostly leaves it outstretched like a push-pole now and rarely snaps it. He used to have a great jab.

Sergey...Dzinziruk? Maybe several years ago. If you mean Kovalev, no. (and I'm Kovalev's biggest fan on here)

Just because he out-jabbed Hopkins when everybody (for some reason) expected him to just hurl bombs at him doesn't mean he suddenly has the best one in the game.

He dominated Prescott, who's bigger.

 

Wlad lands just as accurate against better opponents maybe you should do your HW :deal



Sergeys jab to the body is accurate as they get against every opponent.

 

Who has Prescott beat ?

Could he beat Matthysse ?
He barley could handle Gambos shots
Imagine what bigger skilled guys would do :thumbsup

 

Okay, you realize that nobody is saying (yet) that Crawford is overall better than Klitschko or Kovalev, right? Only that his jab is better?

Also, you realize that while the latter two have very accurate, effective jabs (more so in the past for Klitschko, and in the case of Kovalev mostly concentrated on the body jab, like Mayweather) but that putting theirs behind Crawford's by no means insults either of them or their jabs, right?

Talking about who they've beaten, well Crawford has only recently burst onto the world scene (as has Kovalev, relatively, comparing either of them with Klitschko) so of course asking for a list of guys he beat, let alone dominated, is going to look paltry next to Wlad's ledger, but the subject at hand is currently whose jab is the best - and based on his very high level performances of late many feel that is Crawford, not unreasonably.