P4p who's the best jab in history?

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  1. Mike_b

    Mike_b Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Top three (choose your top 3):
    Mine are:
    1 Lennox Lewis,
    2 big George Foreman
    3 Terrence Crawford
     
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  2. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Miguel Canto.
     
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  3. Mike_b

    Mike_b Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Lennox had a nice meter stick bat with padding around it. It set up the one two prefectly. George could just simply knock you down with his, and Terrance the reason I created this thread!
     
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  4. Ioakeim Tzortzakis

    Ioakeim Tzortzakis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Pernell Whitaker, Larry Holmes and Thomas Hearns would be my choices. Tommy loughran as an honorable mention too.
     
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  5. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Bob N Weave Full Member

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    Fighting Harada used his jab exactly how he wanted to and I don’t think anyone stopped him getting to his range. Lionel Rose had a great left hand too. Not the P4P best but what does that mean anyways? Highest regarded fighter with a good jab that surprised me was Henry Armstrong despite his reputation.
     
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  6. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Bob N Weave Full Member

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    Of the southpaws Khaokor made good use of his against Sung Kil Moon… not for fear of power or strength of which he might’ve matched but elbows, headbutt’s and cuts.
     
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  7. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

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    Loughran
    Holmes
    Hearns
     
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  8. surfinghb

    surfinghb Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Canto, Arguello, H Williams, Monzon
     
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  9. Blaxx

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    Pernell Whittaker, Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Robinson, Larry Holmes.
     
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  10. McGrain

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    Oscar De La Hoya had an exceptional jab. Right up there. But he was weird with it. If you ever watch the Mayweather fight again, note that in the first half of the fight Oscar jabs - and clearly wins that half of the fight. In the second half, he just abandons the jab, he was even asked about it after the fight and gave a weird answer. "It wasn't the night of the jab." Why not? You just stopped jabbing. Why? It was so weird. Because he lost the second half of the fight and the fight itself because of that. Floyd was running scared from that jab. It just didn't make sense.

    Joe Louis.
     
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  11. Takeover

    Takeover New Member Full Member

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    Oscar only took two rounds off Floyd in the first half and only the 6th round was one where it was because of the jab. He mainly just tried to crack Floyd's defense by barging in with left hooks. Overrated performance and jab. So many fights of his career where he would just completely abandon his jab. His ring IQ was very low for a great fighter.
     
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  12. McGrain

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    Another thing that's interesting is watching back Oscar-Pea after seeing Oscar-Floyd. Oscar does almost exactly the same thing again - does very well with the jab early and then ramps way back on the punch later on. It does make me wonder about the chicken/egg because it's like Oscar can't throw the jab if he is being out-boxed around it, he doesn't have an adjustment with the punch, he just deploys it (Which is probably why Emmanuel Steward loved Oscar's jab so much, it was uncomplicated from a fight-plan perspective).

    That's when he goes to his statement punches. I can't decide how to feel about this. Is it bad that Oscar can't adjust his jab, can't make those changes, or is it in a way good that he lets the punch slide if he starts to let it slip? It can't be a coincidence that he stops throwing the punch in earnest against the two greatest boxers he ever met - and against Tito, too.
     
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  13. Sailor Joe

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    Sergey Kovalev - powerful

    Miguel Cotto - great timing (not the fastest, and his reach wasn't amazing, but he could still land the jab impressively)

    Benny Leonard - fast, accurate and versatile
     
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  14. KINGWILDER

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    Larry Holmes, no doubt in my mind.
     
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  15. robert ungurean

    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Holmes

    Hearns
    Quartey
     
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