The best jabbing displays you've ever seen.

Ocasio, easily. He crushed Ossie with the power of his jab in that one.

Jaws came into that title challenge off of two wins over Jimmy Young, so he was as well prepared for dealing with a great jab as any heavyweight of the era possibly could have been. Larry just pounded his unorthodox perpetually bobbing and weaving challenger into continual retreat with it. From time to time, Ossie would pick off a jab with his defensively held gloves, but not nearly enough to prevent what Holmes was doing.

In round seven, he severely wobbled Ocasio with a jab. About 30 seconds later, he decked Jaws with another jab that just about went through the back of Ossie's head (as Liston used to say). Struggling mightily to beat the count, Ocasio was barely up at nine. It was said that Liston and Louis could knock an opponent out with their jabs, but this was the closest I've seen one heavyweight come to actually flooring another for the full count in title competition between two championship caliber opponents. (Jaws, just seven pounds lighter than Holmes, would later become one of the first substantial CW champions, and earlier clearly defeated Dokes in a Don King engineered draw.)

 

This. Larry is one of the few fighters who actually demonstrated big power in his stick. The Ocasio performance cements his left hand as legend, for me.

Cobb, Cooney, and Shavers I and II are also great jabbing clinics by Holmes.

 

A few others

Benvenuti vs Griffith
Winstone vs baby Luis
Conteh vs Saad
Saad vs Lopez 1
Lamotta vs Robinson massacre
Both Buchanan vs Laguna fights(both fighters)

 

Hearns Vs Benitez: didn't he have an injured right hand in that one Lora?

 

it's why i like robinson's jab better than hearns'. it's the 3rd robinson fight i ever saw any footage of and i was mesmerized by that more than the cross or hook. straight, stiff, powerful and could mix it up in both speed and timing

 

Yeah, so he says.

 

Regardless, he jabbed very well there.

 

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Of course, not in a losing effort though... (which was the theme of my post).

 

:deal

 

Haha, when I saw this thread I thought, "I'll throw Spinks-Ranquello at them. Obscure, but as good of a jabbing performance as I've ever seen."

Bravo

 

Foster vs Finnegan. Foster had one of the heaviest jabs I've seen

 

Barrera's fluidity with the jab was always something I liked. He could rotate and move backwards while offsetting your rhythm badly while making it look easy. He did it perfectly against Hamed and stopped Marquez in his tracks a few times by sticking him right down the middle while backstepping.

Cotto VS Foreman was a good recent one; expertly timed with a lot of weight behind it.

DLH jabbed very well against Mosley in the second fight.

Cervantes VS Locche 2 was also a good display; Pambele's great timing with the jab helped make Locche less readily elusive.

 

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But for your consideration. (Not just jabs, but some nice jabs in the early part of the bout)


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Three more rounds and Randy woulda got him.:deal