The Greatest Jabs that ever lived

beat trinidad almost exclusively with it.

 

To me the most impressive jabs are the ones where the fighter doesn't have the reach advantage most of the time.
So jabs like Wlad, Fury, Floyd might be dominant but they're very dependent on reach.
Jabs like those of Golovkin and Saunders are probably better in a pure sense since these guys have pretty average proportions compared to their opposition, so it takes more skill to win a jab battle.

 

Hearns, Holmes, Hagler, Virgil Hill had a good one. His whole career was based on that and then his counter left. All left hand since his right was horrible for a guy who had 25 or so title defenses.

 

Sweet pete
Spinks jinx
Holmes
Winky wright

 

I see a big lack of Carlos Monzon on this thread.

 

Hearns for me...I sure as **** wouldn't want to be trying to get past that.. nevermind the right backing it up

Rest can be in any particular order


GGG the power jab he used to use..still a good jab but it used to look alot more spiteful and painful.

Kovalev...gorgeous jab...brilliant at upsetting an opponent's rhythm..used it to great effect against ward..which says it all

Floyd...controlled range with it..fast as ****..used it to the body with great effect as well

de la hoya
Larry Holmes
Wlad

Not best ever but Felix Sturm had a great jab

I need to watch some more of Ike quartay...always heard of its quality but never really seen any of his fights

Edit - Random left field one....Sergey dzindzuruk had a great jab

 

Larry Holmes is the first fighter that comes to mind when I think of the jab.

I've seen Quartey being mentioned also.... what a ****ing jab he had.

Going off grid and not by any means saying he's in the mix with some of the elite names already mentioned, but in recent years George Groves had a superb jab. Speed, power and accuracy thrown from outside of the eye line... in my opinion the best jab in British boxing over the past 10 years.

 

Klitschko and Vitali, if we don`t count the Klitschko last few years, cause his jab after Steward for some reason disappear.

 

Ken Buchanan

 

Holmes

Hearns
Quartey
Liston
Louis
Wlad
GGG
Loughran
Hagler
Archer
Arguello
Ali
Off the top of my head

 

In no particular order:

Srr, Louis, Ali, Holmes, Liston, Foreman, Hearns, Oscar had a good jab, Floyd, Cotto,
Walcott, Moore, Charles, Hagler, Harold Johnson and quite a few others I can’t think of at the moment.

 

Mike Tyson should be included in this scope.

 

Rocky, when he rematched clubber laing.

 

Joe Louis, Larry Holmes, SRR, Fighting Harada, Tommy the Hitman Hearns.

 

Mayweather by far the best, in HW fury closely followed by wlad.