The top 5 best jab of all time P4P

Good list to start:good

But I'd make some changes

1.Larry Holmes
2.Sonny Liston-more power than Holmes but Larry made a career off this punch
3.Ali
4.Ike Quartey
5.Joe Louis

Almost: Tommy Hearns, Fighting Harada (watch his fights with Jofre for reference)

 

1. Holmes
2. Hearns
3. Ali
4. Wlad Klit
5. Joe Louis / Sonny Liston / Arguello

MR.BILL

 

Harold Johnson.

 

1. Quartey
2. Holmes
3. Ali
4. Winky Wright
5. Lewis

Honourable mentions to Oscar, Michael Moorer, Pernell and Sonny Liston.

 

wow, that's a name you don't see here a lot! Wish i could see more of his fights to be a better judge

 

Good jabs all but Winky's is nowhere near Liston's. Good choice with Lewis but he didn't really start using it til Manny got on board

 

I don't necessarily think he had the greatest jab of all-time but it was extremely under-appreciated. He was an excellent technician.

 

Ali
Liston
Foreman
Lewis
Whitaker

 

Of recent times, Lewis & Winky.

 

Mayweather has a great jab...not the greatest jabber but brilliant top 10

 

Jack Johnson also had an excellent jab. His speciality was slipping the jab and countering with his own.

 

Is there a reason people are nameing pre-dominantly heavies?

Of all the lists so far, 4 of the 5 have been heavyweights.

 

I'm just going to piggyback this into making a top 5 Hw jab list; I know it's not what the thread called for, but I can't pretend to be able to rank all the people across weights into just 5 when it comes to this.

1a)Holmes
1b)Wlad
3) Liston
4)Ali
5) Lewis

Holmes and Wlad rank at the top for me because they each had a tremendously balenced jab- speed, power, accuracy, length, and gameplans that kept them using it. Liston had a jackhammer of a jab, but I don't think he could really snap it out there as fast as some of the others on the list. Ali had speed and precision, but it wasn't as damaging as the others, but still effective. Lewis had a very good all-around jab, but he didn't focus on it as much as the others.

I'll let someone else do a P4P one.

 

Good list, maybe Willie Pep could squeeze in there somewhere.