Why is the jab so underrated by boxers?

no it isn't, what have you been watching mma?

 

delete.

 

If you do not use the jab properly you do not get your offence going. Just look at Tyson pre/post Douglas if you do not believe me. Hatton found that out, the painful way last week as well.

 

Because boxers are lazy and wanna go for the big punch.

 

Most great fighters use the jab, the crude swingers that go for KO's get beat by those great fighters 90% of the time. That is the beauty of the sweet science.

 

The jab, whether it is used as a points scoring tool, a battering ram, a rapier, or even as a measuring rod, is an invaluable weapon used in one of those ways, to one degree or another by just about all fighters, whether great or not, to various degrees of effectiveness. I don't think that it's being neglected, except by certain guys like Mayweather, who, like Roy Jones Jr., who at one time, being a similar primadonna like Floyd didn't think that he needed it either, until the roof fell in unexpectedly on him. Now poor ol' Roy is older and wiser for the experience and gratefully uses it as one of the only devices left he can muster to avoid disaster again, and that, of course, is not a given by any means. Floyd, while he now thinks he's a confirmed immortal, greater than Ali, Robinson, Pep, Monzon, Leonard, etc., due to the fact that he triumphed over that great measuring stick of greatness, Ricky Hatton, has more advanced ways of pursuing victories, and leaves the jab to all those lesser, pedestrian fighters that he has now surpassed. One day, as happens to just about all of the "wonder-boys", the wall are gonna come tumbilg down on the "Pretty Boy", and he will then revamp his style so as to include the humble jab as part of his arsenal, ala RJJR. Look at the big picture and see what I mean.

 

:huh who uses the jab to the body better than pbf??

 

I agree with this - the jab is an essential tool in boxing, particularly at the elite level. There are very few fighters who can be successful at the top levels of the game without having at least a decent jab.

This said, I am not fond, as a fan, of watching jab-fests - if that's all they are. I like it when guys at least mix it up a little bit with some haymakers. And I must admit a fondness for a low-skill fight with guys just winging punches.

There's more than enough fighters who are good at jabbing - if people like jab fests, watch those fighters.

 

There are two reasons:

One . . . these fighters have very poor basics.

two . . . They have dumb trainers.

Three . . . both one and two. :yep

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