Your top ten Jabbers!

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  1. Kamikaze

    Kamikaze Bye for now! banned Full Member

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    Not the ten best jabs ever, but the fighters who used it to its full potential at the highest level cut from the same cloth as say Larry Holmes.
     
  2. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    No particular order
    Holmes
    Liston
    Louis
    Archie Moore
    Mayweather
    Wlad
    Ali
    Foreman
    Lewis
    Vitali
     
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  3. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  4. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Conteh
    Loughran
    Liston
    LaRocca
    Pedroza
    Canto
    Sanchez

    Arguello
    Cervantes
    DeLaHoya
    Chandler
    The best ever Monzon
    Robinson
    LaMotta
    Forrest
     
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  5. The Fighting Yoda

    The Fighting Yoda Active Member Full Member

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    Thomas Hearns had also a great jab and Marvin Hagler had an interesting jab as southpaw and switch hitter.
     
  6. HolDat

    HolDat Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Alfredo Marcano also had a nice gazelle jab.
     
  7. The Fighting Yoda

    The Fighting Yoda Active Member Full Member

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    Okay, why not, when you enjoy his jab.
     
  8. greynotsoold

    greynotsoold Boxing Addict

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    What is a gazelle jab?
     
  9. Pat M

    Pat M Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I've never heard of a "gazelle jab", I was going to ask what it was but you beat me to it! I did hear a trainer telling his fighter to "kangaroo" one time and as far as I could tell he was wanting him to bend his knees.
     
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  10. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    GG
    Merle
    Allan
    Rob
     
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  11. Blaxx

    Blaxx Active Member Full Member

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    Pernell Whittaker
    Thomas Hearns
    Larry Holmes
    Sugar Ray Robinson
    Floyd Mayweather Jr.
     
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  12. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    No more need to be said!
     
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  13. Cobra33

    Cobra33 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Virgil Hill - made a career with basically just a jab and movement.
    Ike Quartey- powerful jab
    Winky Wright- ask Tito.
    Sweet Pea- watch vs Azuhma Nelson.
    Darius Michaleski- threwca very hard fast jab and often out jabbed boxers with longer reaches.
    Thomas Hearns- whip like jab.
    Ken Buchanan- one of the few boxers I've seen that TRIPLES up on the jab.
    Felix Strum- jab was nice and his main offensive weapon.
    Larry Holmes- the KING of all jabs to tbe extent he was what 50+ and used it to beat Butterbean.
    Lennox Lewis- good jab.
    Sonny Liston- ouch power jab.
    Pinklon Thomas- kinda like a Liston type jab.
    Ray Mercer- when he used it esp latter in his career.
    At times outjabbed Lennox Lewis in their bout.
     
  14. Flash24

    Flash24 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Most great fighters had great jabs, it is almost a prerequisite of greatness. Most great fighters usually set up their offense off the jab.
    Holmes though is the only fighter I can think of whom may have been below average if he didn't have the best jab in heavyweight history.
     
  15. Devon

    Devon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Closing the distance fast with the feet and jabbing with that movement
     
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