Most successful fighters with a crap jab

Who are they ?

 

Williams

 

Lacy

 

Corrales often didn't use his jab for much.

 

Joe Frazier? Won the biggest fight of all time without much of a jab to speak of... bobbing, weaving, left hook, beats ali 9 of 15 rounds.

 

on a random tangent - corrales developed an amazing short counter left hook after the mayweather fight that is unparalleled to me. defies logic as well because he never seemed to have leverage on it, but it was a devastating punch.

did anyone have a punch like that in history? i might have to look back on diego's fights to point out where he used this punch, but i know you guys know this punch he had....

 

If somebody doesn't use a jab it doesn't mean that it isn't because their jab good.

 

First person i thought of

 

This too.

 

Oleg Maskaev. Shockingly, his two best wins came against a fighter with a great jab, in Hasim Rahman.

William Joppy would have to be another one. A very average jab.

 

Roy Jones didnt have a crap jab but for a successful fighter, he rarely used it

 

Ike Quartey. opcorn:

 

:giggle:

Funny....his jab was down to nothing in some of his fights, like the last rounds vs that Mexican weed-surf dude. If you turned that fight on for the last few rounds you would have assumed Ike had no jab.

 

Nigel Benn was positively allergic to throwing jabs.

MTF

 

Nigel thinks jabs are for doctors.

 

It was this punch that basically ended the first Castillo fight. Corrales had already turned the momentum of the fight with that earlier right hand and left hook, but the counter left hook over Castillo's right at the 2:20 mark took a ton out of Castillo. His body reaction says it all.


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how was this topic not started by Double L?

 

word. (was thinking the same thing)

 

Roy also had a good chin but later in his career he forgot to use it:stir:

 

Good thread; I can't recall this question ever being brought up. More than anything, I'd think this topic would illustrate just how important the jab is. I don't think there's too many top guys whose jab was crap.

These guys come to mind as fighters who had some success in spite of their below average jabs:


Tua
Mickey Ward
Lacey
Areola
McCullough

 

Good call; although, I wouldn't even say Joppy's jab was average, given that he was fighting at the championship level. His jab was effective at times because he kept it in his opponents' face, but technique wise, it was crap. And Trinidad showed how easily it could be countered.