Re: Who had the best jab?
Posted: 04 Apr 2010, 06:40
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The best jab?
At Heavyweight? Larry Holmes
Pound per pound?
I could say 3 of them. Especially, Sugar Ray Leonard, Carlos Monzon and Thomas Hearns
Agreed.jaclem2 wrote:.....yes! ali was never able to clearly beat ken norton because norton' jab matched ali's and ali kept backing up until he was on or near the ropes , where the real exchanges took place and norton held his own.
oklay.. saw these fights live and haven't looked at the tapes for years, but this is how i remember them. so someone may now come on who has just studied them and blow my arguments away as far as the exchanges and such...but norton did credit his jab for the reason he did so well against ali.
irrelevant anyway, as i stick to my opinion that foreman would have won that fight if he had used his jab efficiently. ali didn't win that fight with his movement....he stayed on the loosened ropes and george fought a dumb fight by wearing himself out hitting ali's arms.