View Full Version : Who had the best jab out of all of the heavyweights?


bill1234
03-03-2007, 11:42 PM
Who had the best jab out of all of the heavyweights? I said Holmes. His jab didn't set things up, it was the punch. Who do you think had the best jab though, because that was only my opinion.

BrooklynBomber
03-03-2007, 11:44 PM
Its a split up between Louis, Lewis and Holmes.

bill1234
03-03-2007, 11:46 PM
In order, I would rate jabs as
1. Larry Holmes
2. Muhammad Ali (very close to Holmes)
3. Lennox Lewis
4. Sonny Liston
5. Joe Louis
6. Floyd Patterson

Brassangel
03-03-2007, 11:53 PM
Believe it or not, I felt as though Donavan "Razor" Ruddock had an amazing jab before he became obsessed with "the Smash!". Watch the sparring footage of Ruddock and Holmes; he gave Larry fits.

bill1234
03-03-2007, 11:55 PM
Believe it or not, I felt as though Donavan "Razor" Ruddock had an amazing jab before he became obsessed with "the Smash!". Watch the sparring footage of Ruddock and Holmes; he gave Larry fits.

That was just sparring though, in a real fight Larry would throw more, and harder/faster punches.

Rudyo
03-04-2007, 12:23 AM
I would actually go with Liston, he had huge arms and a piston like jab which could hurt a fighter on the jab alone. It was a piston like jab and very sharp.

1. Liston
2. Lewis
3. Holmes
4. Ali
5. Louis
6. Patterson

Dempsey 1919
03-04-2007, 01:16 AM
1. Liston
2. Ali
3. Holmes
4. Louis
5. Foreman

The Raging Bull
03-04-2007, 06:17 AM
1) Louis
2) Holmes
3) Ali
4) Liston
5) Lewis

hemichromis
03-04-2007, 07:36 AM
power: Liston, foreman or bruno

all round versatilty has to go to holmes. HIs jab was almost as powerful as the above but it was also very quick and accurate

bill1234
03-04-2007, 10:20 AM
Something that very few fighters has done is KO an oppent with a jab, and Holmes did that earlier in his career, and he knocked a guy down with a jab. Very few have done this.

adietheforestfa
03-04-2007, 07:40 PM
Lennox Lewis.

Mick Hucknall
03-04-2007, 07:58 PM
Holmes in my opinio followed by Liston

ceboxer15
03-04-2007, 09:22 PM
my list:

1. Liston
2. Holmes
3. Ali
4. Lewis
5. Louis
6. Patterson

Dempsey 1919
03-04-2007, 10:09 PM
Something that very few fighters has done is KO an oppent with a jab, and Holmes did that earlier in his career, and he knocked a guy down with a jab. Very few have done this.

Ali did it, too.

Southpaw Stinger
03-04-2007, 10:28 PM
Liston followed closely by Holmes then ALi then Louis. I don't think Tyson should be even on this poll.

Dynamite76
03-05-2007, 11:37 AM
larry holmes.

Bucktown Beast
03-05-2007, 11:45 AM
Definitely Holmes. He had a jab like some people's right hands.

RAESAAD II
03-05-2007, 11:51 AM
I say Holmes......

bill1234
03-05-2007, 04:40 PM
Ali did it, too.


Against who?

bill1234
03-05-2007, 04:41 PM
Liston followed closely by Holmes then ALi then Louis. I don't think Tyson should be even on this poll.


He's not on the poll.

Dempsey 1919
03-05-2007, 06:18 PM
Against who?

Patterson, Buster Mathis, etc.

Mistadobalina
03-05-2007, 06:27 PM
can someone please explain there reasoning for lennox lewis being a top 5 HW jabber? he had a good jab, i can even see him being within the top 10, but not way up there. i think mercer had a better jab than lewis, and bruno outjabbed lewis as well.

anyway...

holmes
liston
ali
louis

bill1234
03-05-2007, 08:39 PM
Patterson, Buster Mathis, etc.

Who is in the etc? That is 2.

Dempsey 1919
03-05-2007, 11:31 PM
Who is in the etc? That is 2.

I don't remember, but it's at least those two.

hemichromis
03-06-2007, 01:16 PM
can someone please explain there reasoning for lennox lewis being a top 5 HW jabber? he had a good jab, i can even see him being within the top 10, but not way up there. i think mercer had a better jab than lewis, and bruno outjabbed lewis as well.

anyway...

holmes
liston
ali
louis

i agree about lewis he pawed far more than he should have done.

Bruno, however did have a very good jab

King Koyle
03-07-2007, 11:45 AM
Liston or Holmes IMO...