I can't think of an elite champion in boxing history (maybe if you go back to like the 40s or 50s) who had a jab as **** and non-existed as Mosley.
Can you name a former or current champ who's jab was worse?
Deontay wasn’t an elite champion the level of Shane though. Wilder was at no point even ever the best HW. Maybe even second best
I mean, he's top 3 of this generation. Probably a slight edge on AJ at that. Making him #2 behind Fury. Because now we see that AJ can't cope with getting hit hard.
He's not ATG type though. I can agree there.
I've seen him throw good ones before
He'd be a lot better if whoever was coaching him, actually coached him right (jab-cross; boxing 101). Instead of relying on that leverage + natural power.
He's not as bad as some make him out to be. He was just never taught how to box.
Deontay Wilder
literally has no clue what a jab is.
Deontay wasn’t an elite champion the level of Shane though. Wilder was at no point even ever the best HW. Maybe even second best
I can't think of an elite champion in boxing history (maybe if you go back to like the 40s or 50s) who had a jab as **** and non-existed as Mosley.
Can you name a former or current champ who's jab was worse?
It was a bit predictable, he would throw a lazy left jab to setup a over hand right
He used it as a rangefinder. Nigel Benn never jabbed. Judah wasn’t a great jabber, or Manny or Floyd either. Roy Jones flicked and pawed . Frazier too.
It’s a hard one. Mosley displayed a very good jab at times. Like in the first De La Hoya fight. It’s not like a Miguel Cotto jab or Quartey or anything “potent” like that but he had a great one in that fight. It was varied, not always that jittery ass s hit he’d poke out and he kept it in Oscar’s face the ENTIRE night and would follow it up not JUST with overhand rights like be did as he got older. And considering how good Oscar’s own lead hand was, that was so impressive that fight.
That Oscar-Mosley 1 fight was incredible and about as good as it gets with two truly top of the food chain fighters at good points in their career.
Once he was at 47 (does Adrian Stone count? He did set up the stoppage with a bunch of jabs) it was non existent. I don’t know if it was a power thing or his reflexes or him just being so damn fast that he could mostly make due but yeah. It’s hard to say his jab was the worst because the THREAT of a jab or any punch from him just from his sheer speed even had Pacquiao deterred way late into his career.
He brought it with Marg to a degree...but Marg isn’t exactly killin the defensive/speed game. But at 135 he was different. Used it against john john molina with effect. But be was also more mobile when he was younger and much less flat footed on a hair trigger waiting to explode. Even if they were throwaways, he filled space with it and would create angles off it back then