Originally Posted by greynotsoold
You are supposed to catch your opponent's jab in your right glove and then counter with your own jab. That is a basic Boxing 1A move: as he jabs you are pivoting (circling) to your left and jabbing so that your punch, despite starting a split second later, and due to you cutting the distance by circling, arrives an instant berfore you catch his.
The 'rising' jab...if you look at the old time guys like Burley, Charles, Moore, Walcott and countless others, NOBODY threw a jab that began with their left glove in front of the face. Why? Because you can't throw a good jab from that spot- you can straighten your arm but that is about it. Billy Graham had a tremendous left hand, very educated, and he threw it from slightly below shoulder level. To use this type of jab, as Thomas alluded to, you cannot be square to your opponent. You must give him an angle and a narrow target unless you WANT to get hit all night. The angle of the body puts the left shoulder in front of the right and makes him travel a distance to land the hook. Meanwhile you can get a tremendous amount of force- a 'stiff' jab- due to the shoulder you get into it and the coordination with the push off of your back foot.
Witherspoon, as I recall, kept his right glove across the left side of his face, left arm low to protect his body and his left side well forward. So, yeah, he threw his jab from down low, a 'rising' jab. And he also obtained tremendous turn on his right hand with which he scored most of his KOs.