Pick Your Punch

[marbleheadmaui]

The Creator has decreed you will become a professional fighter with unremarkable height, reach, speed, chin, reflexes, power, defense, balance, footwork and spatial awareness. All those are good enough to allow you to compete with the top 20 or so guys in your division, but nothing special.

But THEN you get a choice. You can choose ONE punch (jab, hook to the body, straight right etc) which will be extraordinary. If you choose the jab it will be quick, hard, straight and able to be thrown in doubles and triples. If a hook to the body it will dig deep and accurately land on vulnerable spots and so on and so forth.

What dominant punch do you choose and why?

[killersheep]

The Creator has decreed you will become a professional fighter with unremarkable height, reach, speed, chin, reflexes, power, defense, balance, footwork and spatial awareness. All those are good enough to allow you to compete with the top 20 or so guys in your division, but nothing special.

But THEN you get a choice. You can choose ONE punch (jab, hook to the body, straight right etc) which will be extraordinary. If you choose the jab it will be quick, hard, straight and able to be thrown in doubles and triples. If a hook to the body it will dig deep and accurately land on vulnerable spots and so on and so forth.

What dominant punch do you choose and why?

jab without a doubt. It consistently wins more matches than any other punch.

[Spicoli]

The silent unseen assasin, the uppercut. It can be an extremely double edge sword if used wrongly but timing, footwork I think it's the most difficult punch to defend against and prepare for.

[mattboxingfan]

I want to say left hook because it is my favorite punch to use in boxing however the jab sets up everything and an extra ordinary jab would just dominate.

[Master]

Prime Roy Jones left hook knocks out most of you jabbers.

[marbleheadmaui]

I think I'd choose the jab too. But man that hook to the body is tempting. Guys like Olivares and Zarate and Chavez just debilitated guys with it.

[JazMerkin]

The Creator has decreed you will become a professional fighter with unremarkable height, reach, speed, chin, reflexes, power, defense, balance, footwork and spatial awareness. All those are good enough to allow you to compete with the top 20 or so guys in your division, but nothing special.

But THEN you get a choice. You can choose ONE punch (jab, hook to the body, straight right etc) which will be extraordinary. If you choose the jab it will be quick, hard, straight and able to be thrown in doubles and triples. If a hook to the body it will dig deep and accurately land on vulnerable spots and so on and so forth.

What dominant punch do you choose and why?

You couldn't have unremarkable balance, footwork & spatial awareness & then have one great punch imo. Certainly not the jab. Great spatial awareness is key to having any excellent punch, as it's how your measure those crucial inches to get a punch landing just right. Footwork is also a must as you create those angles to land that punch.

Given that this fighter has average speed & power, I would also go for the jab, but only because if you've not got a KO punch with those others, than you need to be reliant on outboxing possibly quicker & more powerful opponents. The jab would leave you least open to counters. Also having just one great punch would leave you lacking variety & making you predictable. For my money, you have to have great punch variety to be able to get to the top.

[marbleheadmaui]

The Creator has decreed you will become a professional fighter with unremarkable height, reach, speed, chin, reflexes, power, defense, balance, footwork and spatial awareness. All those are good enough to allow you to compete with the top 20 or so guys in your division, but nothing special.

But THEN you get a choice. You can choose ONE punch (jab, hook to the body, straight right etc) which will be extraordinary. If you choose the jab it will be quick, hard, straight and able to be thrown in doubles and triples. If a hook to the body it will dig deep and accurately land on vulnerable spots and so on and so forth.

What dominant punch do you choose and why?

You couldn't have unremarkable balance, footwork & spatial awareness & then have one great punch imo. Certainly not the jab. Great spatial awareness is key to having any excellent punch, as it's how your measure those crucial inches to get a punch landing just right. Footwork is also a must as you create those angles to land that punch.

Given that this fighter has average speed & power, I would also go for the jab, but only because if you've not got a KO punch with those others, than you need to be reliant on outboxing possibly quicker & more powerful opponents. The jab would leave you least open to counters. Also having just one great punch would leave you lacking variety & making you predictable. For my money, you have to have great punch variety to be able to get to the top.

And the man destroys my post in a few short, well thought out, sentences. A Salvador Sanchez quality counter!

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

The Creator has decreed you will become a professional fighter with unremarkable height, reach, speed, chin, reflexes, power, defense, balance, footwork and spatial awareness. All those are good enough to allow you to compete with the top 20 or so guys in your division, but nothing special.

But THEN you get a choice. You can choose ONE punch (jab, hook to the body, straight right etc) which will be extraordinary. If you choose the jab it will be quick, hard, straight and able to be thrown in doubles and triples. If a hook to the body it will dig deep and accurately land on vulnerable spots and so on and so forth.

What dominant punch do you choose and why?

You couldn't have unremarkable balance, footwork & spatial awareness & then have one great punch imo. Certainly not the jab. Great spatial awareness is key to having any excellent punch, as it's how your measure those crucial inches to get a punch landing just right. Footwork is also a must as you create those angles to land that punch.

I was gonna say a gut busting, momentum halting jab to the body but then I thought the same thing. You can't be expected to maneuver in such a way with only average athletic abilities.

But yeah for the sake of having some fun, I'd say a jab downstairs because the way I see it, If I was incredibly average, I'd want to stall, offset and slow my opponent down as much as possible and so I assume the punch that can do all of those things is a gut busting, momentum halting jab to the body

[Manos de Piedra]

The Creator has decreed you will become a professional fighter with unremarkable height, reach, speed, chin, reflexes, power, defense, balance, footwork and spatial awareness. All those are good enough to allow you to compete with the top 20 or so guys in your division, but nothing special.

But THEN you get a choice. You can choose ONE punch (jab, hook to the body, straight right etc) which will be extraordinary. If you choose the jab it will be quick, hard, straight and able to be thrown in doubles and triples. If a hook to the body it will dig deep and accurately land on vulnerable spots and so on and so forth.

What dominant punch do you choose and why?

I couldn't decide between jab and left hook to the body. The jab can alone win you fights but you need a bit more than unremarkable attributes to succeed with just one good punch. This can be a new thread, Is there an ATG fighter with unremarkable attributes and had one great punch?? nobody better to ask than marble himself.

[Master]

Larry Holmes had the best jab of all, Joe Louis had accuracy, Liston had power, Lewis had point scoring, Ali had speed but Holmes was all that and more. He varied the speed; it was piercing and caused damage like no other.

[marbleheadmaui]

The Creator has decreed you will become a professional fighter with unremarkable height, reach, speed, chin, reflexes, power, defense, balance, footwork and spatial awareness. All those are good enough to allow you to compete with the top 20 or so guys in your division, but nothing special.

But THEN you get a choice. You can choose ONE punch (jab, hook to the body, straight right etc) which will be extraordinary. If you choose the jab it will be quick, hard, straight and able to be thrown in doubles and triples. If a hook to the body it will dig deep and accurately land on vulnerable spots and so on and so forth.

What dominant punch do you choose and why?

I couldn't decide between jab and left hook to the body. The jab can alone win you fights but you need a bit more than unremarkable attributes to succeed with just one good punch. This can be a new thread, Is there an ATG fighter with unremarkable attributes and had one great punch?? nobody better to ask than marble himself.

HAH! I think I've been hoisted on my own petard! If I wanted to stretch the point I'd say Marciano and Suzie Q, but the Rock had some other serious gifts. Pipino Cuevas maybe? The left hook from hell? Pipino isn't an ATG. I think you guys have made a critical point that I ignored and shouldn't have.