Ike Quartey

[chinchekked]

Always was a fan of Quartey, frustrated me at times with periods of low punch output but he was definitely a good one. Legitimately had one of the better jabs you will see. Fight with Oscar was on of my favorite fights in the sense that it had a bit of everything. It will be debated for a long time as to who won that fight because it was that good and that close. Cough! Cough! Quartey eeked it out Cough! Cough!

[greynotsoold]

I think Quartey is fortunate that he fought in a time when fighters aren't as good as they should be, and that he did one thing in particular that really limited him as a fighter. Everybody talks about his jab, but this is where he screwed himself.
Watch him when he jabs, how he leans his weight way up on his left foot, to the point that the right heel comes up off the floor. That makes it impossible to throw the most basic combination in boxing, the 1-2. He had to jab, then rock his weight back, then throw the right hand, making it a 1-and-a-two. Also, jabbing like that makes it imppossible for him to close distance behind thew jab, for the same reason. He jabs and leans forward, then has to rock back, then step, then jab. This really cost him in the DLH fight.
Fighting really good fighters, that way of jabbing would have gotten him knocked out. They'd have timed that motion, that move to put the weight on the left foot, slipped the jab and hit him with a hook or right hand and stopped him. That said, Berto, Ortiz, etc...aren't good fighters so Quartey, being better, would beat them. Mayweather may very well ko him.