Pick Your Punch

[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.