How Good is Mayweather's Chin?

Par excellence.

 

Mayweather has a solid chin though, he's not going to fold under pressure. I just meant IMO guys like Hopkins should be ranked above him, even with the knock downs I don't think Bernard has been buzzed by a punch in his life. I don't even mind the chincheckers I just wish they had better criteria of determining chins as opposed to just counting KD's and KO's.

I know you were joking, but had to clarify.

 

not the greatest but he has great awareness and the ability to fight and recuperate while hurt

 

Good enough to negate the chances of him being stopped via getting caught cold. (Ala Jones)

His defence should ensure he doesn't take the sustained beating needed to stop him.

 

Did he even get punched in the face by Corrales? I think the whole magic of his performance was that he totally avoided any punishment. That's not a testament to his chin, but his defense. I don't remember his jaw being tested by Corrales, but hey, that was in 2001. What I meant by 2001, who exactly has he faced since then that tested his chin? Ok, go further back, who ever tested MW's chin? :?

Judah... Can't say he really tested MW's chin. Ok, he tested it, but it wasn't a very hard test. In some instances, he hurt Mayweather (see vid below at 2 minutes) A good test, sure, I'm don't doubt anyone will claim that Mayweather doesn't have a good chin, he does have a good chin, but we can't really say anything beyond that IMHO. Those who could have really tested his chin were avoided. He got hit and survived Judah, but got hurt/stunned... Is that a good chin? IMHO, a good chin wouldn't have really got hurt...

IMHO, which is little more then a guess, the extent of his jaw's greatness is none: He doesn't have a great jaw. He has an ok/good jaw. He got hit and hurt on some occasions, vs cherry picked opponents, and got hurt. Definitely not a great or GOAT jaw... But he definitely has a decent chin... Even good you could say since he did take and survive some punches... But great? No.. If he really had a great chin, he'd have taken on bigger challenges, his reluctance doing so imho definitely hints that his jaw isn't the greatest, he is scared of getting hurt and KO'd.

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I have to say,I suspected you might have been Gary McArthur,but I learned my lesson when I asked a guy with Glasgow dialect called BurnsyBoy if he was Ricky Burns.
It wasn't.atsch

 

He took Shane's and Cotto's quite well and didn't skip a beat. Also to be able to compose himself when he rarely gets hit and battle back smart is what is truely shocking. You figure for someone who hardly gets hit gets hit will prolly not compose very well.

 

All the facts have been posted here by respected posters such as myself and MetalMandible. YDKSAB, Mayweather has a very good chin.

 

Pacquiao HAS been down several times....

Infact Pacquiao has been K.O'd

I'm not comparing his chin to Mayweathers just saying......

I dont know if Mayweathers chin can be described as "amazing" but it doesnt need to be his defense is excellent!

The truth is I don't think anyone truely knows how good Mayweathers chin is he could have a Hagler like chin but he understands that the more you take the more likely you are going to end up like Ali.

 

when he was a skinny little kid... 'jaw' changes with muscles, conditioning, etc. The fact some guy took some shots in 2000 vs 130 pounds opponents doesn't mean he could take hard shots at 150... Manny's early KO is really irrelevant imho, you want to rate Manny's jaw or balls, check out his fights vs bigger and hard hitting opponents!

Especially when he doesn't fight the fighters that could put him on his ass...

Right, he didn't take the hard fights so we don't know how good a chin he has...

(don't know why I keep saying jaw instead of chin ... lol)

 

Looking back at the Judah vs Mayweather fight, Judah showed a good chin. :yep He got hit cleanly and took very well the punches.