Who's the toughest fighter of all time?

1- Hagler

2- Andries against Hearns ( round 6 )

 

Saad Muhammad, LaMotta

These guys took hellacious punishment at times, and rallied back to win numerous times after taking a lot of punishment.

Hagler was tough, but he didn't take as much punishment in fights like those guys. I would put him up there with best chins, though.

 

Saad muhammed was tko,d 8 times ! Lamotta once i believe...

 

Saad Muhammad was never stopped in his prime.

Of course, the punishment eventually caught up with him.

During a 5 yr period (1976-1981) he fought a who's who of light heavyweight contenders of the period, and often took large doses of punishment in fights, usually rallying back to win. He was never stopped during this time period. He was the epitome of toughness during his prime.

 

Carmen Bassilo
Raging Bull
Foreman II

 

Too many to choose from, but if you put a gun to my head, I would say Battling Nelson.

 

:think

 

Arturo Gatti has to rank up there.

 

HM- Larry Holmes

 

Holyfield first came to mind

 

I think at heavyweight it's still Chuvalo .. I have never seen anyone take the flush shots he was taking from a brutal, young , fresh George Foreman and remain standing .. he had to hit dead on fifteen times in forty five seconds nd was still standing .. very under rated is Marovic who took monster shots from Lennox Lewis in his title losing effort.

 

Saad Muhammad in his prime was one tough sob, one of my favorites. In his prime you could never count him out. The 2nd fight with Yaqui Lopez was a war, as were many of his fights.

 

1974-2013 Chris Kyle: US Navy Seal sniper Iraq War, 160 confirmed kills, 255 probable kills
1949-present Chuck Mawhinney: Vietnam marine sniper 103 confirmed kills, 216 probable kills
1942-1999 Carlos Hath****: Vietnam marine sniper 93 confirmed kills
1938-1979 Joe Hooper: Vietnam soldier credited with 115 enemy kills in ground combat, 22 the day he earned the MOH
1933-1995 Adelbert Waldron: Vietnam US Army sniper with 109 confirmed kills
1931-2007 Zhang Taofang: Chinese Korean War sniper, 214 kills in 32 days
1924-1999 Lloyd L. Burke: MOH Korean War, killed 100 men, 2 mortar, 3 machine gun nests
1924-1971 Audie Murphy: most decorated American ww2, fought off a company from a burning tank
1924-2004 Matthaus Hetzenauer- German ww2 sniper, 345 kills
1922-present Hiroo Onoda: guerrilla fighter surrendered 30 years after ww2 was over
1922-1993 Erich Hartmann: German ww2 ace, 352 aerial victories, 1,404 combat missions
1921-1945 Kurt Knispel: German ww2 tank ace, 168 destroyed enemy tanks
1921-2008 Leo Major: captured a city single handed in WW2
1919-1942 Hans-Joachim M****ille: German ww2 ace, 158 victories over western forces
1919-present Ivan Sidorenko: Russian ww2 sniper, 500 kills
1918-1991 Poon Lim: survived alone on a life raft for 133 days, ate sharks
1916-1982 Hans-Ulrich Rudel: ww2 german stuka pilot, 2,530 combat missions, 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, one Soviet battleship, 70 landing craft, 4 armored trains, several bridges and nine aircraft which he shot down.
1916-1974 Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Russian ww2 sniper, 309 confirmed kills
1915-1991 Vasily Zaytsev: Russian ww2 sniper, 242 verified kills
1914-1942 Michael Wittmann: German ww2 tank ace, 138 tanks, 132 anti-tank guns
1913-1994 Johannes Steinhoff: German ww2 ace 176 aerial victories
1908-1994 Charles Upham: New Zealand ww2, 2VCs, and some awesome escapes as a POW
1908-1975 Otto Skorzeny: German ww2, led a series of daring raids, rescued Mussolini
1906-1996 Jack Churchill: WW2 soldier fought with broadsword and bow
1905-2002 Simo Hayha: Winter War Finnish sniper 505 confirmed kills, +200 submachinegun
1898-1971 Chesty Puller: most decorated U.S. Marine in history 5 Navy Crosses
1892-1918 Manfred von Richthofen: Red Baron, German ww1, 80 air combat victories
1891-1952 Francis Pegamagabow: Canadian ww1 sniper, 378 kills, 300 captures
1887-1964 Alvin C. York: most decorated ww1 American, killed 28, captured 132, and 32 mchguns
1886-1943 Billy Sing: Australian ww1 sniper: 150 confirmed kills
1873-1937 Daniel Daly: 2MOH, killed 200 in Boxer Rebellion
1837-1876 Wild Bill Hickok: lawman, duelist, and gambler shot between 30 and 100 men
1824-1900 Liver-Eating Johnson: 12 year one man war against Crow Indians
1823-1887 John Prettyjohns: first VC recipient Cremea War, ran out of bullets, used rocks instead
1816-? Jonathan R. Davis: killed 11 bandits with 2 pistols and a bowie knife
1796-1836 James Bowie: knife fighter, frontiersman, soldier, died at the Alamo
1785-1865 Jean-Louis Michel: Napoleonic fencer, defeated 13 opponents in 40 minutes
1780-1833 Hugh Glass: killed bear with knife, left for dead, crawled 200 miles to safety
1763-1808 Lewis Wetzel: Indian Hunter, guerrilla sniper
1754-1834 Richard Martin: fought over 100 duels with swords, knives, and pistols, survived 2 shipwrecks
1664-1730 Donald McBane: swordsman, soldier, gambler, pimp, and author
1584-1645 Miyamoto Musashi: victor of 60 sword duels
1473-1524 Pierre Terrail: French soldier held off 200 Spanish soldiers at a bridge during the Battle of Garigliano
1147-1219 William Marshal: defeated 500 knights in tourneys
996-1031 Grettir Ásmundarson: Icelandic outlaw 20 years, fought multiple opponents at a time
910-990 Egill Skallagrimson: viking, pirate, mercenary, duelist, poet
48BC Marcus Cassius Scaeva: Caesar's greatest soldier
54BC Titus Pullo: Roman Centurion, played a great game of chicken with another soldier
d.479BC Aristodemos: Spartan survivor of Thermopylae, hero of the Battle of Plataea
508BC Horatius Cocles: held an army off at a bridge until it could be destroyed .

 

Maybe Billy Miske?