Biggest inverse ratio of chin to knockdowns suffered. (best recoverers)

DeMarcus Corley - stopped only 6 times in 66 contests, two of those corner retirements.

Went the distance with prime Randall Bailey (not going down once), prime Zab Judah (down 1x), prime Floyd Mayweather Jr. (down 2x), prime Junior Witter (down once, but not officially ruled), prime Devon Alexander (not down), Bailey again in a rematch (down 1x), Marcos Rene Maidana (down 1x), Thomas Dulorme (down 1x), Ruslan Provodnikov (not down), Gabriel Bracero (down 1x), and Viktor Postol (not down).

That's eight knockdowns in distance contests. Add in the ones from his stoppage losses:

Miguel Cotto x3
Jose Alfaro x2
Freddy Hernandez x1 (fight ending single blow, although Corley took it on a week's notice)
Lucas Matthysse x9

(not down against Manny Perez or Selcuk Aydin)


...and that is twenty-three career knockdowns, yet I assert that Corley has an excellent chin. :bart

Being susceptible to knockdowns isn't the be-all end-all when it comes to chin, IMO. Recuperative powers are just as important. The guy who dribbles off the canvas fifty times in his career but is never kept down has a better chin IMO than someone who is only ever down a handful of times, but all of them leg-splattering, chicken-dancing, lights-out reactions to grazing blows.


Along with Chop Chop, among active boxers, I'd say Juan Manuel Marquez (down officially eight times, never stopped) and Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam (down officially eleven times, never stopped) have the p4p greatest recovery.

 

Good thread. I'm not a big Evander Holyfield fan in general, but I'd say he deserves mention here. I've never seen a HW seem as hurt as him so often and immediately come back to hurt his opponent. In some ways, it was his best trait. I recall it in particular happening in every Bowe fight and in the Foreman fight, but seems to have happened quite a bit more than that.

 

JMM comes to mind

 

Nice discovery, surely Juan Manuel Marquez is up there for fantastic powers of recovery and a solid chin.

Alvarado knocked him down
Pacquiao knocked him down in 1,2 and 4
Mayweather knocked him down
Katsidis knocked him down.

edit just saw you gave him props.

 

Yeah, given his reputation for dusting himself off and coming back strong I was actually surprised to learn he is only in single digits in terms of knockdowns suffered. I figured he'd be up in the same territory as HNN around the dozen mark, if not closer to Corley. Most of his come from the Pacquiao rivalry alone, though...five of his eight.

I don't think you'll find too many guys like Corley with over twenty knockdowns suffered about whom you can reasonably argue "...but they have an excellent chin". :think

 

Nigel Benn! Down heavily against Logan, DeWitt and McClellan and went on to STOP them.

 

Carl Thompson.

 

Salido kinda comes to mind as well.

 

Martínez was down nine times. If you subtract the farcical Cotto loss when he fought on a bum knee, only six.

(1x each, officially, against Chavez Jr., Murray and Macklin - although Chavez Jr. had another one uncredited...then once each in Williams, Pavlik I, and Margarito in the 1st round, though he gamely trudged on through another six rounds of punishment and was ultimately stopped on his feet)

 

The first person I thought of when I saw this thread was JMM who has already been mentioned.

 

Obvious answer is obvious:Arturo Gatti

 

Charles Brewer.