How Good Was Wills Chin?

I know Langford, Mcvey, and Uzcudon dropped him. Tate was supposed to have dropped him.

 

And he quickly quit a match vs. Jim Battling Johnson and was KO'd in two vs Kid Cotton.

I think Wills' chin was all right but certainly suspect to the better punchers. Langford KO'd him twice. McVey floored him.

You could say Wills was born at the right time, as he was significantly younger than his best competition in Langford, McVey, and Jeannette, and his generation of fighters that started boxing post-1910 was not quite as good as the generation who started boxing around 1900.

 

When the truth meets a boxer you don't care about or don't dislike you'll agree with me often.

 

Geez, twice in a day. I better stop posting.

Hamed is a smug punk, who ****ed away his prime and thinks he's better than he really was. There are other boxers who you defend with similarities, including spending time in prison as Hamed did

I would have paid PPV type of money to see him re-match Kevin Kelly, who in my opinion exposed Hamed as just very good, clearly not great.

 

Not sure how Wills chin can be criticized. He was stopped just five times in a career of 25 years. Once at the beginning of his career against a guy with much more top level experience, once when he was a shot 35 years old in the 20th yr of his career, once when he had to quit with a broken wrist (love the lame ass criticism of quickly quitting, nice one lamedoza) and twice to one of the all time hardest hitters in the history of the sport. So really he was only legitimately stopped twice anytime near his prime and those came to a guy whose power is legendary, who you didnt exactly need to have a glass jaw to get kod by.

 

My inclination is that Wills chin was pretty good.

His early and late stoppages should be treated as just that.

He got thrown in the pit early, and carried on late.

The only person who really checked his chin was Langford.

Now people did absolutely freaky things when Langford hit them with a sneak punch, and Wills was really testing the odds by fighting him so often!

 

Granted.

But if you look at the number of top fighters, and the number of top unchers that Wills fough, he was beating the odds over a long period.