Did Salvador Sanchez have one of the best chins of all time?

No question. He took flush bombs from beasts like The Professor, Bazooka and arguably the hardest featherweight puncher ever in Little Red, and the expression on his face barely changed. Another feather that had a chin like that was Juan LaPorte.

 

He was down once and hurt badly against Juan Escobar when he was coming up the ranks, but in general, yeah, his chin was very solid.

 

Tell ya what. Another wee fella whose chin was absolute granite was the Pocket Rocket.

 

Good points Drew. Especially the one about when he was coming up the ranks. When he fought Escobar he was still a teenager, and I believe that that fight was below feather as well. However Im pretty certain if Escobar had fought the Little Red version of Chava, Chava ain't getting dropped.

 

He's in the mix among others for sure.

 

Id like to see him take from Saddler, Wright ,Hamed,before making a definite decision here.

 

The fact that he became more patient and refined in terms of approach probably helped his cause, too. By accounts, he was more of a brawler in his early days but became more measured as time went on.

 

Hamed became so totally enamored with his power by the time he met MAB that he became ripe for the picking. Dude could crack, though.

As for Bazooka...Gomez was a world-ender at 122lbs, but I don't know if he carried the same type of power when he went up in weight.

 

Oh, he could press and attack with the best of them. But even then, he still maintained his shape and cool in a way that he might not have done in the past. That cool, methodical pressure became his trademark after a while.