Great punches you saw a fighter take without going down, incredibly

I'd add the counter-left Sanders landed on Vitali. Caught him flush coming in, and its the first time I saw Sanders land that punch without at least a KD.

 

Tyson did well to take that right hand from Holyfield in the 10th when he was already stunned.

 

Oleg Maskaev (surprisingly) took Rahman's great right hand in the 1st round. Check at 9:50 to 10:00

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Too many to mention in the later rounds of Robinson-LaMotta VI

 

Yeah Cotto took just as much if not more punishment from Canelo as a beat up fighter and a much smaller man and nobody seems to think of that as a great show of toughness

 

Tyson took an awesome shot from razor ruddock in the end of the 6th round of the rematch. An uppercut he ducked right into which knocked out his mouthpiece.

Holyfield took some bombs by Lewis. One uppercut in the rematch went right under his chin and Holy just tanked it like a boss.

Tua landed one leaping hook that I remember against Lewis that surprisingly didn't hurt him much.

Brook amazingly never went down vs GGG

Hopkins took some insane punishment vs Kovalev in the last round after he stunned Sergey and Sergey got really angry.

John Ruiz landed a couple of good shots with real leverage on them in round 1 that surprisingly(in hindsight) didn't hurt RJJ that much. One right hand in particular in the first half of the fight landed right on the chin and was shown in replay after the round and RJJ just laughed at him.

 

All of the bombs Hagler took from Mugabi.

 

I think it was the second Frazier vs Quarry fight. Frazier hit Quarry with a left hook that literally stopped him in his tracks, like he was knocked out momentarily while still standing.

 

I was amazed at that big left hook Duran ate from Barkley. Spun him around in a circle. There weren't many middles taking that shot & here was a former lightweight getting hit on the button in an already tough fight. Most guys eating Barkley leather for 7 rounds are not taking that homerun shot.

Bazooka Limon ate one of those Arguello straight right hands and stayed on his feet. Beat to the punch and somewhat like the right hand Pryor ate. Wide open and bang. Then again, you could have a post about the best 10 big shots Limon ate from various fighters.

I thought Pinky Thomas absorbing that brutal left hook from Weaver may be the best body shot I saw someone take. Weaver bent to the side and unleashed that thing that was on par with the way Frazier dug to the body. Everything in it. He sank that thing in there and it looked like it was coming out the other side of his torso. Thomas had like zero defense set up for a body punch & was concentrating on a left hook upstairs. Thomas turned about 2 shades lighter but had his legs to avoid further punishment. What a devastating punch to absorb. Let alone shake off and go a few more rounds and win the fight, as opposed to going into a shell the way most do when absorbing to the breadbasket.

 

Ruddock took a better shot from Tyson in their first bout just before the stoppage.

 

Sugar Ray Leonard took a massive right hand off Hearns in their second bout just before the first knockdown.

 

Well, he staggered him badly, and Vitali dropped to his knees shortly afterwards, so it definitely had an effect.

 

I've seen that happen a couple of times, most recently Chad Dawson landing that huge uppercut on Jean Pascal.

 

Mavrovic took a number of those shots and lasted the distance. His chin was even better.

 

I've watched that fight so many times and to this day I still don't understand how he lasted the distance. He was eating flush combination after flush combination and kept on pressing. It's such a shame that was Mavrovic's last fight, he was never going to achieve greatness, but could have got himself a couple of wins at world level.