Antonio Margarito the greatest chin ever?

Ali took Shavers best shots and P4P Earnie punched harder than anyone Antonio fought, Hearns was also a harderr puncher P4P than anyone AM met, yet Hagler ate some of his lauded right hands flush.

 

Hagler never took the kind of sustained beatings that Margarito and Ali did.

 

Best Heavyweight Chin: Tex Cobb

Best chin of all time: Jake LaMotta

ODL had a hell of a chin too.

 

Took a lot of shots of Mugabi though and he only won fights by KO at light middle and he carried his punch up.

 

Don't forget Wayne McCullough.

His chin was simply incredible especially when you factor in his fighting style. Lot's of fighters just teed off on his chin but he never visibly staggered or went down from memory. Even his stoppage losses were basically him being saved from himself.

 

Juan Laporte
Wayne McCoullough
Gerry Penalosa
Ben Tackie
Billy Graham

 

Hes never had fights where he just stood still and covered up for large portions of time. Who did Mugabi knock out at middleweight, exactly? In fact who did he knock out?

 

Yes ODLH did have a hell of a chin, but the best chins were not the top contenders with talent to offset the fight like a OLDH or even a MMH whom had one of the top chins as well but to me those nameless journeymen with little talent, poor/average defense that fought every name fighter going up through the ranks....Chuvalo is one of these guys the clean shots he took from Foreman is something else....his defense was average he was short to average height and his power was good but not top tier he did everything well nothing great except take punches......to me Chuvalo was like the nameless journeymen.

Top tier proven chins of the last 30 yrs
James Toney
Mike McCallum
JCC
Marion Wilson

 

Tex swore the only man that really hurt him wa L Earnie Shavers He said Larry Holmes beat on me for 14 rounds but never made me feel like quitting but Earnie did Two incredidible chins Tex an Tony

 

Sakio Bika's chin warrants a mention. It seldom gets brought up in these dicussions but in fights with Bute, Codrington, Anthony Dirrell, Adonis Stevenson and also Ward and Calzaghe he proved it's quality.

 

Good shout. He was a hard man - rock solid, never looked like being hurt or stopped.

 

Apparently he soaked it in plaster-of-Paris before fights.

 

Margarito isn't even close to being top 10

 

Oliver McCall