Once described by American boxing writers as the horizontal heavyweights, how would you rank the sturdy and some not so sturdy chins of these notable British World heavyweight champions and challengers against each other? Bob Fitzsimmons Tommy Farr Don C0ckell Henry Cooper Brian London Joe Bugner Richard Dunn Frank Bruno Lennox Lewis Henry Akinwande Herbie Hide David Haye Audley Harrison David Haye Tyson Fury Anthony Joshua Quite a lot of names there so you can just list your top 10 or even just a top 5 if you want.
Eh there's Allen and the others that Bukkake mentioned but I think Dillian Whyte should be here and Fury after getting up from Wilder derseves props
I would rate 80s and later HWs: AJ Lennox Lewis Tyson Fury Frank Bruno David Haye Henry Akinwande Herbie Hide Audley Harrison
LOL Lewis was KTFOed cold by Rahman. Wlad is MUCH harder puncher than Rahman and AJ got up and stopped him.
Wlad isn't a "much harder" puncher than Rahman, and that punch didn't look harder than the one Rahman hit Lennox with based on the way both fighters threw the shot. Didn't hit Joshua in the same awkward way Rahman's did Lennox either, which I suspect is a big reason Lennox was unable to get up from the shot. Looking at how both fighters have taken shots in their career thus far I'd say they had a similar level of chin. That might change depending on how Joshua's career pans out.
Lennox - most proven chin against the biggest number of punchers Joshua - seems to have a solid chin thus far Bruno - could take a shot without dropping but tended to freeze up when hit Fury - can't really seem to take a shot but has phenomenal recuperative powers, complete opposite of Bruno Bugner - seems to have taken a solid shot, but not upper echelon in that regard Haye - his chin seemed better at HW than CW but he wasn't anything special Harrison - below average chin and total fear of his opponents made him a joke to stop Hide - physically the worst able to take a shot, awful chin
Love this, Lewis is always blasted because of his loses but people forget about the punishment he took in the Vitali, Briggs and Mercer fights without being KO'ed
