Top 5, Middle Weight Chins?

These were the best chins when you think Eubank, Hagler and LaMotta!

How in 24 hard paced rounds did McCallum and Toney stay standing and fresh. Not massive punchers but they had the ability to land clean on each other fairly often.

 

LaMotta
Monzon
Eubank
Hagler
Gorilla Jones

It's tough since you have Toney, Basilio, who could easily make the list. Even the modern Middleweights Canelo, Golovkin, have pretty solid rock hard chins aswell.

 

Hagler, Mugabi, Canello, GGG, LaMotta - all have great chins.

 

Mugabi? A "great" chin? Top #5 of all time? You are completely off your rocker.

 

Tiger
Henry Hank
Hagler
Greb
LaMotta

 

I said he had a great chin, not that it's an automatic top 5 all time.
It's hard for me to create a top 5 in this area, there are far too many variables.

 

The guy was almost taken out by James Green, a 5'4 junior middleweight who never took out anybody. For sure he fought out of his skin against Hagler before being stopped rapidly by anyone with a pulse.

A decent poster would name 50+ more proven chins without too much trouble.

Ever heard of boxers called Monzon, Giardello, Graham, Eubank, Hamsho, McCallum, Toney, SRR, Valdez, Briscoe, Hopkins and any amount of others. There's 11 or so without even thinking miles above John.

Mugabi most certainly did not have a "great" chin. He was stopped inside a round twice in what should have been prime years. Do you see that sort of thing with any of the 11 above?

 

Hagler
LaMotta
Tiger
Eubank Sr
Golovkin/Monzon

Toney's an honourable Mention

 

I haven't seen enough of Giardello, Graham, Hamsho and Valdez to give a valid opinion.
The rest were all great, but Mugabi simply stuck with me cause of the great match he put up against Hagler.

 

My dad swore that Tony Zale had the best chin he'd seen. It wasn't that he couldn't be knocked out. He was stopped 5 times. It was that, according to my dad, he was nailed solidly on the chin so many times in so many fights that he should have been knocked out way more than five times.

 

Abraham, Toney and Canelo

 

My top 10
Hagler
Monzon
Robinson
LaMotta
Hopkins
Tiger
Fullmer
Giardello
Valdez
Griffith

 

Toney, Hagler, Eubank, Greb, LaMotta.

Crazy to see Toney and LaMotta left off some of these lists.

 

A great chin doesn't get KTFOd in one round by Terry Norris.