Do you think the thread-starter would have mentioned Camacho if it wasn't? Everybody in this thread apart from you understood it was P4P.
he should have said p4p, anyway chuvalo still ranks pretty high even if it is p4p.i saw him take a boxers best shot and never even blink his eyes i'm just saying mention it,don't assume
A couple that come straight to mind are.... firstly Tony Zale - lord knows how he remained concious taking some of the smashes he was absorbing again and again against Marcel Cerdan????? Another that comes straight to mind is Battling Nelson - totally freakish durability and refusal to accept the existance of anything like pain!! Muhammad Ali also had a GREAT chin too - some people might argue that he might not be in the league of some of the guys so far mentioned but at times when watching some of his fights I have been going "I don't know HOW he is able to take those kind of shots??!!"
U must mean the greatest chin amongst good/great boxers Theres many boxers out there with boxing carreers only because they can take hits.. Like the fat funny danish Brian Nielsen who actually took Tyson punches in 7 rounds (clean hits)...
As long as Chuvalo gets automatic mention in these threads, his great Canadian rival Bob Cleroux ought to also be acknowledged at some point. Zora Folley had his number (Chuvalo's too, for that matter), but Bob won his closely contested trilogy with George, and pulled off a late career comeback upset over Cleveland Williams. Just 25 when Folley originally retired him in their rematch. I can't find any report of him ever having been dropped. That Cleroux and Chuvalo went the 12 round limit three times says much about the toughness of both. (Each had nearly 70% KOs.) If Billy Joiner hadn't finally retired him in a major upset, he would have gotten a shot at Jimmy Ellis in 1969. (Instead, Ellis remained inactive that year, which did him no favors in his unification with Frazier.) Cleroux is perhaps the greatest "what if" mystery of Canadian heavyweight boxing. Had he trucked on after the 1963 Folley rematch, or beaten Joiner as expected, how much better known might he have become? Could Chuvalo have regained the Canadian title again with Cleroux in the way? George got shots at Terrell and Ali despite losses to Patterson and Corletti. Did Bob miss out on some major 60s title action by not sticking around through the midst of the decade?
Im surprised I don't see Kid Gavilan up here. Never stopped in 144 pro bouts... Its gotta be Kid Gavilan Other iron chin names Lamotta Ali Frazier JC Chavez Chuvalo Foreman Marquez Marciano Gatti Camacho Laporte Monzon Duran De La Hoya Robinson Hagler Fullmer
Hagler. Never knocked down as a pro, ametuer or in sparring. And never seriously hurt as a pro. Maybe stunned a few times, but never even in trouble of going down...