Dunno if I can say 'average' but Kuniaki Shibata could seriously come undone if belted early enough. However, if he got in a rhythm he was extremely hard to beat, even for the best of the best.
Average chinned guys are probably guys most don't remember hearing much about. They don't become Champions or even serious Contenders for long. Guys like Jack Roper or Billy Joiner. Usually average chinned guys start getting knocked out when they encounter higher quality opponents, and even sometimes by non-quality guys...IMHO, of course.
I guess your point is that most high-level fighters have a better than average chin or they wouldn't be high level. It guess it's largely a matter of what pool are you drawing from as a basis for comparing chins, a pool of average fighters or a pool of high-level contenders?!
I guess it depends on what we consider “ average. “ so far the vast majority of names listed are world class fighters who were stopped by elite men. To me an average chin is something you’d see with a journeyman who was stopped by club fighter level people. But Michael Nunn being stopped by James Toney or Michael Moorer getting stopped by Foreman isn’t an indication of “ average. “
How in god's name to you figure that? Dempsey was stopped once, very early in his career, and a lot of people think that was a dive!
I’ll throw Danny “Little Red” Lopez into the mix. Often down but he was hard to keep there, and not like Aaron Pryor or Naz someone with balance problems who could get knocked down but bounce back up because they weren’t really hurt. (I always thought the key to beating Danny was to NOT knock him down because he tended to up his game and focus after tasting the canvas.)
I was gonna say Cotto when he was dazed he was dazed ie last round of Floyd fight, against Ricardo Torres and again against Pacquiao. But dude fought well under pressure, was a strong champion mostly rocked by top of the head shots. He showed a granite chin against Margarito first time around
I wouldn't call him chinny until perhaps after Chavez. His chin was great, but it certainly wasn't glass. A weak chinned fighter would never have shipped the sustained beatdown Chavez dished out. What a performance from Chavez, probably his best ever for mine.
I wouldn't argue with him being labeled chinny. His dad was widely considered to have a glass jaw back when he was active too. Unlike his son he had a really strong punch tho.
They can be for sure. KO's against James Marshall and Danny Royster don't help him much tho. Muhunga wasn't all that either.