Bull**** opinion. Only Tyson could knock Holmes out.(Some other Holmes opponents: prime Cooney(hard puncher)Smith(hard p.),Shavers,prime Spinks,prime Holyfield,prime Mercer,prime Mccall, Berbick,Norton,Butterbean(hard puncher and Larry was very old),prime Witherspoon, Nielsen,Cobb,Snipes etc. 75 fights 579 rounds only one ko loss by Tyson. Who were vitali's most dangerous opponent? The 37 years old fat Lewis and some chickens like kevin johnson,38 years old Briggs,fat out of shape 38 years old C. Sanders,Byrd etc. Plus vitali klitschko had a coward running away style. Don't fool us with your klitschko propaganda! Are you an idiota? Holmes' chin is top 3 at least. Shame!
Let's talk about hating:huh 1) It wasn't lame kick 2) Everyone who has brain knows that average kick is much, much harder shot that average punch. You can't deny this. 3) You said that Larry Holmes (one of my favourite boxers, by the way) has one of 3 best chins in HW history. Do you know that Larry Holmes was knocked out by Nick Wells as an amateur TWO times, both at age 22. in 1st fight Wells KO'd Holmes in 3 rds, in the 2nd fight Wells knocked Holmes out cold in 1st round. Vitali was 20 y.o. amateur too, when he was knocked out by kick. Double standarts here?
Bit strong calling the 1977 version of Ali 'zombie' Okay,he was n't the fighter that he was three years earlier when he beat George Foreman,but he could still dig deep in the trenches. Otherwise he'd never have beaten Earnie on that night
You might want to rewatch Tyson-Ruddock (I & II) and Tyson-Bruno before keeping Iron Mike's chin out of your top 5.
Jeffries for his day, he faced top competition early in career without much of a learning curve, had a style where he didn't avoid many punches, and he fought several GREAT punchers. Never even knocked down until his ghost arrived 6 years into retirement.
The Max Baer who took dozens and dozens of dynamite laden combination blows from young Joe Louis,and remained on his feet, til he thought "what's the use?", had the greatest chin of all the heavyweights IMO. Ali had a good chin but he had a much better defense than Max Baer..If the amazing powerful combinations Joe Louis landed on Ali's jaw as it did on Maxie's chin, Joe Louis would have never survived that onslaught as long as Baer did IMO...
always good to have some chin talk at ESB...of recent champs of course mccall , V klitschko, past got to mention Holmes Foreman, ali. I dont kno about the whole walker dropping vitali myth
i agree . baer had best chin since his time. i tend to go with jeffries as best ever. dempsey , ali were up there and i wouldnt mind having there chin to say the least but i think baer and jeffries were a step up
Of course I meant to post,"If the amazing powerful combinations Joe Louis landed on Ali's jaw as it did on Maxie's chin, Ali would have never survived that onslaught"...
Absolutely. Baer had, without question, one of the best chins in HW history. He had like 84 fights and was counted out only once, against Joe Louis. And as you point out, he took the count by choice, fully conscious. Baer's chin was true iron.