who took the least punishment careerwise?

George Chuvalo took a load of shots but his speech is remarkably good. Joe Calzaghe is the obvious choice here. Pac-Man took more solid shots in his two fights with marquez than Joe has taken in his entire career, pro and amatuer.

 

Marvelous Marvin Hagler. Never took a backwards step & the worst he took was against Hearns & Mugabi, Which he won. & Shouls have gotten the nod over Leonard. Which prompted his early retirement.

 

But in recent interviews, doesn't he appear to speak a little slower? But it is true, he never really took too many shots, great defensive master.

 

Tommy Loughran did not have that great of a chin. Yet he decisioned speedster Jack Sharkey (avenging a knockout defeat), heavy hitting then lightheavyweight Jimmy Braddock, Mickey Walker, Max Baer, and Steve Hamas (avenging the only other stoppage defeat he sustained past age 17). Tommy did not avoid punishment because he took his opponents out quickly. He went the distance 140 times in his career. Nor did he avoid punishment through an advantage height and reach, decisioning taller and longer armed superheavyweights like Vittorio Campolo and Ray Impelletiere (twice). He boxed in an era of six ounce gloves, yet a who's who of legends failed to take him out.

Locche and Canto were other light hitting champions who skillfully avoided punishment despite being on the short side in their weight classifications.

Mike Gibbons deserves a mention here.

 

That's got more to do with smokin' rocks than head knocks.

 

I'd almost be willing to bet money that Sugar Ray Leonard's "youthful" look definitely has something to do with a surgeon's scapel as much as it has to do with not getting uglied up in the ring.

 

So how about Hearns? He's always had a bit of a slur in his speach though regarless of his ring wars which many have mistaken over the years.,give or take .

 

I'm thinking of Lennox Lewis too, two stoppages but neither were from sustained punishment and he didn't take that much in other bouts.

 

....I'd say James J. Jeffries...had fewer fights than most of the others...only real beating was by jack johnson and i doubt if that did much lasting damage...and was in a war with Tom Sharkey, but again, that wouldn't compare to the cumlative punched taken by those with much longer careers.

For the same reasons, I think Jim Corbett belongs in here too.

 

Maybe Benny Leonard?

 

Nah he's slurring a lot now. Listen to a current interview of him, and the watch the Hearns Duran fight. He took a fair bit of punishment over the years.

 

Lennox is pretty spotless. The fat twat hehe.

 

Good post! You could add Joey Maxim to that bunch.