Obviously it would be someone who went 0-4 with four first-round knockout losses or something like that.
If Moorer has a bad chin because he was stopped past him prime by Tua in the first round then Archie Moore has a bad chin because he was wacked out in 1 round by Leonard Morrow
Actually it is really. I would rather be knocked out by heavyweights who can punch when I am a light heavyweight then get knocked down and out by people in my same weight class who are unknowns.
Hard to say. It takes a hell of a person to take a real punch from a real boxer, and many of the people criticized for having a "bad chin" like Wlad, took punches from absolute tanks many times without crumbling. I think James Kirkland had a tendency to take ridiculously hard shots from everyone because he was so square and didn't have good balance. So he would get his head ripped off any time he wasn't punching with both hands, and sometimes during as well. Seldon fell over off a few nothing shots but I think he was a dive-taker and if I recall correctly, it had been proven to some extent. Amir Khan, I think also had an issue with his stance and fundamentals more than his chin necessarily. He was built like a cobra bag and fought incredibly tall and upright, and pulled straight back or stood up into some hell punches. He took a whole round of getting beaten around the ring by Maidana and recovered. Floyd Patterson, very square. Took shots walking or ducking into them, left his feet often while punching or moving. Was crushed by hard punchers. I think he's not a bad call if you're talking about a guy who would get knocked out in a hypothetical fight. I think "you can't put a broken egg back together" theory applies to punch resistance often. Having a good chin is having a fresh chin. A lot of guys who took shots and kept going had clever ways of not taking full impact. Hearns had a solid chin, he just got destroyed by weight draining and the damage he took thereafter. If he had an extra day to rehydrate, his brain wouldn't have been dried out and he wouldn't have been as susceptible to damage. He must have cut the most weight of anybody I've ever seen with same day weigh ins. I also think he was damaged badly from his first two stoppage losses and that kind of put him at a disadvantage for punch resistance thereafter. Roy aged overnight and was a shell of himself getting knocked out, I don't know if I can really say that real RJJ had a bad chin at all. It's hard for me to recall many times where it's inconceivable to me that the fighter reacted from a punch where it wasn't a dive. Usually people go down because they got punched hard.
