Top 15 Chins at Heavyweight

No Tex Cobb?

Oleksandr Usyk?

Marciano only down twice.

Holyfield?

Jim Jefferies deserves a shout.

Why Bowe? He almost never fought punchers.

 

Where's Max Baer

 

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Randall Cobb?
Larry Holmes?
Joe Joyce out

George Chuvalo No.2

 

Doing a top 20. In chronological order. Primary factor is the amount of times stopped and how many fights they had where they were at risk of being stopped.

Langford
Jeanette
Gibbons
Miske
Dempsey
Tunney
Loughran
Uzcudchin
Risko
Braddock
John Henry Lewis
Pastor
Baksi
Chinvalo
Ali
Jimmy Young
Foreman
Holyfield
Toney
Valuev

Notes
Louis would be included if chin doesn't include getting knocked down.
If you look past the fact Schaaf was killed part of why he was killed is he was too tough for his own good.
Early fighters dominate this list because it's easier to tell whose chin is good when there's more fights they could have been knocked out.

 

McCall certainly had a great chin, but saying he was Numero Uno of all time would be unfair to other heavyweights. In fact it's simply impossible to say. In his whole carreer McCall faced only 3 really big punchers - Lewis, Bruno and Davarryl Williamson. But Williamson had a tendency of fighting very cautious because of his glass jaw. I think Ray Mercer, for example, has faced more great punchers throughout his career. Morrison, Lewis, Cooper, Wlad, Witherspoon also had a hell of a right hand. Lewis landed everything and kicthen sink on him and couldn't put a dent on his chin. The same goes for Morrison, who was enormous puncher. Cooper knocked down granite chinned Holyfield but couldn't hurt Mercer. Wlad was probably the hardest puncher of them all and yes, he knocked down Mercer and eventually stopped him, but Mercer was 41 in that fight and still took tons of punishment before getting stopped. So, I would say, Mercer had even more proven chin than McCall since he faced far more huge punchers

 

It is beyond my capability to do a top 15 but i do know i would have Chuvalo in the top 5

 

Tyson had a really good chin. Looking at his later career and seeing the douglas ko gives the wrong Impression.

Also to me vitali is above foreman. Foreman was taking punishment by holyfield, but vitali was taking everything lewis had including the uppercut. Also vitali was fighting more offensively, giving more options to be countered. Foreman wasn't as offensive, still more mindful of defense while attacking, managing everything from stamina to defense well and in balance. I think it is easier to take punches with that foundation.

Vitali just had a crazy ability to take punches.

 

Andy Ruiz, all 15 of them.

 

There might be several journeymen who didn't have the talent or skill to make it but had a iron chin.

Anyway what about Larry Holmes as a OM?. Dropped 7/8 times in 75 fights at heavyweight fighting till 52 is pretty solid stuff and Holmes was hit plenty.

 

My top 15 in no order.

Oliver McCall
Marion Wilson
George Chuvalo
Muhammad Ali
Larry Holmes
George Foreman
Vitali Klitschko
David Tua
Tex Cobb
Evander Holyfield
Ray Mercer
Filip Hrgovic
Rocky Marciano
Oleksandr Usyk
Jimmy Young

Honourable mentions.

Nikolai Valuev, Pinklon Thomas, Jim Jefferies, Riddick Bowe, Mike Tyson, Joe Joyce.

 

Mariusz Wach
Kubrat Pulev

 

Wach's chin was great before it went.