Carl Froch as well, he seems to get wobbled in almost every fight, yet carries a Chuvalo-like reputation.
Amen to this.:good Just recently a thread came up on here about Nas vs Pacquiao and I mentioned that Nas's chin wasn't the best and certainly not good enough to compete with the likes of Manny and I got those exact same bull**** "off balance" arguments. In fact one clown claimed each and every Hamed knockdown was due to balance and that he had an awesome chin until I posted the Daniel Alecia knockdown which was a perfectly set Hamed getting hurt by a right and cleanly floored by another follow up right.And Alecia was but a novice journeyman. Needless to say the "Hamed had a great chin" guy didn't bother to respond to that damning footage.
Right on. Like many overweight fighters, old Foreman could absorb punishment and, with his improved sense of mission and relaxed mind-set, survived some well-placed shots to the jaw, but I too see no need to get excited. In his prime, he did not take single right hands upstairs well at all (Ali, Lyle). Say what you will about exhaustion in Zaire, but Joe Frazier was tattooed with many more --and harder-- shots from Ali without falling once over 41 rounds. Foreman couldn't last eight.
Sam Langford ,a good chin, but not granite,even though he was battling a lot of big men, being floored over two dozen times, and stopped 9 times is not, "Chuvaloesque".
That video was made because people like yourself were underrating his chin. Lewis would never had achieved what he did without a decent chin.
Marciano's chin is a bit overrated if you look hard at his competition. It's still very good but it's not the "chin of steel" that everyone makes it out to be.
but who has the better chin? the man that takes a hit flexs his neck and takes the next 5 hits with out dropping. or the man that takes one hit and drops so he dosnt have to take the next 5. in my opinion the best thing about marcianos chin was that he knew when he should stand and take the punches and when to drop so to avoid the onslaught after the first punch.
Considering he was down twice (from memory) he clearly didn't feel the need to go down to avoid punishment too often. Taking into account his style Rocky's chin deserves to be classed as granite imo.
Froch definitely has a pretty good chin - he's been in with some good punchers.... but it's more his conditioning that gets him through. He's in the Ricky Hatton category for me. Not the Clinton Woods/Chris Eubank one.