Which fighters have the 10 greatest chins among all time top 50 heavyweights? Only include fighters you regard as an all time top 50 heavyweight. Mine (no order): Vitali Usyk Ali Foreman Holmes Tyson (Mike) Tua Mercer Liston Holyfield
First I summarized the results on this topic: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/top-10-hw-chins-of-all-time.712888/ How would I set my topic: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/mount-rushmore-of-hw-chins.713014/
I think he’s asking for something different here, though — the Cobbs and Chuvalos aren’t top-50 ATG heavyweights. He’s wanting the best 10 chins among the best 50 heavies.
Everyone’s list is their own, but to me it’s stretching a top 50 like Reed Richards to include Ray Mercer and David Tua. I know for me I would have Ali, Holmes and Foreman in there. I’ll have to think on who the other seven are.
That's the thing would Mercer, Tua, be considered top 50 Heavyweights ? I'm not sure about that. James J Jeffries deserves to be on this list aswell apparently he had a very good chin.
Ahh, I apologize; I didn't understand the topic well. Hmmm, well first I would need to have some sort of list of valid TOP 50, then choose 10, but I'll try... Mohammad Ali George Foreman Vitali Klitschko Evander Holyfield Larry Holmes James J. Jeffries John L. Sullivan Jack Dempsey Riddick Bowe Rocky Marciano Honorable mentions Tyson Fury Surely there will be better Top 10 than my Top 10 P.S. I was in a hurry to write the list as quickly as possible
Its a good list this is mine. Muhammad Ali George Foreman Mike Tyson Oleksandr Usyk James J Jeffries Vitali Klitschko Larry Holmes Evander Holyfield Rocky Marciano Jimmy Young Neither Tua or Mercer were rated in McGrain's top 50 Heavyweight list where as Young was rated in the top 40 so I'll put Young in there he fought some huge punchers in his career Shavers, Lyle, Cooney, Foreman.
Joe Jeanette (Absolute stone cold lock on both counts) Max Baer Vitali Klitschko Jim Jeffries Evander Holyfield Muhammad Ali Larry Holmes George Foreman Bob Pastor Riddick Bowe Pastor and Bowe surprised me, making it in, tbh. But they seem to me to be as good as anyone else in my top fifty in this regard. Locks would be JJ, Vitali, Jeffries, Ali.
My top 20 HW chins in chronological order are Jennette Tommy Gibbons Miske Dempsey Tunney Loughran Braddock Stribling Uzcudin Risko John Henry Lewis Ali Chinvalo Foreman Jimmy Young Holyfield Bowe Valuev Tyson Fury Usyk Stribling, Uzcudchin, Risko, Chinvalo, Valuev, Tyson Fury and Usyk are not in my top 50.
