5 best chins in boxing

Oliver McCall is still fighting

 

Get Toney and Margarito off there. Toney was put down by a Jab from Sam Peter and Margarito was brutally and embarrassingly KOed by Mosley. There are other fighters currently who have not been knocked down or out.

 

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Toney being the former middle-weight James Toney? And you're complaining that he got put down at heavyweight by one of the biggest raw punches in the division? I don't remember the incident and whether it was a jab, but so what? Clottey got put down by a jab and he has an iron chin aswell.

Toney has never been stopped from 160 to heavyweight which is a testament not only of his defensive skills but of his chin aswell. And Margarito, as much as I don't like him, he's proven his chin time and again. Look at the Pacquiao fight, absolute iron.

Yes he got stopped by Mosley - because he let the biggest puncher in the division tee-off on him and he was taking crunching left-hooks all the time and Mosley was bouncing the biggest right-hands off his head all-night and Margarito was smiling. Margarito's defence lead to him getting stopped because he let Mosley land flush power punches in combinations, and he didn't roll any of them. The fact that he took as many huge punches at the finish as he did with his chin up in the air and not rolling any of them if anything proved his chin moreso.

If you insist on being a chin-checker, at least be a good one. The fact that you don't know enough about boxing to discuss a wide-range of subjects and are therefore forced to discuss only punch-resistance is bad enough, let alone the fact you can't even do the latter well.

 

McCall
Tua
Mosley
Klitschko (Vitali for those of you wondering which one I mean)
Hopkins

 

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Iron Chinned fighters don't get brutally and embarrassingly KOed period. IT IS WHY THEY HAVE IRON CHINS!! Do you understand that? Those punches from Mosley would not have done **** to someone like Jake LaMotta (Yes, I realize they are different weight classes it is just an example) look at the 22 punch combination LaMotta took from SRR.

I have been watching Boxing more years than you have been alive, I talk with people in Boxing all the time. Margarito has a good Chin no doubt but it is not one of the elite in the sport because if it was he would not have been knocked out by Mosley. :hi:

EDIT: and Peter has the most overrated power of any fighter I have ever seen the guy has not KOed ANYONE that was worth a ****. Legit punchers can KO the elite opposition or upper echelon opposition they fight.

 

Holyfield still deserves a mention, so does Penalosa and so does Johnson. They all proved there chins in the past and are still going at their old age and taking punches and not getting stopped or hurt.

 

Mikkel Kessler should be there.

Never been down in 43 pro fights including 11 straight worldchampionship fights or 16 if counting international titles as well.

Not many fighters can claim that.

 

Chins like LaMotta's, Chuvalo's and LaPorte's don't come around all the time. You can't rank everybodies chin on the basis of that. LaMotta was also under-rated defensively and rolled a lot of punches well.

Knockouts happen in boxing, even iron-chinned fighters like Margarito get knocked out occasionally when they take a sustained 9 round beating from the biggest puncher in there division and don't roll any punches what so ever.

You are basically saying that there aren't any huge punchers in the sport on that basis. It's like saying Duran wasn't iron-chinned because he got knocked out brutally by Hearns. So you're basically dismissing Hearns power. Hell, you're dismissing Foreman's power, Shaver's power, Louis' power because you're saying that if a fighter ever gets knocked out, they aren't iron-chinned. I guess Foreman and Louis knocked out a bunch of glass-jawed bums then. atsch

 

Vitaly Klitschko
Tomasz Adamek
Chris Arreola
Shannon Briggs
Antonio Margarito

 

wow. youre not very smart are u? a ******ed man can watch boxing for 50 years and he still wont truly understand the nature of the sport. thats what we have here.

 

Jesus man you can't even grasp this. No wonder. On a sliding scale a LaMotta or Chuvalo would be a "10". Someone like Amir Khan or Roy Jones would be a "1". The guy posted a thread about the top 5 Chins in Boxing. There are SEVERAL other fighters he could have put in the list in place of Margarito and Toney that haven't been brutally KOed or knocked down in their career. And how you get where getting KOed by a Foreman or Shaver's (who is another guy that didn't KO many of the elite fighters he fought) makes you have a Glass Jaw is stupid.

You are one of the people on here that refuse to acknowledge that Glass Jaws exist in Boxing. You don't even understand the premise of ranking a Chin in the first place and you are trying to lecture me. I said Margarito had a very good Chin but under strict legit criteria it IS NOT one of the best in Boxing right now. Do you understand this? It is very simple.

 

The Pocket Rocket Wayne Mccullough