Amsterdam and Zakman, be so kind as to rate the following chins.

Save for the Kostya stoppage, which was a legit Kostya bomb on the button, to where he was not unconcious and could have even recovered if he had played his cards right, where has Judah been KTFO?

He's been hurt on occassion, but he shows good recovery skills the same.

It took a heavy hitter in Cotto 11 rounds to grind him down, part of it was that Zab was a good protector, the other part is because his chin is underrated, it's 'functional', as in, not a serious deficiency, like his mentality. But it's not 'great', by any means.

Cooney took a good ass whipping from Holmes, I'll judge that as a prime Cooney.

 

Vitali's chin is better than Byrds for sure.

 

Quick Guide to Scale:

Granite - never knocked off feet (i.e. McCall, Chuvalo)

Grade A China - KTFO by light puncher (i.e. Fraudley)

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With that in mind, here are the ratings for the guys you indicated, most of whom fall somwhere within these extremes.

Chris Byrd - iron

Zab Judah - glass

Shannon Briggs - glass

Ricky Hatton - average

Vic Darchinyan - glass

Vitali Klitschko - iron

Prince Naseem Hamed - average

Gerry Cooney - average

Miguel Cotto - shaky

 

Everyone says Vic Darchinyan has a glass chin but he has only been down once in his whole career to a monster of a shot by Nonito Donaire that he walked into.
I dont think Darchinyan's chin is made of glass at all.
Its his defense that lets him down.

 

Near complete agreement.

Vitali's is the best of that bunch and I might have put Hamed a tad higher.

 

Yup. You could make a case for "shaky," but I'm a tough grader. Getting starched by a clubfighter - who had a glass jaw himself, btw - is pretty good indication a fighter doesn't take the greatest shot.:hey

 

I'd say Byrd has a "Good" chin...not iron

 

I agree hes been down enough, and has been knocked out a couple times as well. Zackman- what would you give Sam Peters chin?

 

Zakman we had this discussion before in private message remember?
You said Peter had a better chin than Vitali back then and i said Peter's was not tested as much.
Now Peter has been down 3 times vs a guy you said was feather fisted ... Byrd has also been down plenty of times by now.

They both are a clear step below Vitali.

 

I read on ESB a while back that Vitali was knocked down by two different sparring partners, and knocked out by one them, training for the Rahman fight. I know its just sparring, but it could have something to do with him backing out 1 of the 4 times in not fighting Rahman.