ATG Middleweight Chin Tier list-The Top Forty

I probably wouldn't make that statement for anyone at 160, just based on the amount of hideously hard punchers who have graced the division, but if there's any pair closest, it'd be these two.

 

Agreed! I vote Titanium for both guys GGG especially due to his longevity at 160.

 

If there was a category above Titanium named Adamantium, that's where I'd put Bert Lytell.

 

I like it. It's cute.

 

Without footage, we only have Lytell's record and contemporary reports to go off.

Never stopped at MW (apart from on cuts), despite facing Archie Moore, Charley Burley, Billy Smith, Jose Basora and Aaron Wade....my impression is that his chin was bona-fide titanium.

 

Yeah, in accordance with titantium for all three.

GGG and Canelo both served to mutually vindicate one another's titanium status, and Lytell navigated through a bear pit largely unscathed back in the 40's.

 

Taking hits from medium punching Canelo and fighting in staftey no risk style against him which resulted in a draw and a loss on the cards doesn't prove GGG is the owner of a titanium beard.

 

Not really because one guy had huge punch power and the other not so much. You can't grade their chins as equal when the power that hit them was not equal

 

Fair, but GGG also shrugged off shots from guys like Lemieux and Jacobs without so much as a second thought. Plus, Canelo's power would have to be considered at least above average. Tough to consider Golovkin to be any less than "iron" given how little he appeared to be affected by opponent's incoming during much of his career.