Best chin around in the HWs

Fury? He's been dropped by Pjalic and Cunnigham.

It's probably between Parker, Joyce and Ruiz.

 

Still might be Wach.... Seeing Wach finally be dropped was akin to witnessing the most depressing moments in cinema or reading the most gut wrenching moments in literature- the finest chin ever crafted was finally cracked after absorbing inhuman amounts of punishment over the years it was a sad sight for HW fanatics who appreciated Wach for what he is. If the stone masons of legend were to take him back to their workshop and restore it then it's likely still very servicable, but ultimately not the same.

 

and from a nation infamous for it's glassy HW chins!

 

I can't tell if Usyk has a solid chin just because all of his quality fights were against cruisers. True, those people are heavy enough to smash your face, but still, they're up to 90.7 kg. while the heavyweights are more often above 105, some a lot more than that. So I am not saying his chins is not good, but can't tell how good it is.

Joyce appears to have a solid chin in the pro boxing, but hasn't really been tested by a serious puncher. So I doubt how solid really is looking back to his two knockouts when amateur. True those stoppages in the amateurs are sometimes wrong, but there're a lot of weird things under those rules there. The fact is he got dropped with a head gear even.

Fury has his knockdowns, can't deny, but when one is that tall is easier to drop. But it's all legit, he was down several times. Still, most of them appear to having caused him nothing serious aside from the ones against Wilder in their third fight. The one in te first actually shows this man has an insane will or is hard to knock down, so I won't tell his chin is granite, but he's hard to get knocked out, it's a fact so far. Wilder's cross is a serious test for everyone, regardless of the fact is Wilder a good or a bad boxer.

Ruiz - shortly: yes, very hard-head.

Makhmoudov - can't tell yet, but if he has a decent chin will truly be a monster to face.

Parker - tested and proven to be solid. The beating he took from Joyce was something that would've knocked out people way earlier than Parker.

Zhang - I don't know why is that guy here... Better put Pulev for the time he was younger and used to be a hard guy.

Hrgovic - the grumpy expression on his face seems not to work anymore, the guy was pathetic against Zhang, so has I'd tell he's not hard at all. Imagine him taking punches from AJ, Joyce, Whyte, Chisora even...

 

The thing about Joyce is not that he can withstand a full on shot.

it is the fact that punches don't even back him up in slightest or even make him check his stride.

Terminator like.

 

Joyce whiskers are most impressive out there albeit caveated against level of opposition.

 

Here what you are saying but in fairness Dubois is a big dangerous puncher and Parker, whilst not being the biggest of hitters, was landing flush right hands......... Joyce doesn't even blink he just walks straight through everything.

 

Do you think that knockdown on Hrgovic had something to do with his chin?

 

Being good enough to evade dangerous punches doesn't mean you can take a lot of them. Of course, that's what a fighter aims - hit and not being hit and for most of the time Usyk did it very high level. But that's different from how hard his head is.

 

Could be so. Everyone is gifted differently, some can take punches and I mean the hardest ones, without even care, others have different gifts... Others can escape most of the punches. But I won't look at boxing under some mathematical principle like 1+1=2.

About one being knocked down or not, I don't mean Usyk in particular: there're some who's been down and retired undefeated, there're others who's never been down, but aren't undefeated. As I said, it's not like 1+1=2. But saying all of this, I don't mean anything against Usyk. I just avoid completely glorify whoever fighter (athlete, outside of boxing and martial arts) it is.