Best chin around in the HWs

You simply cannot have had as many fights and fought as many punchers and KO punchers as Usyk has without going down or getting stopped unless you have an excellent chin.


There are numerous fighters ranked highly in the P4P top 10 who've barely fought any punchers at all, especially ones their own size, and on the rare occasions they have they've been dropped or hurt or hurt by light to average punchers.

The reason Usyk has achieved everything he has amateur and pro, and his achievements are vast and highly impressive and they've all been achieved the hard way on the road or in his opponent's backyards sans all the deck stacking and advantage that so many others enjoy, is because he's not only a special fighter but he's also a very well rounded one who is strong in virtually all, if not all, departments sans KO power and that includes having an excellent beard.

 

Yes it's a different ballgame when you're facing world champions and top contenders your own size, bigger or much bigger than it is when you're facing smaller/much smaller ones you hold big physical advantages over. Completely different.

 

AJ sports a KO 84%, has stopped all but two of his victims and they're HWs not CWs, and he's floored everyone he's fought sans Usyk and Parker

Gassiev is one of the sport's top 3 most devastating punchers and there are many HWs, and I mean ones who've shared a ring with the best and most destructive HWs out there, on record or who have told trainers and fighters he's the hardest puncher they've shared a ring with and there are also numerous people within the trade who say they've seen the video footage of him knocking out numerous top HWs in the gym.


Ben Davison has said that many HWs have told him that Gassiev is the hardest puncher they've shared a ring with

Chris Arreola

“Murat Gassiev – that mother****** hits hard,” heavyweight contender Chris Arreola said of his experience while training with the Russian banger in Big Bear, California.

The two worked in the same gym space for their recent training camps. Arreola was preparing for his December 12 showdown with Travis Kauffman, a fight he won by split decision. The final outcome was disputed, but Arreola’s energy at fight’s end was attributed to the work he put in during his time in Big Bear, also crediting Gassiev as one of the fighters who pushed him in the gym.

“He caught me in the ribs during one sparring session, I just never been hit like that before,” Arreola admitted. “This was a camp I was already determined to leave as a trim and ready fighter, but I knew I couldn’t half-ass it when he was there. Whenever I saw him in the gym when I arrived, I was like “F***, not that guy again.” But he makes you work in the gym, he makes you a better fighter.”

“In a boxing fight the hardest puncher would have to be Vitali Klitschko. He’s just a strong thudding punch,” Arreola said to ES News Reporting. ”In sparring, hands down, by far is Murat [Gassiev]. That man is [the hardest puncher]. That mother [expletive] hits HARD. He hits hard! The thing is I’m sparring him and I see the punch coming and I’m like, ‘NO.’ Boom! The crazy thing about him [Gassiev]; you see it coming. You can’t get out of it, and you get hit and it hurts BAD. That’s with gloves and head gear 18 ounce gloves too,” Arreola said.

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And this from Gassiev's trainer

“The power he has shown me in the gym sparring against [heavyweights Dominic] Breazeale, Charles Martin, Gerald Washington, Chris Arreola, is very real,” Sanchez said. “All those guys, he’s been able to dominate and hurt. Once we get him to the heavyweight division and stabilize him at 225, 230, and put some muscle on those pounds, he’ll be very effective.''
-- Abel Sanchez

Briedis is a massive puncher. He sparked a 250lb Charr out cold on his face with a single devastating uppercut, something which none of the HWs Charr has fought have come close to replicating. That was about as spectacular a KO as KOs get.

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Chisora carries huge power in that overhand right of his, especially since he started taking training more seriously in recent years and has worked really hard on his S&C

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Majidov is a massive puncher

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Ditto Nistor

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Ditto Joyce

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Bellew is a huge puncher too

He's 10-1- (8KOs) since moving up from LHW

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He has a nasty left hook. He's always had one

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Glowacki, Huck, Hunter are all very big/big punchers

Even Witherspoon is a big puncher

 

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Well you should read it

And to make the claim his chin is untested is beyond ridiculous

He has an excellent chin and the fact he's never been dropped by a head shot or even wobbled in 370 fights am and pro combined whilst having fought as many massive or big punchers as he has confirms that