best chin

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  1. jimmy1991

    jimmy1991 Active Member Full Member

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    who has the best chin in boxing today?
     
  2. FROST

    FROST Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Oliver McCall
     
  3. joito3

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    Shane Mosley
    Bernard Hopkins
     
  4. scurlaruntings

    scurlaruntings ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    Even though im not a fan JC gets an honourable mention.
     
  5. Maxmomer

    Maxmomer Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Mosley, Baldomir, Tua.
     
  6. ozziebattler

    ozziebattler Shadow Boxer Full Member

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    Its Oliver McCall..

    The blokes chin is granite.

    I always spin out when i watch Lewis 2..even though he is having a mental breakdown in the ring the bloke just doesnt even seemed bothered by Lewis's blows.
     
  7. pijo

    pijo Feed the Pope Full Member

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    Baldomir and calzaghe
     
  8. Bummy Davis

    Bummy Davis Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Vitali Klitschko, I seen him get hit flush by Sanders and Lewis and not go down, and I mean FLUSH
     
  9. heerko koois

    heerko koois Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Hatton....he can take 200 shots from Mayweather for 12 rounds or more..
     
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  11. Polymath

    Polymath Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Toney
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  12. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    Yes, he has a great chin, but that was partly due to Lewis not committing himself to really teeing off on McCall. Lewis, as you know, has an alternate style to the power punching monster that he normally is, and that is to tend to be a bit cautious, like he was against McCall, Holyfield both times, and Tua. An argument could be made that for the first six or seven rounds against Tyson he was committing himself to being a bit methodical, and was in no big hurry to blow out Mike until he lowered the boom in round eight. If he had attacked any of these men with the destructive, bombs away attitude he displayed against Rudduck, Botha, or Golota, he would have had stopped these men. His naturally cautious, conservative, chess player mentality comes when he is at his best and prepared for an opponent. It's this mode that would have done him good it he ever had fought Ali. In the case of Oliver McCall, specifically, when Oliver started falling apart mentally, and started that crying stuff, Lewis could have, or should have reverted to the other, bomber type mode, and Mr. McCall, I assure you, would have gone down, if anything, from the total shock and surprise of an unseen bomb connecting on his unprotected chin. Maybe even the great McCall would have ironically, been seriously damaged by being totally unprepared for a "sucker punch" like that. Credit Lewis also, for being possibly too much of a sportsman for a cheap shot like that. As Sugar Ray Leonard has said "the most devastating punches are the ones you don't see coming".
     
  13. iceman

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    Lennox is that you?:huh
     
  14. Kegsy

    Kegsy Lights Out Full Member

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    Was impressed by Jesse Feliciano's chin. That guy can take a beating & come back for more.
     
  15. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    It wouldn't have taken just Lennox Lewis, but any of the top heavyweights could have capitalized on that situation in that fight. Here you had the probably never to be repeated occurance of a fighter suddenly becoming distracted from the fight at hand by bursting into tears. Now McCall has a legendary set of whiskers, and no one can deny that, but COME ON NOW!!! ANYONE, walking around in the ring, sobbing his heart out, not even looking at his opponent, who wants to do him physical harm would be able to withstand a sudden shot to those unprotected, unsuspecting whiskers, not McCall, Chuvalo, LaMotta, not ANY legendary "chin" of boxing history. To be prepared for a punch, and be able to withstand it, as was the custom of the previously mentioned great "chins", you have to see the punch coming to some degree, at least. A totally unexpected shot out of nowhere against a completely unprepared chin can be devastating, just as Ray Leonard once said. You guys probably think that if someone was holding McCall's arms back from behind that he would just shrug off any punch landed on him, like Superman.