British Heavyweights known to be chinny?

Tommy Farr had an excellent chin.

 

Bit of an American myth.
Farr and Bugner had decent chins.
Cockell was respectable.

 

That is a myth, look at his record. Cooper's problem was getting knocked out and outpointed. From September 1956 onwards, only Ali stopped him on cuts. In that time Cooper was Dq'd once, outpointed three times and knocked out four times...

 

Problem is for every Farr and to a degree Bugner, there were plenty of Dunn's, Gardner's and Currie's...

 

the British press was hardest on itself for criticism, it's just the British way, slagging oneanother, having a go and so on, it is often passed off as fun or having a laugh, but thats only true in 'close' circles. We Brits rip people to bits, because there is a very real disregard and willful jealousy and contempt for others.

Its all very strange too, because Nationlly there is no greater support for all things English, but privately there is a very real and pugnant ill towards oneanother, years of struggle & poverty and Class division.

anyway that said, there is a point to this, we did ourselfs No Favour, so that Yanks had freepress to follow suit. But the very serious FORCED upright British fighting style was the main killer for our Bigmen, as I said years ago.

It was FORCED to fight 'upright' because a Foul or Lowblow was INSTANT DQ and British Pride wouldn't give into dropping that rule till the 60s I think it was, even though there were lots of people vying for the American Way, accidental was forgivable, and anything more was a points deduction, the way it always should have been.

our Bigmen were wasted for not being aloud to fight as rugged or mix it without a certain 'built in' restrain (FEAR), in case of DQ. So spend a career like this and go Stateside and get hammered, Britain eventually seen the scense in the American Way and changed the Rule.

But British Pride truly affected our fighters for years in this regard, before we gave in and changed it.

 

It may have begun with Bombadier Billy Wells, who was chinny and of course Phaintin' Phil Scott wasn't too sturdy either especially when he wasn't writing on the canvas screaming 'foul'. These two may have started the whole thing.

 

Gary Mason had a great chin

 

I agree with scartissue, Bombadier Billy Wells was probably the originator.

 

was he bleeding in those fights though (I really am asking, i dont know).

it makes it easier to get knocked out if you have blood running into your eyes and you dont see punches coming..and of course that would make it easier to be outpointed.

 

Some fights he was cut, the is little disputing his wafer thin skin. But Cooper and his team developed tactics to deal with the problem. Cooper was often cut in British title fights (the Walker bout being a famous instance) but always (58-71) won. But when he did step up to the next level, as I stated previously, he was often found out, cut or not.

 

Bugner was Hungariam and Lewis, Mason and Bruno were not ethnically British. Farr had a good (celtic?) chin though.